The whole rulebook

Rank is the bid.

Everything below is a consequence of that one sentence. It is a public board: what each listing paid is printed beside it, and every click it receives is counted where anyone can see.

How rank is decided

What puts one listing above another?: The amount paid, highest first. There is no quality score, no editorial pass, no engagement signal and no algorithm — the number is the ranking. RankItUp carries no advertising of its own, takes no cut of what a listing earns, and asks for no API key.
What does a bid have to be?: Whole dollars only, starting at $1 and moving in steps of $1. What ranks a listing is its standing bid: the total of every payment made for it. That total holds indefinitely — it changes only when the listing pays again.
Do I have to aim for the top?: No. Any amount at or above the floor buys the rank that amount is worth on the day. Most listings are not competing for first place; they are buying a visible position and the clicks that come with it.
What happens if two listings pay the same?: The earlier payment stays ahead. Matching somebody's bid never displaces them — passing them requires actually paying more.
Does the board ever run out of room?: No. It has no fixed number of positions and grows as listings join, so a listing is never pushed off to make space for a newer one. The only thing that moves you is somebody paying past you, and even then you keep your place on the board.

Raising an existing listing

How do I climb?: Submit the same website or @handle again and name what you want to add. Payments accumulate, so you pay the difference rather than the whole figure: a listing standing at $4 gets past one standing at $7 by adding $4, which puts it at $8. The smallest you can add is $1.
Does my old bid count towards the new one?: Yes — all of it. A listing's standing bid is everything it has paid, added together, so nothing you spend is ever spent twice. Being outbid costs you the position but not the money: it stays on the listing, and taking the position back only costs the gap.

What you can list

What counts as a listing?: A product or company website, or an X @handle. Give it a name of up to 40 characters and a single line of up to 120 describing what it does.
Are two apps on the same platform separate listings?: Yes. App Store, Play Store, GitHub and similar links are identified by their full path, so two products hosted on the same platform hold separate positions and separate bids.
What is not allowed?: Chat and invite links — Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Messenger, Signal and the like — because the board is for products and profiles, not group chats. Sexual content of any kind, including NSFW and adult platforms. Link shorteners, which are resolved to whatever they point at before anything is published. Anything illegal, and anything that ships malware.
What happens to my tracking parameters?: They are removed. Query strings are stripped from every listing link, so affiliate, referral and campaign URLs will not survive submission. Two submissions that differ only by their parameters are treated as the same listing rather than as a second row.

After you pay

When does the rank become mine?: When the payment completes. Nothing is held for review and nothing is queued — the board reorders itself as soon as the money clears.
What is public?: Your listing, the amount it paid, and the number of clicks it has received. Clicks are counted through RankItUp and sent straight on to the address you submitted, minus the query string.
Can a listing be removed?: Only for breaking the rules above. Beyond that, the amount paid is the only thing that decides where a listing sits and how long it stays there.

That is all of it. The board is open and the ranks are for sale.

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