A maintained list of 1,854 legitimate backlink sites: directories, profile creation sites, guest posting sites, launch platforms, registries and marketplaces. 1,532 are free or have a free tier, 44 usually give a dofollow link, and 772 have an estimated DA of 70 or more. Every row shows authority, link type, cost and effort, and links straight to the submit page.
Publish an original, human-verified privacy or accessibility benchmark with complete methodology, provenance, schema, license, and a relevant project citation.
Upload your original audio explainer and place relevant resource links naturally in the show description.
Build and test a Netlify extension, publish it publicly, then submit it for review and directory listing.
Create a useful quickstart for monitoring your real deployment, with instrumentation instructions, a working data source, dashboards, alerts, documentation, and a GitHub contribution.
Publish @your tool/embed or utility package with homepage.
Publish a free mini-course on privacy, redaction, scam detection, or accessibility with genuine your tool exercises in the curriculum.
Submit your desktop or mobile app through their developer contact so it gets a download page.
Build a useful Splunk app or add-on for legitimate your tool security, audit, or operational data; package it with clear documentation, icons, screenshots, release metadata, and support details.
Host or claim your genuine show, verify the RSS email, and publish accurate episode notes with relevant HTTPS resources.
Build a polished Unity editor utility or SDK for your relevant service and submit it with demos, documentation and support details.
Build your Vercel integration, distribute its page, gain adoption, then apply for Marketplace visibility.
Create tutorials for top your tool tools with links.
Build a minimal-scope Zoom app that sends selected meeting content to your explicit privacy or redaction workflow and links its support, privacy, and documentation pages.
Propose a lived-experience frontend article on accessible tool interfaces, privacy-safe browser APIs, CSS, or performance.
Publish #showdev article about client-side privacy tools.
Pitch a practical, outcome-based tutorial on client-side privacy, accessible UI, or web safety using original examples and an honest author identity.
Write an original technical article about a broadly useful browser-security, privacy, or accessibility technique and cite your tool only when it is a necessary working example.
Publish a detailed build or usage tutorial around your original workflow, with the relevant tool link only where it helps readers.
Read the blog's submission guidelines, then send a detailed pitch for an in-depth SEO tutorial or case study with original data.
Apply to become a contributor with writing samples, then pitch practical, data-backed SEO or PPC pieces to the editors.
Use the contributor link in the site footer to apply, then pitch original search marketing analysis or tactics from your own work.
Pitch a practical privacy-by-design, accessibility, frontend-security, or local-first tooling article backed by real your tool lessons.
Pitch a rigorous developer-facing article about secure file handling, browser privacy, accessibility testing, or tool architecture.
Pitch original your tool data, an AI/privacy industry argument, or a consequential product launch to the relevant desk.
Create your truthful /founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed.
Mirror open-source embed SDK or examples with homepage link.
Create your truthful /founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed.
Create business profile only if eligible with real business details.
Create brand/founder profile with verified links.
Publish a genuine browser or desktop your tool utility with screenshots, documentation and an official-site link.
Build your functional Joomla integration and submit a complete listing with an approved download route.
If the founder contributes to research or innovation, create an ORCID record and add your tool under public website and relevant work links.
Create your truthful /founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed.
An eligible active researcher can publish genuine your tool studies, code or datasets and add the official website where appropriate.
Publish an original educational 3D asset connected to your real tutorial, with accurate credits and a contextual project link in the description.
Create your truthful /founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed.
Build a real founder profile and answer narrowly relevant questions, linking to your resource only when it directly substantiates the answer.
Create your truthful /founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed.
If your tool maker genuinely offers related services, add the project as a detailed portfolio item with role, outcomes, visuals, and permitted project links.
Create your truthful /founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed.
Four steps that work for a new site, a SaaS or a side project. No paid link packages, nothing that risks a penalty.
Before submitting anywhere, have a one-line description, a 150-word description, a square logo and two or three screenshots ready. Every form asks for some mix of these.
Start with the free, quick rows: profile creation sites and free directories. They are one form each and build the entity signals search engines use to understand who you are.
Then pick a handful of high DA and dofollow sites that fit your niche, and write proper guest posts or launch posts for them. Ten relevant links beat a hundred random ones.
Note where you submitted and when. Recheck after a month, update stale descriptions, and never pay for bulk link packages: they put the whole site at risk.
Behind the list
Every row here starts as a line in a sheet, gets normalised into one of 16 groups, scored for cost, effort and impact, and written up with the steps to actually submit. The floor below represents that pipeline.
Open the sheet viewAn illustration of the AltF Backlinks floor: opportunities sourced at the back, vetted for cost and effort by the engineering pod, written up for outreach by the design pod, then tracked to placement along a line.
One-shot launches where timing and preparation decide the outcome.
Publications that accept contributed articles. Slow and editorial, but the links are earned.
Fast-growing listings specifically for AI-powered tools.
Extension, plugin and integration stores. Real review processes, real distribution.
Startup listings, beta lists and founder media.
General tool and software catalogues with real search traffic.
B2B review sites. Slow to approve, strong once live.
Package, image and docs hosting that carries real authority.
Showcases judged on craft. A good screenshot matters more than copy.
Write once, link back. Editorial standards vary widely.
Get quoted or distribute a release. Slower, higher ceiling.
Company and local listings. Unglamorous, consistently indexed.
Owned pages you control: company, founder, knowledge-panel entities.
Answer real questions. Never drop a bare link.
Brand surface and referral traffic more than link equity.
Everything that does not fit the buckets above.