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.
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.
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.
Pitch a practical privacy-tool engineering article, code walkthrough, or review grounded in your tool implementation experience.
Pitch a reproducible tutorial about CI checks for client-side privacy, dependency security, or accessible web tools, with your tool only as a genuine example.
Build a Nova extension that runs your tool privacy and code-safety checks from the editor.
Build a Sketch plugin for accessibility, metadata cleanup, or sensitive-placeholder detection.
Build a destination or function that sends only explicitly selected and sanitized events to your tool for PII or schema checks.
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 an Inkscape extension for SVG metadata cleanup, privacy inspection, or accessible-export checks.
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.
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.
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.
Pitch a crafted, original interactive tutorial or demo about client-side privacy visualization, inclusive motion, or accessible creative tooling, with source and a working demo.
Publish your genuinely newsworthy launch, major privacy-tool release, original data report, or partnership with one contextual site link.
Publish your factual milestone or research announcement with a clean landing-page URL and media assets.
Create your UK-relevant story or hosted newsroom announcement with useful assets and restrained links.
Use your major product update, benchmark report, or partnership story with one clear media angle.
Monitor relevant journalist requests and answer only when your tool has direct expertise, data, or a credible founder quote.
Distribute a concise news release about your significant launch, study, award, or partnership.
Curate a tagged public collection of authoritative privacy, accessibility, and safety resources with your tool included only where substantively relevant.
Register your genuinely life-science-focused resource with stable homepage, scientific operations, inputs, outputs, licence, and documentation.
Build your useful Budibase component or data-source plugin, publish the package or repository, and seek inclusion in community plugin resources.
Create a tested CapRover one-click definition for your real self-hosted service and contribute it to the linked official community repository.
Release a genuine Clojure or JVM client library with a POM, description, homepage and source metadata.
Build a genuine CWL validator, security tool, or implementation and propose its inclusion with compliance evidence.
Create a real developer profile, publish your original engineering tutorial or project, and join only relevant privacy or developer communities.
Build a functional Contao bundle for your site-audit use case, publish tagged releases on Packagist with contao-bundle and manager-plugin metadata, and let the official index discover it.
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.