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 polished public your tool demos and use their share links in genuine tutorials or reproducible examples.
Launch a public-interest digital-safety community and publish substantial methods, reports, and tutorials with contextual your tool references.
Publish your focused open demo or developer utility and link its canonical your tool page from the app and project description.
Publish a synthetic benchmark for screenshot redaction, document masking, or visual privacy detection.
Apply with an original class outline and teaching sample for privacy-safe design, accessibility, or a practical productivity workflow, then build the class project and lessons if approved.
Publish your original research, privacy or accessibility deck with useful citations and contextual links.
Create a truthful founder or subject-matter expert page and feature your tool in relevant bio, talks and media.
Create a vendor account, add your tool as a SaaS product and complete the platform's authenticity validation.
Build and test your API integration, then request publication in Albato's public app library.
Publish your privacy-checking notebook, synthetic benchmark, AI model, app, or defensive MCP server.
Propose a truthful lifetime, annual, credit-based, or freebie campaign with clear limits and customer support terms.
Submit a truthful MSME membership request with your tool entity, business, contact and website details.
Apply using your India-registered company/startup and provide the required entity and revenue documents.
Create a reusable UiPath automation that invokes your documented workflow such as a local file privacy check and publish it under a verified profile.
Build a tested Workato connector for legitimate your tool triggers and actions, add clear support and usage documentation, publish it to the community library, and provide simple successful community recipes.
Ship your real iOS or macOS app and add the product, support and privacy URLs in App Store Connect.
Submit only your tool tools with a clear civic or public-interest use case, using the official project name, URL, one-sentence description, accurate category, and contact email.
Sponsor your frontend, accessibility, CSS, or developer utility with a useful demo and audience-specific copy.
Publish a documented synthetic privacy, redaction, accessibility, or scam-detection benchmark dataset.
Promote a privacy-respecting or thoughtfully designed your tool utility through a classified or main sponsor slot.
Submit your tool strongest AI-powered utilities with a polished listing.
Build a Freshdesk or Freshservice app that deliberately sends selected ticket text to your PII or scam check and returns a transparent report.
Publish your genuine Android app and use the website, support and privacy-policy fields for official links.
Enroll your eligible entity as a small-organization Associate Corporate member and opt into the directory.
Choose an appropriate corporate, partner or vendor tier and apply with your tool genuine identity-security work.
Publish an Inkscape extension for SVG metadata cleanup, privacy inspection, or accessible-export checks.
Use the organization signup path and participate in relevant identity, privacy or assurance working groups.
Build a Mendix connector or module that invokes your tool on user-selected records or files and displays structured reports.
After becoming a genuine member, submit your tool as a completed web project with a plain factual description in MetaFilter Projects only.
Join as an eligible small business and opt in to publication of your tool organization name and profile.
Build an OBS privacy guard that detects exposed secrets or sensitive screen regions before streaming.
Build an ONLYOFFICE plugin for document redaction, metadata cleanup, or secret scanning.
Apply for fiscal hosting only for your legitimate open-source project or community with active development, public impact, and preferably two project administrators.
Join as a small organization if your tool genuinely implements or contributes to OpenID, OAuth or related identity standards.
Offer a standalone, vendor-neutral security tool or documentation project with open governance and a committed leader, then submit the official new-project request.
Create the product in PitchGround's vendor dashboard and prepare a tested redemption, onboarding, documentation, and support flow.
Build a Sentry integration that detects PII or credentials before issue data is exported or shared.
Create a substantive privacy, security, or accessibility lesson using your tool exercises and propose it through the Incubator.
Create a Zendesk app or marketing-only integration for selected-ticket PII and scam checks with your tool support and pricing links.
Build a Zoho extension for document privacy, text cleanup, or data-export checks and submit its support, policy, guide, and website links.
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.