Cafés and roasters on a five-dollar floor
One-room roasters, hanok cafés, dessert counters and coffee subscriptions hold these rows, and they carry the smallest budgets on the board. Five dollars buys a real seat here, which is the whole point of having a floor. The number beside a name is what that shop pays to sit where it sits; it is an advertising rate, not a rating. The listing page behind each row stays up in four languages with the ad label attached.
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How to read this board
Small numbers are easier to read than big ones, and this column is where the arithmetic is clearest. A five-dollar seat that collects forty clicks in a week costs about twelve cents a click; run that against the clicks and seven-day clicks columns before deciding a higher row is worth it. Days on board is the other lever — a shop that stayed at row nine all season paid once and kept collecting. Every submitted address is screened before publication, so a row here means the link passed review, and nothing more than that. The ladder on a row states the exact amount to take it.
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Questions
Is five dollars really enough to appear?
Yes. Five dollars is the minimum seat price and buys a published row wherever that amount places you, with the same page, the same label and the same click counting as any row above it.
Does #1 mean the best?
No. Rank measures what a company pays for visibility, not quality. Nobody here has tasted the coffee; the order is the order of payments.
Do you check the site before it goes up?
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