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Ranking

# Ranking

How position on the board is computed, and what cannot buy it.

- [How ranking works on Product Billboards, weight by weight](https://productbillboards.com/blog/how-ranking-works)

The organic order is a weighted score recomputed every 24 hours from verified traffic, dwell, geographic spread and founder reply rate. Here is every term in it, and why reply rate is weighted hardest.

2026-09-09 · 6 min read

- [What counts as a visit, and what we throw away](https://productbillboards.com/blog/what-counts-as-a-visit)

A visitor count only means something if the things it excludes are stated. Sessions, dwell caps, coarse country codes, and why we never store an IP address.

2026-09-09 · 4 min read

- [Sponsored slots, disclosure, and the one position that is for sale](https://productbillboards.com/blog/sponsored-slots-and-disclosure)

Exactly one position in each feed can be bought, badged in place and priced by demand. Every other position is earned and permanently off the market. What we sell, what we do not, and the disclosure rules we hold ourselves to.

2026-09-09 · 5 min read

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