How to list your website on Read the Docs
Hosted documentation for your project, built from your repository.
- Link
- Link type unverified
- Cost
- Free plan
- Effort
- Moderate
- Reach (our estimate)
- High authority
- Region
- Worldwide
- When
- Week 4 onwards
Short answer
Read the Docs is free to start, with paid plans, and the link type is not confirmed yet, so check it on your live listing. To get listed, sign up with your Git provider; it takes about an hour.
How to get listed on Read the Docs
- Step 1: Sign up with your Git provider.
- Step 2: Import your repository.
- Step 3: Add a Sphinx or MkDocs config.
- Step 4: Build and publish the docs.
You need
A public repository with docs source files.
Good to know
The free community site is for open source; private docs use the paid business site.
Have these ready before you start
- Business or product name, written the same way everywhere
- Website address (the exact page you want linked)
- A 50-word and a 150-word description
- Logo, plus two or three screenshots or photos
- Contact email, and address and phone for a local business
At a glance
- Website
- readthedocs.org
- Category
- Publishing
- Reach (our estimate)
- High authority
- When to do it
- Week 4 onwards
- Position
- 13 of 25 in Publishing
About the link
We have not confirmed the link attribute. Check the live listing after it is published.
Best for
- Developers
- SaaS
On these lists
Questions about Read the Docs
Are Read the Docs links dofollow?
We have not confirmed it. Once your Read the Docs listing is live, check the link to your site: a rel="nofollow" attribute means it is nofollow.
Is Read the Docs free?
Read the Docs has a free plan and paid upgrades. Check what the free listing includes before you start: on some sites the website link comes with a paid plan.
How much work does a listing on Read the Docs take?
A full profile with screenshots or a verification step: about an hour. How long approval takes is up to Read the Docs: many sites review a listing before it goes live.
Plan it, then tick it off.
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