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Where to submit your product for backlinks

Launch platforms, directories, review sites and communities that still send real traffic and real links — rated honestly, including the ones that are not worth your afternoon.

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166 sites
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10 categories
Last reviewed
September 3, 2026

How to read this

What the columns mean

Two judgements, stated plainly so you can disagree with them.

Signal
Our overall view of whether a listing is worth the effort: how relevant the audience is, how hard the site moderates, and how likely the listing is to still exist in two years. It is an opinion, not a metric.
Difficulty
How much work a successful listing takes. Easy is a form. Moderate is a form plus a wait or a review. Hard means building something, being invited, or convincing an editor.
No Domain Rating column
We do not publish a DR or DA figure here. We could only estimate it for this many domains, and an estimate printed without an error bar gets read as a measurement. Check your own tool before you commit budget.

Listings change without warning, and a site that was worth submitting to last year may not be today. Verify what a listing costs and what it links back before you spend money.

The directory

166 places to submit

Sorted by signal. Filter by category, or search for something specific.

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Showing 166 of 166 sites

Before you start

How to work through this list

Submitting to a hundred directories in one afternoon is how you get a hundred low-value links and no traffic. This works better.

  1. Write the assets once

    A one-line pitch, a fifty-word description, a two-hundred-word description, a logo on a transparent background, and three screenshots. Almost every form on this page asks for a subset of those, and having them ready turns each submission into two minutes.

  2. Start at the top, not at the bottom

    Work down from high signal. The first ten entries are worth more than the last eighty combined, and if you run out of energy — you will — you want to have run out after the ones that matter.

  3. Spread it over weeks

    A hundred new links to a new domain in a week looks exactly like what it is. Twenty a week for five weeks costs the same effort and reads as a product being launched rather than a profile being inflated.

  4. Spend the saved time on one earned link

    One accepted post on an edited publication is worth more than the entire low-signal half of this page. If you only do one thing, write something genuinely useful and pitch it.

  5. Keep a record of what you submitted

    A spreadsheet with the site, the date, the account you used and the current status. You will need it when a listing goes stale, when a directory asks you to reconfirm, and when you want to know whether any of this worked.

Questions

About directory submissions

Do directory backlinks still work?

Some do. A link from a moderated, relevant directory that sends real visitors is a normal, useful link. A link from a page listing four thousand unrelated products does nothing, and at volume it can look like a pattern you would rather not have. That difference is what the Signal column is trying to capture.

Should I only submit to dofollow sites?

No. Some of the highest-value entries here — Product Hunt, Hacker News, G2, GitHub — are nofollow, and they are on the list because of the traffic, the credibility and the secondary coverage they produce. Check the link type on the site itself if you are specifically building authority, and ignore it when you are looking for customers.

How many should I submit to?

Fewer than you think. Working carefully through the high-signal entries and writing a real description for each will beat a scattergun run through every row on this page. Quality of listing matters as much as choice of site.

Are paid listings worth it?

Sometimes, and the test is traffic rather than the link. If the directory ranks for terms your buyers search and its listings visibly send visitors, a one-off fee can pay for itself. If the only argument for it is the link, it usually does not.

How long before I see anything?

Referral traffic is immediate or never — you will know within a day whether a listing sends visitors. Any search effect takes weeks to months, and is rarely attributable to one link. Judge these on traffic first.

Does Opus Rank submit to these for me?

No. This page is a free resource, not a feature. Opus Rank generates SEO articles — the content you would want ranking once people start finding you. The submitting is yours to do, and we would rather be straight about that than sell you an automation nobody should want.

Once they find you

Getting listed is the easy half. Being worth reading when someone arrives is the other one.

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Links get you found. Content is what they find.

A directory listing brings someone to your site once. Articles that answer what they were searching for are what bring the next thousand.

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