About Litter Layer

Discover hidden worlds within the litter layer(opens in new tab) of the world wide web. Our web spider Patu slowly explores the web and prefers indie websites without things like Facebook/Meta Pixel or Google Adsense. It also ranks sites with RSS feeds higher because those were/are amazing and social media platforms should have never removed them.

Websites with a patu.txt file at the root rank higher and help Patu discover related sites. You can suggest any eligible site from our suggest a site page — patu.txt is optional. Without it, Patu may still find your site over time through normal crawling.

What's patu.txt?

Our spider, Patu, looks for robots.txt, sitemaps, and our own unique patu.txt file to help it crawl and add your site. The patu.txt file should include three tags and up to three URLs that you recommend. Ideally, you should recommend other websites, not pages within your website.

In a blank txt file, simply create something like this:

music
electronic music
ambient

https://myfriendswebsite.com
https://anothersite.com
https://patupatu.io

That's it. Three tags, three URLs. Upload it to your site's root (sometimes called public_html). This will help to organize and grow Litter Layer over time. Plus, it's a way to show your support for this project.

Who's behind this?

Billy(opens in new tab) is passionate about keeping the web diverse. This is why he started Litter Layer. An indie search engine meant for discovering new things versus SEO AI articles.