Advertise on Machinery Dealer Index
Machinery Dealer Index is a live, monthly-verified industrial directory with 994 dealer profiles, 16 category pages, and 55 state pages — indexed content that AI answer engines and search crawlers are already citing. If you place links or run visibility campaigns for clients in machinery, industrial equipment, or manufacturing, this is placement inventory you can buy directly instead of prospecting for a directory that will even accept a paid link.
What you're buying
We're direct about this: you understand backlinks and citation surfaces better than most of our dealer audience does, so here's exactly what a placement is and isn't.
- Featured placement — your client's profile (or a co-branded slot) appears above the standard ranking on the category or state page you sponsor, clearly labeled as sponsored. It does not change the objective ranking shown to everyone else — see methodology.
- Category sponsorship — your brand/link appears in a dedicated sponsor slot on a machine-category page (e.g. CNC Machining Centers, Press Brakes) for the length of your subscription.
- Dofollow link from a live, topically-relevant industrial directory page — not a link farm, not a PBN. Real content, real (dealer) traffic, real monthly re-verification.
- AI-citation surface — our pages are structured for and explicitly open to GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot (see /llms.txt). We cannot and do not guarantee any specific AI engine cites a sponsored page; we can show you our crawl-access policy and page structure so you can judge citability yourself.
What it isn't
- Not a guarantee of rankings, traffic, leads, or citations — for your client or for us. We sell placement and visibility, not outcomes.
- Not a change to the underlying dealer data or ranking criteria. Sponsorship never alters a dealer's objective rank; see methodology.
- Not exclusive by default at the lowest tier — category exclusivity is available at the top tier only, and we cap how many sponsors we take per category regardless.
Tiers
$99–$499/mo
Priced by placement scope. Rough bands below — exact pricing depends on which category/state pages and how many you want; ask for a quote.
- $99/mo — Single category sponsor. One category page, sponsor slot + dofollow link.
- $249/mo — Multi-category or state bundle. Up to 5 category or state pages, sponsor slot + dofollow link on each.
- $499/mo — Site-wide featured placement. Homepage sponsor slot plus category exclusivity on your chosen categories (capped availability).
Questions first? Email [email protected].
FAQ
Is this a paid link scheme?
No — it's a disclosed, labeled sponsored placement on a real, monthly-verified directory with genuine dealer content. The link is dofollow, but sponsorship is clearly marked as sponsored on the page, and it never changes the objective dealer ranking. We're not selling link-scheme placements on thin or fake pages.
Do you guarantee rankings or AI citations for the sponsored page?
No. We guarantee the placement, the dofollow link, and the disclosed sponsor label. We do not and cannot guarantee search rankings, referral traffic, or that any AI engine chooses to cite the page.
How many sponsors do you take per category?
We cap sponsor slots per category to keep pages genuinely useful, not ad-cluttered. Ask in the form above for current availability on your target categories.
Can I cancel?
Yes, anytime, effective at the end of the current billing period — same terms as dealer claims. See pricing & refund policy.