Put your Skydex badge on your website and earn Feathers every day
If you run a website, a blog, a flying club page or a small personal homepage, you can now earn Feathers for linking to Skydex from it. Open My invites, find the new section Badge on your site, copy the snippet and paste it into your page. It is a small image with your name, your rank and your catch count, wrapped in your invite link.
Station badges count too
If you run a receiver, the badge from your station page works the same way. Open your station, press Embed badge, copy the HTML snippet and put it on your site, then add that page under My invites. The station badge shows your station's live numbers and links to its page; it is checked and paid exactly like the player badge, and the Feathers go to the station's owner. Markdown and forum BBCode snippets cannot carry rel="sponsored", so only the HTML snippet counts for the mission.
How it works
- Add the address of the page where you placed the badge.
- Our crawler, SkydexBot, opens that page and looks for your link. You can press Recheck right after you publish, or wait for the daily round.
- Once the link is found, the placement is verified. From the next UTC day on, every day the link is still there pays Feathers.
The daily pay grows with the number of different sites, not with the number of pages on one site. One site pays 5 Feathers a day, two sites pay 12, five sites pay 35 and ten sites pay 60. Subdomains of one site count as one, and free hosting platforms such as GitHub Pages or Blogspot count as one slot per platform. Keep a placement alive for 30, 90 and 365 days in a row and it pays a one-off bonus of 100, 300 and 1,000 Feathers.
To count as living, a placement needs at least three real visitors in fourteen days who loaded the badge from that site. We count people, not page loads: bots, data centres and your own network are left out. That keeps the mission about real sites that real people read.
The Webmaster achievement
Tridents do not come from daily pay. They come from a new achievement, Webmaster, which counts placements that have stayed living for 30 days. Its five tiers need 1, 3, 5, 10 and 25 such placements, and the last one carries a title you can wear.
The rules
The link has to carry rel="sponsored" or rel="nofollow". The snippet we give you already does. This matters for your site as much as for ours: a paid link without that attribute is the kind of thing search engines penalise.
A hidden link does not count, and neither does a page that carries badges for three or more players at once. One domain belongs to one account: whoever verifies it first holds it. If a page stops loading or the link disappears, the placement turns lost after a few failed checks and pay stops until you fix it. You get a notification in the bell when a placement is verified and when it is lost, with the reason.
We do not use iframes. A plain image and a link are lighter for your visitors and honest about what they are.
Privacy
The badge counts visitors with a key that changes every day, built from a shortened address and the browser string. We do not store addresses, the counts are deleted after 45 days, and two days cannot be joined into one visitor. The privacy policy has a new section about it.
Your invite page has the snippet. If you have a site that talks about aviation, ships, maps or radio, it is a good home for it.