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title: "Featured on" badge: add the strip, pass the check
description: Add the "Featured on" badge strip to your home page with the Script, React, HTML or JSON embed, and pass the badge check Quillly runs before you order.
keywords: featured on, badge strip, dofollow backlink
published: 2026-09-24
updated: 2026-09-24
url: https://quillly.com/docs/badge
word_count: 1515
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# The "Featured on" badge
> Add the "Featured on" badge strip to your home page with the Script, React, HTML or JSON embed, and pass the badge check Quillly runs before you order.
Canonical: https://quillly.com/docs/badge
Published: 2026-09-24
## Related Pages
- [The DR guarantee](https://quillly.com/docs/dr-guarantee)
- [How Directory Submission works](https://quillly.com/docs/directory-submission)
- [The submission kit](https://quillly.com/docs/submission-kit)
- [Orders, progress and listings](https://quillly.com/docs/directory-orders)
The "Featured on" badge strip shows a badge for every directory that lists your site, each one linking back to that directory. This page shows how to add the strip to your home page, which of the four embeds to pick, and how to pass the badge check that must be green before you order.
Before you start:
- A website in Quillly. Each website has its own strip, so select the right one first.
- A way to edit your home page, in its code or in your site builder.
[Get the badge embed](https://quillly.com/dashboard/domain-rating)
## Why directories want the "Featured on" badge
Many directories ask you to show their badge on your site. Several grant your listing a [dofollow backlink](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/qualify-outbound-links) only while their badge is live there, and they re-check it. Without the badge the link is no longer followed, and a link that is not followed does not count toward your [Ahrefs Domain Rating](https://help.ahrefs.com/en/articles/1409408-what-is-domain-rating-dr).
## What the badge strip shows
The strip carries the badge for every directory at once:
- **One badge per listing.** When a directory gives out its own badge art, the strip shows that art. Otherwise it shows a **Featured on** badge with the directory's name and icon.
- **The right link.** Each badge links where that directory asks, such as its home page or your listing.
- **Highest Domain Rating first.** Badges are sorted by each directory's Domain Rating.
- **Awaiting review.** A badge appears when the directory marks your listing live, or earlier if the directory issues its badge first. Some directories approve a listing only once they see their badge on your site.
- **A credit line.** The Script and Next.js / React embeds add the line **Live listings, submitted by Quillly** under the badges. It links to Quillly's Directory Submission page.
## Add the strip to your home page
### 1. Open Badges
In **Domain Rating**, click **Badges**, next to **Orders**. The dialog previews your strip and counts your badges, for example **2 live · 1 awaiting review**. Before any directory has issued a badge, it says so instead.
### 2. Pick an embed
Choose **Script** unless your site needs another one. The next section compares all four.
### 3. Copy the snippet
Click the copy button on the code box. The snippet already carries your website's ID.
### 4. Add it to your home page
Paste it where the strip should appear, such as your home page's footer or a "Featured on" section. You add it once: the Script and Next.js / React embeds pick up new badges on their own.
### 5. Run the check
Open the order dialog with **Auto-submit to N directories**, and click **Check now** next to **Badge strip live on your landing page**. The check is explained below.
## The four embeds
| Embed | What you add | New badges | In your page's HTML |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Script** | One `
```
The script draws the strip where the tag sits. To place it elsewhere, add an element with the `data-quillly-badges` attribute, and the strip goes inside it. With four or more badges the strip scrolls and pauses on hover, and it stays still for visitors who turn off animations.
### Next.js / React
```jsx
export async function FeaturedOn() {
const res = await fetch('https://quillly.com/api/badges/YOUR_WEBSITE_ID?format=html', { next: { revalidate: 86400 } });
if (!res.ok) return null;
return ;
}
```
Render `` in your footer. It is an async [server component](https://react.dev/reference/rsc/server-components), so the links are in your page's HTML, and the `revalidate` option of the [Next.js fetch](https://nextjs.org/docs/app/api-reference/functions/fetch) fetches the strip again once a day. On another framework, fetch the same URL on your server or at build time and insert the HTML it returns.
### HTML (manual)
This tab lists your current badges as links, one per line. Each one looks like this:
```html
Featured onLaunchBoard
```
The paste is frozen. When another directory lists you, come back and copy it again. It carries no styles, so style the `qb-` classes yourself, and it has no credit line.
### JSON
```text
https://quillly.com/api/badges/YOUR_WEBSITE_ID
```
The raw feed for your own code. Each badge has the directory's `name` and `domain`, its link in `href`, its image or icon, and ready-made `html`. Add `?format=html` to get the strip as an HTML fragment to include on your server, and `&marquee=1` after that for the scrolling version.
## The badge check before you order
The order dialog lists two checks under **Before we start**: **Submission kit complete** and **Badge strip live on your landing page**. The order button stays off until both are green.
**Check now** loads your home page, for example `https://acme.com/`, and reads its HTML. It passes when it finds the Script tag, the strip the Next.js / React embed renders, or the feed URL. The row then reads, for example, **Found on acme.com via the script embed · checked just now**.
The check reads the HTML only and does not run scripts, which is why it looks for the tag rather than the badges.
- **The strip is not on acme.com.** The check read your page and found no strip. Click **Get the embed**, add the strip, then click **Check now** again.
- **We could not read acme.com.** Your server or firewall blocked the check (for example with `HTTP 403`), returned a server error, showed a bot challenge, timed out or redirected to another domain. That is not proof the strip is missing. Click **I've added it**, and the next daily check confirms it.
> [!NOTE]
> A paste from the **HTML (manual)** tab on its own does not pass the check, because the check recognizes only the script, the `?format=html` fragment and the feed URL. Use the Script or Next.js / React embed, or include the fragment on your server.
[Run the badge check](https://quillly.com/dashboard/domain-rating?package=standard)
## Keep the strip up
The **Keeping the dofollow credit — 3 rules** list in **Badges** says what keeps the links counting:
- Keep the badge links followed: no `rel="nofollow"` or `rel="sponsored"` on them.
- Leave the badges on the page. Directories re-check and demote listings whose badge disappeared.
- Don't block directory checker bots in your [robots.txt](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/robots/intro) or your firewall or CDN rules.
Once you have a submitted or live listing, Quillly checks your home page again every day. If the strip is gone, each submitted or live listing shows **Badge missing** in the **Directory list**, and the **Issues** pill lists **Badge strip not found on acme.com**. Both open **Badges**.
> [!WARNING]
> The daily check also counts toward the [DR guarantee](https://quillly.com/docs/dr-guarantee). If the strip was found on fewer than 80% of the daily checks in the 60 days after an order completes, that order can no longer be refunded, though Quillly keeps submitting at no extra cost. Days Quillly could not read your page don't count against you.
## Badges added for you
Some directories ask for their badge on your site before they confirm a listing. For listings Quillly submits, Quillly adds that badge to your strip and confirms it with the directory. The listing's row in the **Directory list** then reads **Quillly placed the badge on your site**, and there is nothing to do. Keep an embed that updates itself, so these badges reach your site.
For a listing you made yourself, you can add the badge the directory gave you. Click the pencil button on its row in the **Directory list**, paste the code or the image URL into **Badge embed code**, and click **Save**. The strip shows that badge with its link once the listing is **Submitted** or **Live**.
## Common questions
### My site is behind a firewall. Will the check fail?
It can. If your firewall blocks the check, the row says **We could not read** your domain and shows the error, such as `HTTP 403`. Click **I've added it** to go on, and allow directory checkers through as well, since they can be blocked the same way.
### When does a new badge show on my site?
It appears in **Badges** as soon as the directory marks your listing live or issues its badge. The Script and Next.js / React embeds then pick it up on their own, the Next.js / React one at its daily re-fetch. A manual HTML paste shows it only once you copy it again.
### Does the strip have to be on my home page?
Yes. Quillly's check reads only your home page, so the strip must be there before you can order. You can add it to other pages as well.
## Related
- [How Directory Submission works](https://quillly.com/docs/directory-submission): the order, the queue and every status.
- [The submission kit](https://quillly.com/docs/submission-kit): the other check before you order.
- [Orders, progress and listings](https://quillly.com/docs/directory-orders): where **Badge missing** shows in the Directory list.
- [The DR guarantee](https://quillly.com/docs/dr-guarantee): why the strip matters for the refund.