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title: "Software directories: the low-hanging fruit most founders ignore | Alphie Blog"
description: "Software directories are the easiest high-authority backlinks you can get. The 16 Alphie is listed on, what they cost, and what it did to our Domain Rating."
last_updated: "2026-11-12"
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I doubled Alphie's inbound organic traffic in 1 week using a low-hanging fruit most founders ignore.

I'm talking about listings.

## Why listings work

The logic of Google's algorithm is simple. Actually, it's not simple at all (and they keep changing it every few months), but here is the gist: get links to your website from websites that have high authority. Software directories are the easiest way to get them: you fill in a form, and a site with far more authority than yours links back.

## Where Alphie is listed

Everybody knows about Product Hunt and G2. But there are a ton of others. Here are some Alphie is listed on:

- [Capterra](https://www.capterra.com)
- [Crunchbase](https://www.crunchbase.com)
- [Wellfound](https://wellfound.com)
- [F6S](https://www.f6s.com)
- [BetaList](https://betalist.com)
- [Owler](https://www.owler.com)
- [AlternativeTo](https://alternativeto.net)
- [SaaSHub](https://www.saashub.com)
- [SourceForge](https://sourceforge.net)
- [TrustRadius](https://www.trustradius.com)
- [There's An AI For That](https://theresanaiforthat.com)
- [Futurepedia](https://www.futurepedia.io)
- [Toolify](https://www.toolify.ai)
- [SaaSworthy](https://www.saasworthy.com)
- [Startup Stash](https://startupstash.com)
- [Tekpon](https://tekpon.com)

Most are free; a few charge $30-250 to list.

Result: our Domain Rating went from 19 to 24 in 4 days, and traffic more than doubled.

## Two more things worth doing

- Get your customers to review you on G2. A listing with zero reviews is a dead end. G2 pages rank high for "best X software" searches, and AI assistants quote them when someone asks which tool to buy. Ask right after a win, and send the direct review link.
- Get a business address. Every listing asks for one, and you don't want your home address on a dozen websites. We use [Stable](https://www.usestable.com) (YC W20).

Best part: Claude can do most of this for you. Email me at [yura@meetalphie.com](mailto:yura@meetalphie.com) and I'll share our skill file.

One note: avoid the backlink farms. At best you'll waste time, at worst -- Google can blacklist your domain. Rule of thumb: respectable listings usually don't cold-email you 😅

[First posted on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7521222897898684416/)

#### Yura Riphyak

CEO of Alphie

Yura is building the future of intelligent GTM at Alphie. Previously, he co-founded YouTeam (YC W18, acquired by Toptal) and Hubbub.fm.

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