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.
Launch a human-reviewed Privacy & Accessibility Field Notes newsletter with original experiments, implementation lessons, and contextually relevant links to your tool resources.
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.
Submit fresh module/your tool beta angle, not stale generic site.
Submit your founder-written product or privacy case study with concrete decisions, evidence, failures, and lessons for product practitioners.
Email your genuinely newsworthy podcast or audio-tool launch story with concise facts, human artwork, and release timing.
Upload a guide, report or catalog as a public publication and add your website to the profile and description.
Create your truthful /founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed.
Claim your company page and invite real customers to leave reviews.
List software in relevant category.
Create your truthful /founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed.
Create your truthful /founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed.
Launch your real educational podcast, complete its public site, and cite relevant tools and sources in useful show notes.
Build a substantive product-design case study covering your tool system, flows, and outcomes, then add the canonical site through supported navigation or project links.
Create an authentic your tool or founder design portfolio with substantive case studies and contextual links to shipped tools.
Publish your original privacy or accessibility guide and add contextual clickable links within the document.
Create company/software listing.
Host your API or product documentation on ReadMe and link back to your main site and app.
Submit product for review/listing.
Pitch/write article about privacy-first browser tools.
Apply with a genuine technical portfolio and propose an original mobile privacy tutorial aligned with Kodeco's listed subject areas.
Pitch an original Python privacy, document-safety, or local-processing tutorial based on real your tool engineering lessons.
Create company profile if your tool/Anslation has service angle.
Write a useful guide in Craft and share it as a public web page with links to your site.
Create a deck or one-page doc and publish it to the web with links to your site.
Publish a digital magazine, report or brochure and link to your site from the listing.
Design an infographic with your own data and publish a public link that points back to your site.
Create a presentation about your product or research and share it publicly with a link to your site.
Create an infographic or presentation and publish it to the web with a link to your site.
Create official tutorials/mirror with links.
Host a podcast on the free tier and link to your site from the show page and episode notes.
Make mini landing page for your tool categories linking home/tools.
Add or claim your tool only if it has a genuine US business presence, then verify the website and business details.
Publish a chart from your own data and add your site as the source link.
Pitch/list company/tool if category fits.
Publish an interactive chart or story from your own data and credit your site in the source note.
Run your genuine privacy/security publication and add contextual links in original posts and About pages.
Create a chart or infographic from your data and share it publicly with a source link to your site.
Use the free plan to publish a public newsletter archive or landing page that links to your site.
Publish your OpenAPI definition publicly on SwaggerHub with a link to your product docs.
Submit startup for coverage/listing.
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.