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Every kind of backlink opportunity, checked by hand
Most lists of backlink opportunities were written once and never touched again. This one gets swept, and we publish what we removed and why.
Every entry carries two things almost nobody else publishes honestly: whether the link is actually dofollow, checked on a live listing, and what it actually costs. Pick the category that matches your situation below. If you are not sure which one that is, start with local citations if you have a physical address and web directories if you do not.
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Start with the type that fits your situation
Web directories
General directories anyone can submit to. The oldest category and the one with the most dead entries still being recommended.
12 entries5 free4 dofollow
Local citations
For businesses with a real address. The only category where the country you are in genuinely changes the answer.
34 entries13 free9 dofollow
Guest post sites
Places that will publish something you wrote. The most work per link and the most value per link.
10 entries10 free5 dofollow
Product and startup directories
Where to list software. High traffic, and almost all of it nofollow, which nobody tells you.
13 entries6 free3 dofollow
Blog submission sites
Built for RSS readers and mostly never updated since. A small number still work.
10 entries6 free6 dofollow
SaaS link set
The same entries as the product directories page, reordered for a bootstrapped software founder.
19 entries12 free8 dofollow
Local business link set
What a trade business should do first, second and third. Ordered by what feeds the map pack.
22 entries10 free3 dofollow
More industries
Healthcare, legal, ecommerce, real estate and finance. One new set a month, each with its own curation.
Not built yet
A word on expectations, because it belongs on the first page rather than buried. Submitting to directories will not move a competitive keyword on its own. What it does is put a floor under a site with nothing, get you indexed faster, and fix the data consistency problems that hold local businesses back in the map pack. Anyone promising more than that is selling something.
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