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 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.
List your stable API with OpenAPI definitions, clear endpoints, health checks and its official website in the permitted listing field.
Create your real Airflow provider with hooks/operators and documentation metadata, publish it, then add it to Airflow’s Ecosystem page by PR.
Build a pipeline plugin that runs your tool checks on selected artifacts and posts configurable pass, warn, or fail annotations.
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.
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.
Create a functional Hexo plugin for your relevant capability, publish the package, then add its record to Hexo's official plugin data repository.
Publish a real .NET library or CLI package with ProjectUrl, readme, repository and license metadata.
Build a unique and useful Obsidian plugin, create valid releases and submit it to the community plugin directory.
Add or claim your genuine open-source project and complete its description, code locations, tags and official homepage.
Add native OpenTelemetry support or build your useful instrumentation or utility, then submit its registry metadata and documentation links.
Build a Pipedrive OAuth integration for safe note export, duplicate cleanup, or PII auditing and submit your unique listing.
Publish your stable module or script with ProjectURI, LicenseURI, tags, help and examples.
Publish your Dart package with homepage, repository, issue tracker, documentation and a complete readme.
Build a public RingCentral integration around call-note privacy or safe file sharing and complete the profile with your tool documentation, privacy, and support links.
Upload an original conference-quality PDF deck explaining privacy-safe tooling or accessibility testing, with a useful description, correct category, references, and an honest profile link.
Join a relevant chapter, complete the founder profile, attend suitable events, and share your tool only in genuine networking context.
Publish an original dashboard using public your tool benchmark or ecosystem data and add an appropriate project permalink in workbook details.
Build a TYPO3 backend extension for selected content or media PII, metadata, and accessibility checks.
Create your Umbraco integration package and point its NuGet project URL plus documentation to your tool.
Register your concrete ongoing initiative with measurable milestones, dates, resources, SDG targets, partners and website evidence.
Build a production Webex integration or bot for deliberate sharing of your tool checklists or sanitized files, then submit its branded App Hub profile.
Build a tool that genuinely interacts with Wikimedia, publish accurate toolinfo.json metadata, and register it through Toolhub UI, crawler, or API.
Publish a genuine Perl module or CLI through PAUSE with project URLs and clear distribution documentation.
Enter a relevant live hackathon with your working project, complete its story and demo, and include the project website where allowed.
Publish a privacy-respecting open-source Android companion app, then file a packaging request or merge request.
Create your truthful /founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed.
Release a useful Haskell library or command-line client with homepage, source and bug-report metadata.
Create your truthful /founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed.
Build a functional Jellyfin privacy, metadata-cleanup, or local-safety plugin with a maintained manifest repository, then propose its repository and documentation entry.
Create a truthful scholarly profile and deposit an original privacy, accessibility, or digital-humanities paper or teaching resource with its related your tool URL.
Build a stable open-source RabbitMQ plugin for your legitimate security/privacy workflow and ask the RabbitMQ team to list it.
Publish an original educational 3D asset connected to your real tutorial, with accurate credits and a contextual project link in the description.
Build and upload a genuinely useful Vim privacy or secret-checking plugin with your tool documentation and a relevant project link.
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.