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.
Register your tool as a B2B product, choose relevant categories, and complete the vendor profile in English.
Submit an original L&D article on teaching practical privacy or accessibility skills, linking only to your genuinely informative guide where it supports the lesson.
Apply with a code-heavy observability, Node, Ruby, Python, or Elixir tutorial using your real engineering problem as the case study.
Create a real founder or researcher portfolio containing original your tool engineering, privacy, and accessibility articles already published under that person's byline.
Create your free company profile and upload polished UX, privacy-tool, or brand work as documented case studies.
Launch a consistent Trustworthy Tools digest that mixes independent sources with occasional relevant your tool research, adding original commentary to every selected link.
Create expert source profile and answer tech/privacy/tool queries.
Send one current, technically substantive frontend or accessibility article/tool after publishing it, explaining the concrete reader value and disclosing your tool ownership.
Claim a free account, complete a credible founder guest profile, and pursue relevant podcast, newsletter, or blog interviews.
First publish a strong JavaScript/browser engineering article or genuinely novel developer utility, then reply to a current issue with one concise, disclosed editorial tip.
Create company page and publish case-study posts.
Submit your tool as an actively maintained React and Next.js project, highlighting useful product functionality and implementation quality.
Publish original, text-first notes about building local-only privacy and accessibility tools, with restrained links to your relevant live implementation.
Submit your founder-written product or privacy case study with concrete decisions, evidence, failures, and lessons for product practitioners.
Create your original engineering field-notes publication with human-approved privacy, accessibility, and local-first essays rather than republished marketing copy.
Email your genuinely newsworthy podcast or audio-tool launch story with concise facts, human artwork, and release timing.
Submit your tool with homepage URL, privacy-first positioning, logo, screenshots and accurate pricing.
Submit your polished landing/tool UI with clean screenshots and design credits.
Submit your tool with homepage URL, privacy-first positioning, logo, screenshots and accurate pricing.
Create your publication or original Japanese engineering article with reproducible examples and contextual links to source or documentation.
Submit product for review/listing.
Pitch/write article about privacy-first browser tools.
Test one legitimate product-news release, then use paid tiers only if referral or discovery value is measurable.
Apply with a genuine technical portfolio and propose an original mobile privacy tutorial aligned with Kodeco's listed subject areas.
Publish founder/productivity article linking your tool.
Create a founder/privacy-tool expert profile, add your tool website and pitch only genuinely relevant podcast interviews.
Build a focused public portfolio for your real designer/team and publish one detailed product, privacy, or accessibility design case study with the project link.
Submit your tool with homepage URL, privacy-first positioning, logo, screenshots and accurate pricing.
Join the free guest-request emails and pitch only relevant shows with a useful privacy, security, accessibility, or tooling angle.
Pitch an original Python privacy, document-safety, or local-processing tutorial based on real your tool engineering lessons.
Submit your tool with homepage URL, privacy-first positioning, logo, screenshots and accurate pricing.
Add SaaS/product profile.
Create source profile and monitor relevant requests.
Publish an original, media-rich tutorial or founder case study with useful screenshots and your contextual reference, using a complete real profile.
Publish your original guide or annual privacy report and add useful contextual website links through the Hotspot Editor.
Submit/pitch startup listing or story.
Become an author and sell scripts or plugins, linking your site from your profile.
Publish/pitch dev-tool article if accepted.
Sell game, 3D or Unreal assets as a seller and link your studio site.
Publish legitimate product/company announcement.
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.