Free Dofollow backlink for your startup or agency
Get a free permanent dofollow backlink on Sharebrand.com, a DR44 domain. No account, no payment, no catch. Submit your startup or agency in under a minute.
Getting a backlink costs money now. Not a lot per listing, but it compounds fast. You start submitting to directories at $9 here, $19 there, $29 for a featured slot, $49 for a "premium" placement. Three weeks in and you have spent several hundred dollars across a mix of directories, most of which pass nofollow links, some of which have domain ratings so low they contribute nothing to your rankings, and a few that are genuinely useful.
This is the reality of backlink building for early-stage founders. The market has fragmented into hundreds of directories, many of them built specifically to extract small fees from people who know they need backlinks but do not have the budget to be selective. The SEO value varies wildly and is rarely disclosed upfront. You are often buying discovery — the chance that someone finds your listing — more than actual link equity.
We know this because we have been doing it for Sharebrand.
What we built and why
Sharebrand runs two directories: one for startups at sharebrand.com/startups and one for agencies at sharebrand.com/agencies. Every listing gets a permanent dofollow backlink on sharebrand.com. No account required, no payment, no attribution. You submit, we review within 48 hours, and if your product or agency is legitimate you get listed.
When we launched the directories, sharebrand.com was DR36. It is DR44 now and still climbing. We have been building backlinks consistently — from publications, from genuine directory submissions, from the alternative comparison articles we publish — and every startup listed in our directory benefits from that same growing domain authority.
The reason we keep it free is straightforward. Directory fees are a tax on founders who are already stretched thin. We have the infrastructure. We built the directory for our own SEO purposes. Opening it for free costs us nothing and helps people who are in the same position we were six months ago.
What you actually get
A permanent dofollow link from sharebrand.com. No expiry, no renewal fee, no "sponsored" or "nofollow" fine print. The link is a standard HTML anchor pointing to your domain with rel set to nothing, which means search engines follow it and pass equity.
Sharebrand.com currently has a Ahrefs Domain Rating of 44. For context, that puts it ahead of most niche directories and well-positioned to pass meaningful link equity. The domain is growing because we are actively building more backlinks and publishing more indexed content. The DR today is not the DR in six months.
Listings are reviewed manually. If your product or agency is real and your website is live, you will be approved. We are not gatekeeping. We are just making sure the directory is useful for the people who browse it.
Who should submit
Any SaaS product, startup, tool, or agency with a live website. It does not need to be related to file sharing or anything in our niche. The directory is a general startup and agency listing, not a curated industry-specific resource.
If you are building backlinks for a new product and looking for free dofollow placements on established domains, this is one of the few genuinely free ones available right now.
How to submit
Go to sharebrand.com/startups. Fill in your product name, URL, a short description, and a category. No account creation. No email verification loop. Submit and we review within 48 hours.
We are keeping the first 1000 listings free. There are 984 spots remaining at the time of writing. After that we will reassess the model. Get listed while it is free.
