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.
Complete the current CAIQ or AI-CAIQ truthfully and submit your tool real cloud service to the STAR Registry.
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.
Build your Forge-based integration for Jira or Confluence, create a Marketplace Partner profile, and submit a compliant public listing.
Publish a real, documented your tool API, complete its Hub listing with accurate website and terms URLs, and optionally offer a free usage tier.
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.
Register an authorized Indian business seller and list only real eligible your tool services with accurate catalogue details.
Search for and claim your real podcast, then keep its RSS-supplied website and episode metadata accurate.
Submit your real podcast RSS feed whose show website and episode notes naturally reference relevant tools.
Publish your useful editor extension whose marketplace metadata links to its homepage and documentation.
Build your tool triggers/actions, submit them to the public registry by GitHub PR, and address review feedback.
Submit your genuine podcast RSS feed or Apple Podcasts URL with accurate show-website and episode metadata.
Submit your real public podcast RSS feed whose metadata and episode notes reference the official site naturally.
Propose your qualifying open-source privacy project through the official contribution process.
Create a founder expert profile and submit substantive talks about privacy-first tools, accessibility or web security.
Publish a maintained Terraform provider for your tool stable API, or a genuinely reusable deployment module, with signed releases, generated documentation, examples, tests, and semantic versions.
Submit your real public MCP server repository with correct name, install steps and configuration details.
Submit a corporate membership enquiry with accurate your tool cybersecurity/privacy activities and India entity details.
Ask SelectHub to create or claim your profile and provide product capabilities, pricing, case studies, and customer proof.
Apply through the official Linux Foundation enrollment if your tool will genuinely implement or contribute to C2PA standards.
Propose a concrete funded or in-kind your tool anti-scam, privacy or cyber-safety collaboration through Become a Partner.
Build your working automation Actor, publish it to the Store and include contextual project/documentation links.
Package your legitimate desktop app as an official AppImage, then file the requested issue or pull request for inclusion.
If your property genuinely uses Astro, use the Submit site action to propose it for the public showcase.
Create your public package repository for genuine releases and complete its namespace, description, licence and source/homepage metadata.
Publish a genuine iOS or macOS your tool SDK and set homepage/source URLs in its podspec.
After releasing a genuinely Django-relevant open-source component, sign in and add its GitHub or GitLab repository and accurate project links.
Release a useful Haxe SDK or privacy utility and set haxelib.json's URL to your relevant documentation page.
Publish a genuine browser or desktop your tool utility with screenshots, documentation and an official-site link.
Build your functional Joomla integration and submit a complete listing with an approved download route.
Create your project team, connect verified project accounts, and describe the official website and repository contextually.
Release your reusable -related security or privacy module from a correctly named public GitHub repository.
Search for your tool; submit an accurate profile update or request research coverage with authoritative company data and website.
Build your tool actions as a Raycast extension and publish through the official GitHub PR workflow.
An eligible active researcher can publish genuine your tool studies, code or datasets and add the official website where appropriate.
Publish and maintain a tested Scoop manifest for your actual portable Windows CLI or app.
Archive your genuine public source repository and add its resulting SWHID permalink to release and citation metadata.
Build a functional privacy, accessibility or security add-on, publish it on Packagist and create its Marketplace product page.
If your tool maker genuinely offers related services, add the project as a detailed portfolio item with role, outcomes, visuals, and permitted project links.
Create your accurate startup profile and complete its product, team, traction and website 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.