## Neocities Neocities is a free static-site host in the spirit of GeoCities, serving over a million hand-built personal sites at username.neocities.org subdomains. You upload or edit raw HTML directly, so any outbound link on your site is ordinary crawlable markup that you control completely. - URL: https://neocities.org - Guide: https://backlinkbadger.com/provider/neocities/ - Link type: dofollow - Free option: yes - Domain authority: 12/100 - Spam score: 4/100 - Difficulty: 30/100 - Estimated time: 30 minutes - Requirements: Email, Username (becomes your subdomain), Basic HTML, Real site content Neocities gives you a free static site at `https://.neocities.org` where you author the HTML yourself. Because the host serves your files exactly as written, links to your own project are plain `` anchors with whatever attributes you choose - no `nofollow`, no redirect wrapper, no platform rewriting. Inspected live sites confirm this: external anchors on published Neocities pages carry no `rel` attribute at all. ### Steps 1. Open [neocities.org](https://neocities.org/) and use the **Create your own free website** form on the homepage - pick a username (it becomes your `username.neocities.org` address), add your email and password. There is no separate signup page; the homepage form is the entry point. 2. Verify your email. The free plan includes 1 GB of storage and 200 GB of bandwidth, which is far more than a small site needs. 3. Open your site dashboard and edit `index.html` in the built-in browser editor, or drag and drop files to upload a site you built locally. Neocities' [tutorials](https://neocities.org/tutorials) cover the basics if you are new to HTML. 4. Build a page with genuine content - a portfolio, project page, hobby resource, or personal site - and add your backlink where it helps the reader, for example an author link, project homepage link, or resources section. 5. Hit save. Publishing is instant; your page is live and indexable immediately (Neocities adds no `noindex` meta tags or `X-Robots-Tag` headers to user sites). A public example with visible outbound links: [https://pixelsea.neocities.org](https://pixelsea.neocities.org) - a pixel-art resource site whose sidebar buttons link out to other creators' independent domains. [Image: Pixel Sea, a published Neocities site whose sidebar buttons are ordinary outbound links to external domains] ### Built-in discovery Unlike a bare static host, every Neocities site also gets a server-rendered public profile at `neocities.org/site/` and can appear in the [browse directory](https://neocities.org/browse) and tag listings. Those pages link straight to your subdomain with clean anchors (no `rel` attribute), so an active site picks up crawlable internal paths from the main neocities.org domain on top of the links you control on your own pages. [Image: Neocities public site profile for Pixel Sea showing the direct link to the site, view count, followers, and update feed] Followers, site comments, and the activity feed are how sites get found here. Updating regularly and tagging your site sensibly (up to a handful of topic tags) is what earns placement in the directory views that people actually browse. ### Link quality notes The link itself is as good as your page: dofollow because you wrote the HTML, but starting from a brand-new subdomain with no authority of its own. Treat it like GitHub Pages or any other hosted static site - the value grows only if the page earns content, visitors, and inbound links over time. The bigger constraint is policy. Neocities' terms explicitly ban sites that exist solely for SEO or as backlink aggregators, and moderation does delete them. A thin one-page site that is just a list of promotional links is exactly what that rule targets. If you would not show the site to a Neocities user browsing the directory, do not publish it - build something with standalone value and let the backlink ride along.