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 a tested Chef cookbook for supported your tool deployment or hardening, add complete metadata and source, then share it to Supermarket.
Create startup profile and link website.
Create your truthful /founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed.
Create software vendor listing.
Post how to embed your tool calculators in Ghost after /embed live.
Mirror open-source embed SDK or examples with homepage link.
Submit B2B software listing.
Build a real founder profile and answer narrowly relevant questions, linking to your resource only when it directly substantiates the answer.
Create your truthful /founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed.
Create startup profile if hiring/startup positioning.
Publish privacy/helper extension.
Release your genuinely free-software desktop or self-hosted component with free documentation and transparent downloads, then submit a custom directory entry.
Create your truthful /founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed.
Create a public searchable board that teaches a privacy workflow and links to supporting standards, guides, and relevant your tool utilities.
Create a structured collection about privacy-preserving web utilities and mix selected your tool pages with respected references.
Build and test a Puppet module for supported your tool setup or security policy, complete metadata.json, package it, and publish through a Forge account.
Post to relevant subs with context: SideProject, SaaS, webdev.
Submit only your substantive free-software component that runs primarily on free systems and needs authentic Savannah project hosting and collaboration.
Create your truthful /founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed.
Publish a public Webmix of trustworthy privacy resources with clearly labeled your tool tiles among independent sources.
Create clean founder/product profile linking your tool.
Create visual link hub for your tool categories.
Create your truthful /founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed.
Create your tool link hub for top pages.
Create boards for PDF/image/calculator tools linking pages.
List software in relevant category.
Create software listing/vendor profile.
Create your truthful /founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed.
Create your truthful /founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed.
Create profile, build-in-public threads, link homepage.
After security readiness, launch a properly scoped public VDP or bounty program with safe-harbor language, assets, response SLAs and funded rewards where applicable.
Build a substantive product-design case study covering your tool system, flows, and outcomes, then add the canonical site through supported navigation or project links.
Create company/software listing.
Post technical/product story with canonical link.
Curate a public online-privacy topic page and add expert notes to a diverse mix of industry sources and your tool guides.
Claim business profile for your tool.
Create vendor profile and collect authentic reviews.
Develop a production-grade WooCommerce extension for privacy-safe exports or media cleanup and submit it through an approved vendor account.
Submit product for review/listing.
Pitch/write article about privacy-first browser tools.
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.