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.
Join as your real designer and share polished, original interface explorations or accessibility improvements with useful design context and a profile website link.
Create a genuine founder profile and share a useful build story or tutorial with a relevant link.
Create a genuine founder profile and share a useful build story or tutorial with a relevant link.
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.
Publish @your tool/embed or utility package with homepage.
Create your genuine collective, complete its public profile, and add the official website plus repository/social links.
Claim your genuine show, verify ownership, and complete its official website and creator details.
Publish a carefully annotated collection of trustworthy privacy, accessibility, and safety resources, including only your tool pages that genuinely fit each section.
Package your legitimate Ruby client or utility and add homepage and source metadata before pushing the gem.
Find an existing question where your specific utility is a genuine option, add it accurately, and document balanced pros and cons.
Submit your desktop or mobile app through their developer contact so it gets a download page.
Host or claim your genuine show, verify the RSS email, and publish accurate episode notes with relevant HTTPS resources.
Publish a working browser demo or starter that teaches your integration, with accurate title, description and canonical documentation link.
Build a valuable public start page of privacy and productivity resources, then submit it to Community Pages after adding your tool selectively.
Set up a profile with your site in the website field, then answer computer questions where your guide genuinely helps.
Publish your real OpenAPI definition publicly with an accurate description and external documentation URL.
Build a legitimate Thunderbird MailExtension, complete its add-on page and submit it through the Developer Hub.
Register as a developer and upload your app or ask the team to list it.
Publish a well-organized privacy-toolkit collection containing authoritative resources plus selected your tool utilities.
Develop a neutral, sourced learning project about privacy, accessibility, or online-scam literacy and cite your tool only in relevant exercises.
Build your accounting/privacy integration, validate it with customers, certify and publish it in the Xero App Store.
Create tutorials for top your tool tools with links.
Publish your genuine open dataset, benchmark, software release, poster, or reproducible research artifact and connect its related identifier to your tool.
Register a real founder or engineer profile and publish an original code-backed tutorial on privacy-safe browser tooling, mentioning your tool only where it is part of the implementation.
Submit a substantial implementation article with code samples for a local privacy or document-processing technique used in your tool.
Publish #showdev article about client-side privacy tools.
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.
Write an original Japanese developer tutorial or benchmark that uses your tool and cite the relevant tool or source only where it helps readers.
Build your working automation Actor, publish it to the Store and include contextual project/documentation links.
Curate a tagged public collection of authoritative privacy, accessibility, and safety resources with your tool included only where substantively relevant.
Enter a relevant live hackathon with your working project, complete its story and demo, and include the project website where allowed.
Create startup profile and link website.
Create your truthful /founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed.
Create software vendor listing.
Post how to embed your tool calculators in Ghost after /embed live.
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.
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.