Richest QueueHow ranking works
RQ separates observed response from composite scores. Seen, opened and outbound are direct RQ measurements. Momentum and RQ Rank use those signals with applicable public evidence.
What we measure on RQ
Three counts about your project's entry on this site, kept in real units.Your entry was properly seen
Counted when at least half of it is on screen for a moment, on Home, the Queue or RQ Rank. Loading a page in the background does not count.
Someone chose to open it
A tap or click on your entry. This is worth more than a view because it was a decision.
Someone went through to your site
The strongest response we can see. It means RQ attention turned into an action on your project.
Rates matter more than totals: opens per view and visits per open. Momentum is a separate RQ score. Views, opens and visits stay as counts and rates. Upvotes are counted and shown on your entry but do not move the score on their own. All three counts are in My Account over 7 days.
Three evidence buckets
What we take from the public web. No project needs every source, and a missing one is neutral, not a penalty.Did people respond?
The views, opens and visits above, their rates, and how they change when your project gets more exposure.
Is the footprint changing?
For the website you gave us: search interest movement, Web Rank, backlinks and referring domains, checked again over time. We also check the site is up.
Is the platform moving?
GitHub and YouTube where you have given us the link in My Account, and the App Store and Google Play where your project is listed there.
Product Signal: what the thing is
Five judgements of the project itself, each out of 100, made from what is publicly there: Proof (it exists and works), Clarity (a stranger can tell what it is), Utility (someone would use it), Differentiation (it is not the tenth of its kind), Potential (it could become a bigger thing). Where the evidence is thin the score is pulled toward the middle rather than guessed.
RQ's own assessment model makes those judgements from independent reviews of the same public evidence against the same rubric. Each review says whether the project is interesting, done before, an improvement on an existing idea, unclear or too early to tell. RQ averages them. Where they disagree the split is shown on the project page and Confidence drops. The reasoning is published next to the score.
Momentum: what is changing
Change measured against your own recent history, not against the biggest project on the board. A small project moving is more interesting than a large one standing still. Outside evidence leads where it exists: search interest, referring domains, public mentions, repositories and store listings are measured over the last week and the last month against the project's own earlier figures, with a floor so a jump from 2 to 4 is not a surge, and a project growing in several places at once counts for more than one channel moving. One spike is only partly counted; the same movement holding for a week counts more; a quiet week does not wipe out a sustained move.
A single unusual signal can flag a Project of interest. That is an early look, not a rank.
The board is live: it recalculates every ten minutes. The mark beside a rank compares with 24 hours ago; NEW means no published rank a week ago. Momentum 7D is the change in Momentum over seven days; on wide screens the board also shows 24H and 30D.
Confidence is evidence depth
It is not a quality score, a popularity score or a reward for spending.Confidence asks one question: is there enough genuine evidence to trust what we are seeing? Project opens and website visits build it. Independent outside sources reporting build it. Being shown more does not: impressions count only a little and are capped, so a VIP day or a Featured run buys exposure and a report, not confidence. Adding a link or waiting does not.
A rank is published once a project is at least 24 hours old and Confidence is 40 or more. Before that the honest state is Gathering, and that is what you will see.
Owner updates. Posting an update about a real change adds up to 2 Confidence points on its own and up to 4 more if public movement around it backs it up. An update never rewrites Momentum or RQ Rank directly, and posting daily does nothing extra.
RQ Rank is the ordering of Product Signal and Momentum after that gate. Category standings use exactly the same model. Movement is shown over 24 hours, 7 days and 30 days.
What you can do about it
In rough order of effect. None of it is a trick.Say what it is. A clear name, one line that a stranger understands, a logo, and a website that loads. That is most of Clarity and Proof, and it is the cheapest thing on this page.
Give us your sources. Add your GitHub and YouTube links in My Account. Evidence we cannot see does not exist.
Send real people to your entry. Share the link. Opens and visits from real visitors are what Momentum is built from.
Post an update when something real changes. A release, a milestone, a number. Dated, labelled, and checked against what happens next.
Credits buy a VIP day or Featured placement, where people look first. What those people then do is measured like everything else. The money itself adds zero points, and so does Pot backing.
What does nothing: paying, upvoting yourself, posting every day, adding links to things that are not yours, and time passing on its own.
What gets you removed: bought, botted or scripted views, opens, visits or votes. Suspicious activity is dropped from scoring first and the entry can go after it.
Evidence keeps its real name
So you can check it.Web Rank is shown as DataForSEO Rank, never dressed up as something else. App revenue and download figures are never invented. Sources that do not apply to your project stay neutral. External collection runs under a hard monthly budget, so a source may be refreshed less often than you would like; it is never faked to fill the gap.