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 real developer profile, publish your original engineering tutorial or project, and join only relevant privacy or developer communities.
Create your truthful /founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed.
Mirror open-source embed SDK or examples with homepage link.
Create your truthful /founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed.
Create brand/founder profile with verified links.
Create your truthful /founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed.
Apply with a privacy/digital-safety education program that demonstrates real K-12 impact and scalability.
Create your project team, connect verified project accounts, and describe the official website and repository contextually.
Create your truthful /founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed.
Search for your tool; submit an accurate profile update or request research coverage with authoritative company data and website.
An eligible active researcher can publish genuine your tool studies, code or datasets and add the official website where appropriate.
Publish an original educational 3D asset connected to your real tutorial, with accurate credits and a contextual project link in the description.
Create your truthful /founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed.
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 a genuine founder profile and share a useful build story or tutorial with a relevant link.
Create your truthful /founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed.
Participate as a real developer with original lessons and honest build stories; reference your tool only if a specific discussion genuinely calls for the working example.
Use a real developer profile and contribute tested solutions on Discourse integrations, accessibility, or privacy only when the team has genuine implementation experience.
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.
Join with a transparent identity and answer relevant IT/privacy questions from direct experience; mention your resource only when it materially completes a specific answer.
Create your truthful /founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed.
Create clean founder/product profile linking your tool.
Publish genuine authored your tool research and add matching project or supporting-material URLs in the paper metadata.
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 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 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 one authentic your tool brand page; link the homepage and a few key tool collections with clear labels.
Create a truthful guest profile, add expertise and collaboration preferences, then respond to relevant interview requests.
Create your organization, set its official website, and publish a real free or paid digital product or subscription.
If your organisation or product meets notability rules, create an item with official website and sourced statements.
After publishing a mature security policy and VDP, contact the Secretariat to apply as a signatory to all four principles.
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.