About
rankfight.lol runs two leaderboards, and the difference between them is the whole site. The sponsored board is bought: the highest weekly bid sits at #1 and holds it until someone pays more or stops paying. There is no algorithm, no voting, and no editorial process in it. The Arena is earned: products ranked by what they actually sold this week, read by us from their payment provider, and nothing in it is for sale at any price.
Keeping them apart is the point. A board that mixes paid and earned rows and labels neither is the thing this site exists to not be.
What “verified” means here
It means we read the number from the payment provider ourselves, with a read-only key the maker can revoke. Nothing typed into a form, uploaded, or screenshotted is verified, and won't be shown as if it were. If we can't read it, we don't claim it.
The Arena isn't open yet — connections open in the next phase. Until then the Arena block on the front page is empty on purpose. An empty earned board is more honest than a pre-filled one, and there is nothing to pay for in it either way.
Why the sponsored board charges weekly instead of once
Boards like this normally sell a rank permanently, which means every position sold is revenue that can never be sold again. It works brilliantly for about two days and then the money stops, because nobody has a reason to pay twice.
Charging weekly fixes the arithmetic but creates a different problem: a rented rank is ephemeral, and something ephemeral is hard to brag about. So each week's final standings are frozen and published at a permanent URL. You rent the position and keep the record. Holding #1 for a given week stays true forever.
What a rank gets you
Clicks. That's the whole product. Every listing publishes how many clicks it has delivered and what those clicks cost, so you can judge the price against the same number you'd use for any other traffic channel instead of guessing.
It does not get you a backlink. Paid links are marked rel="sponsored" here, which is the correct way to mark them, and it means no ranking signal reaches your site. Directories that advertise paid placement as an SEO backlink are either mistaken or hoping you don't check.
Losing a rank
You get an email the moment someone pushes you down, with the exact price to take the position back. You can also set a ceiling and let the board defend your rank automatically, raising your bid by the minimum step until it reaches your limit. Both exist because a rank you can lose without noticing is a rank you quietly abandon.
Chip-ins and categories
You don't have to own a listing to move it. Anyone can chip in a few dollars to push any listing up the board — the money counts on top of its bid the moment it settles, and expires at the listing's next weekly renewal. Chip-ins can buy someone a week at #1; the owner is never billed for them.
Every listing also belongs to a category, picked from the link itself rather than from a dropdown, and each category board ranks the same bids against a smaller field. Fourth overall can still be first in AI — a smaller hill, but yours.
Read the rules, claim a rank, or connect your sales.