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 account, wait cooldown if new, submit your tool as platform alternative.
Request an Analyst Briefing and complete the company survey with product, customer, growth, funding, and market evidence.
Apply as a company and accurately describe your tool C2PA or content-provenance tools and intended participation.
Complete the current CAIQ or AI-CAIQ truthfully and submit your tool real cloud service to the STAR Registry.
Add standards-valid CycloneDX support, then submit your structured entry through the official contribution workflow.
Deploy your maintained MCP server from GitHub, Docker, npm, or PyPI, verify maintainer ownership, and switch it public only after production testing.
Publish a genuinely reusable privacy or accessibility lesson on your tool, give it a stable URL and open license, then add its educational metadata to MERLOT.
Open-source your well-scoped component, document its governance, tests, security process, and complete the passing-badge self-assessment.
Create your public workspace with sanitized API collections, examples, documentation, and a canonical homepage link on the publisher profile.
Launch your platform first; prepare maker comment and assets.
List your stable API with OpenAPI definitions, clear endpoints, health checks and its official website in the permitted listing field.
Submit platform, add competitor alternatives, verify domain email.
Publish a genuine hosted, external, or stdio MCP server exposing a small set of consent-based your tool utilities with complete metadata and documentation.
Submit the company website and concise product, market, founder, funding, and traction details for analyst review.
Build your Forge-based integration for Jira or Confluence, create a Marketplace Partner profile, and submit a compliant public listing.
Submit a sharp founder-authored opinion based on real privacy or security evidence discovered while building your tool.
Publish your real privacy, redaction, or local-AI demo Space and add your canonical URL in its README/metadata.
Publish a real, documented your tool API, complete its Hub listing with accurate website and terms URLs, and optionally offer a free usage tier.
Build and test your useful piece with real actions, publish the package under a unique organization scope, and maintain version compatibility.
Build a privacy-safe macOS Alfred workflow that opens or runs useful your tool actions, publish it on the forum, gather feedback, and seek Gallery inclusion.
Build a useful Anki privacy, study-safety, or accessibility add-on, package it as .ankiaddon, and upload it through AnkiWeb.
Create a tested Ansible collection for supported your tool deployment or audit automation, complete galaxy.yml, version it, and publish with a Galaxy token.
Create your real Airflow provider with hooks/operators and documentation metadata, publish it, then add it to Airflow’s Ecosystem page by PR.
When your tool exposes a stable public API, host an official OpenAPI definition at a permanent URL and submit it with accurate ownership, category, logo, and metadata.
Build a pipeline plugin that runs your tool checks on selected artifacts and posts configurable pass, warn, or fail annotations.
List product under software categories.
Create a transparent human profile and publish a beginner-friendly build log or tutorial showing how one your tool privacy utility works and what tradeoffs it has.
Build an original interactive demo of your utility, document the use case in Pen Details, and add your tool as one of the public profile links.
Publish a small open demo that explains one your tool algorithm or UI pattern and add the product website to the founder profile links.
Create a complete founder and startup profile for your tool and participate in relevant founder discussions or connection requests.
Complete the founder's developer profile, add your tool as real project experience, and publish useful privacy or security engineering posts with contextual links.
Build your privacy or security field plugin, publish the npm package, and use your tool as its homepage and support site.
Publish your genuine Directus extension to npm and complete author, documentation, support, and website metadata.
Build a DokuWiki privacy, redaction, accessibility, or secure-export plugin, publish its code and create the canonical plugin page used by the extension directory.
Publish a functional Eclipse plugin for your developer use case, then create a complete marketplace listing with official support and source links.
Offer a substantial free privacy checklist, accessibility workbook, or safety template from a branded storefront and link your tool only as supporting documentation.
Create a functional Framer plugin for accessibility, metadata, responsive-content, or privacy checks and publish it with your tool documentation.
Build your useful -related Frappe app, publish it through Frappe Cloud Marketplace, and include the official project/site link in its genuine listing.
Complete a relevant accessibility or privacy-themed challenge, submit its real live URL and public repository, and add your tool only as maker context or a case-study link.
Register an authorized Indian business seller and list only real eligible your tool services with accurate catalogue details.
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.