About Shove
Shove is a public pay-to-rank leaderboard where users can paste a URL and pay in whole dollars to achieve a ranking. This platform targets those who want to promote their online presence by bidding for higher positions on the leaderboard. Users can see the clicks each URL has garnered and the current standings, providing transparency in how rankings change based on monetary bids. This service is useful for marketers and businesses looking to gain visibility and attract traffic, thus facilitating competition among participants who wish to secure the top spots for their URLs.
What Shove does
- Pay-to-rank board
- Lets users submit a URL or @handle and bid for a position.
- Whole-dollar bidding
- Uses whole-dollar bids to move a listing higher on the board.
- Transparent standings
- Shows current ranks, bids, and clicks received by each URL.
- Category arenas
- Splits rankings into focused categories such as Marketing and Developer tools.
- Short-term #1 lock
- Allows a qualifying bid to lock the top position for three hours.
Who it’s for
Best suited to marketers, founders, creators, and businesses looking for a simple paid visibility experiment for a URL or social handle. It is not a fit for teams seeking organic SEO, long-term ad analytics, or guaranteed traffic.
What it costs
Paid bidding starts at $1 on the public board, with the required bid varying by the rank a visitor wants to claim. The website also advertises a three-hour #1 lock for bids of at least $25.
