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Featured placements and ads — a buyer's guide

NavHub's homepage is the single highest-intent surface on the site — visitors arriving there are actively looking for a tool to solve a problem. Featured placements and banner ads let you put your product in front of them with a one-time payment. This guide explains exactly what you are buying.

Featured placement pins one of your published tools to the Featured rail at the top of the homepage. The mechanics:

  • You buy a 7-day or 30-day window, priced once — no subscription, no auto-renewal.
  • At checkout you pick which of your published tools gets the slot.
  • Payment runs through Creem; as soon as the order settles, the tool appears in the rail for the full window.
  • When the window closes, the listing simply returns to its normal position. Renewing starts a fresh purchase rather than silently charging you.

Because the slot links to your existing listing, conversion depends on the listing itself. Before buying, make sure your screenshots are current and your description answers "who is this for" in the first sentence.

If you want to promote something that is not itself a directory listing — a companion product, a newsletter, a launch campaign — banner placements are the better fit. Two positions are available:

  1. Home banner — the widest surface, above the fold.
  2. Sidebar — persistent visibility next to the tool grid.

Every creative is reviewed by a human before it goes live. We check that the image renders correctly at the target size, that the destination URL matches what the banner shows, and that the content would not embarrass either of us. Most reviews finish within a business day; if a creative is rejected you can upload a revised one from the Ads console, or contact us about a refund.

Managing everything from the console

Both products live in your dashboard: purchases under Billing, ad creatives and their review status under Ads. Statuses are explicit — pending review, active, expired, rejected — so you always know whether your window is running and when it ends.

A note on trust

Sponsored slots are labeled, and paid placement never changes an organic ranking or a review verdict. If a product is not good enough to be listed for free, it will not become good enough because it paid us — the money buys visibility, not endorsement.

Ready to try it? Open the pricing page, pick a window, and your tool can be featured within the hour.