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.
Create vendor profile and collect authentic reviews.
Create a free provider profile for your agency and collect client reviews.
Publish your design article on Medium, then submit it to the publication following their submission instructions.
Publish an original, useful privacy or digital-safety guide and mention your resource only when it directly supports the guidance.
If your organisation or product meets notability rules, create an item with official website and sourced statements.
Create a free UK business listing with your category, contact details and website.
Pitch your tool founder/product story.
Create a public privacy-tool research library with credible standards, papers, and references, including only genuinely relevant your tool 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.
Add your UK business listing so it appears in their business search.
Publish React UI components and link your site from your author profile.
Add or claim your business entry and link your website.
Add your tool website listing.
Submit your AI product to their tool directory with category and description.
Publish backlink tracker/content calendar template.
Submit your open-source Android library with its repository link.
Submit a link to an Android article, library or tool through the site.
Upload your Android app through their developer console.
Set up a creator account and add your website and socials.
Create maintained Bazel rules or a module that invokes your real security utility, then submit it to BCR.
Publish UI/brand case study for your tool.
Submit your site URL for the curated design gallery.
Submit your design portfolio or resume for the curated gallery.
Register a username and add your website to the page.
Create public repo for embed SDK/example package.
Add your blog with its RSS feed and pick a category.
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.