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 your real OpenAPI definition publicly with an accurate description and external documentation URL.
Develop a neutral, sourced learning project about privacy, accessibility, or online-scam literacy and cite your tool only in relevant exercises.
Build a genuine founder or designer profile and publish your detailed UX, accessibility, or privacy-design case study with accurate role and process credits.
Package your free-software self-hosted deployment, implement reliable install, upgrade, backup and restore operations, then submit it to the official app catalog.
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.
Submit your genuine podcast RSS feed in Podcasts Connect and include the official show website in valid metadata.
Pitch a practical, outcome-based tutorial on client-side privacy, accessible UI, or web safety using original examples and an honest author identity.
Publish your real webinar, demo or workshop with a contextual canonical link in its event details.
Submit a formal publication, case study, educational resource or on-demand training linking digital resilience to disaster-risk reduction.
Publish your focused open demo or developer utility and link its canonical your tool page from the app and project description.
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.
Apply using your India-registered company/startup and provide the required entity and revenue documents.
Create a real founder or researcher portfolio containing original your tool engineering, privacy, and accessibility articles already published under that person's byline.
Publish a genuine browser or desktop your tool utility with screenshots, documentation and an official-site link.
Document a real participatory public-decision deployment as a Case, Method or Organization entry with evaluations and project URL.
Build a ProcessWire admin module for external URL, metadata, accessibility or security audits, register as a module author and submit it to the official directory.
Register a stable, genuinely research-used your tool software, service, or database with accurate maintainer and version metadata.
Publish an original UI/UX visual case study showing your tool interaction design, accessibility states, and design process, with a contextual project URL.
Build a deployable edge privacy utility or reusable block, add balena.yml metadata, public source, configuration and multi-device tests, then publish it on balenaHub.
Package your maintained self-hosted deployment as a Juju charm with canonical documentation, source, and support links.
Create an age-appropriate digital-citizenship or privacy FlexBook chapter with practical your tool exercises.
Create and fully test your Docker Compose service template, add metadata, logo, and documentation, then submit it to Coolify's next branch.
Submit your genuine -maintained database, reusable reporting standard, or data policy with complete stewardship metadata.
After releasing your real CLI or native app, submit a tested formula or cask with its canonical homepage.
Join an approved organization and publish a documented humanitarian privacy/safety dataset with licence and responsible-access settings.
After your tool has a stable, commonly used JSON or YAML configuration format, contribute its accurate schema and test fixtures so editors can provide validation, completion, and tooltips.
Apply with your concrete privacy, security or user-autonomy FOSS work package, milestones, budget and public repository.
Create a maintained Omeka S module for collection metadata privacy, accessibility or link auditing, package it correctly and register the add-on with project and author links.
Create a public reproducibility project for your tool research, datasets, test methods, or privacy benchmarks and link the genuine project/site.
After your tool has eligible ReliefWeb content, request publishing access and submit humanitarian reports or training from verified owned URLs.
Launch your properly scoped vulnerability disclosure or public bug-bounty program.
Launch your defensive vulnerability disclosure or public bug-bounty program with managed researcher access.
Publish a Canadian-ready, openly licensed privacy or digital-citizenship textbook and use Contribute → Suggest a Textbook.
Launch your real educational podcast, complete its public site, and cite relevant tools and sources in useful show notes.
Publish a polished original guide, research brief, or accessibility zine as a public document, with useful references and your relevant link inside the editorial content.
Create an authentic your tool or founder design portfolio with substantive case studies and contextual links to shipped tools.
Create your complete product case study and add the canonical URL naturally within project text or a linked image.
Pitch an original evidence-backed privacy, scam, or cyber advisory based on genuine your tool research.
Publish a mature open-source interoperability or public-administration solution with documentation, releases, licence, and owner metadata.
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.