The badge

Display it on your homepage and your listing carries a dofollow link. We check once a day. Take it down and the link pauses; put it back and it resumes on the next check. If you would rather not display anything, pay $12 once instead: no badge, no renewal.

Styles and code

<a href="https://www.website.show" title="Featured on website.show">
  <img src="https://www.website.show/badge/websiteshow-badge-dark-b1.svg"
       alt="Featured on website.show" width="216" height="64"/>
</a>

What the check looks for

These are the exact conditions. If all four hold, the badge counts.

It links to the landing page: The href must be https://www.website.show, not a deeper URL. Query parameters are fine — keep a ?ref= if one is already there.
The link is dofollow: The badge link must not carry rel="nofollow", rel="sponsored" or rel="ugc". Other rel values, like noopener, are fine.
It is on your homepage: We check the page served at /. A badge on /about or /credits will not be found.
Everyone sees it: Served unconditionally to every visitor and every region, not behind an A/B test, a geo variant or a cookie.

If the badge goes missing

One failed check changes nothing. Networks have bad days.
Three in a row switches the link to nofollow. We email you.
Fourteen in a row archives the listing. It can be resubmitted.
Found again at any point, the link is restored the same day.