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 comprehensive tutorial around a reusable privacy, file-processing, accessibility, or security technique, with your tool only as a natural example.
Tag and publish a public Go module with module docs and repository metadata so pkg.go.dev indexes it.
Join the partner platform and create your secure service with genuinely useful triggers, queries, and actions, pass endpoint tests and review, then publish helpful Applets for real user workflows.
Build an Intercom app for intentional conversation privacy scanning or sanitized export generation and include your clear install or learn-more URL.
Build and host a useful Jotform widget, register it with full documentation and send it for approval.
Publish your clean benchmark or open dataset plus a reproducible notebook, with proper licensing and the canonical project URL in the data card.
Publish an original, human-verified privacy or accessibility benchmark with complete methodology, provenance, schema, license, and a relevant project citation.
Upload your original audio explainer and place relevant resource links naturally in the show description.
Build and test a Netlify extension, publish it publicly, then submit it for review and directory listing.
Create a useful quickstart for monitoring your real deployment, with instrumentation instructions, a working data source, dashboards, alerts, documentation, and a GitHub contribution.
Publish @your tool/embed or utility package with homepage.
Publish a free mini-course on privacy, redaction, scam detection, or accessibility with genuine your tool exercises in the curriculum.
Submit your desktop or mobile app through their developer contact so it gets a download page.
Build a useful Splunk app or add-on for legitimate your tool security, audit, or operational data; package it with clear documentation, icons, screenshots, release metadata, and support details.
Host or claim your genuine show, verify the RSS email, and publish accurate episode notes with relevant HTTPS resources.
Build a polished Unity editor utility or SDK for your relevant service and submit it with demos, documentation and support details.
Build your Vercel integration, distribute its page, gain adoption, then apply for Marketplace visibility.
Create tutorials for top your tool tools with links.
Build a minimal-scope Zoom app that sends selected meeting content to your explicit privacy or redaction workflow and links its support, privacy, and documentation pages.
Create/claim company profile linking your tool/Anslation.
Host your genuine privacy/tool workshop or webinar; add your tool in the organizer website field and useful event description.
Build and document your Odoo module, register its repository, and upload a maintained free or paid listing.
Verify the organization, claim any legitimate your tool location, and add logo, hours, images, website, and key details.
Submit your genuine podcast RSS feed in Podcasts Connect and include the official show website in valid metadata.
Propose a lived-experience frontend article on accessible tool interfaces, privacy-safe browser APIs, CSS, or performance.
Publish #showdev article about client-side privacy tools.
Pitch a practical, outcome-based tutorial on client-side privacy, accessible UI, or web safety using original examples and an honest author identity.
Create seller profile and list product if eligible.
Write an original technical article about a broadly useful browser-security, privacy, or accessibility technique and cite your tool only when it is a necessary working example.
Publish a detailed build or usage tutorial around your original workflow, with the relevant tool link only where it helps readers.
Build and upload your useful IntelliJ-platform plugin with vendor, license, source, support and compatibility links.
Create a monday app that runs selected board exports through your privacy, accessibility, or reporting workflow and provides documented results.
Read the blog's submission guidelines, then send a detailed pitch for an in-depth SEO tutorial or case study with original data.
Apply to become a contributor with writing samples, then pitch practical, data-backed SEO or PPC pieces to the editors.
Use the contributor link in the site footer to apply, then pitch original search marketing analysis or tactics from your own work.
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.
Pitch a practical privacy-by-design, accessibility, frontend-security, or local-first tooling article backed by real your tool lessons.
Pitch a rigorous developer-facing article about secure file handling, browser privacy, accessibility testing, or tool architecture.
Pitch original your tool data, an AI/privacy industry argument, or a consequential product launch to the relevant desk.
Create company page and publish case-study posts.
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.