SubmitSaaS Alternative: SaaS Catalogs Are Not All Dofollow

SaaS-specific submission services have an obvious appeal: the catalogs are full of buyers, the listings are permanent, and the forms are short. The catch is the same one that catches every directory buyer — a listing is not a link, and a link is not always followed.

The short answer

If your goal is breadth across many independent catalogues for a small one-off fee, SubmitSaaS does that. If your goal is to know exactly how many followed placements you received and to schedule them around a launch, an owned network answers the question SubmitSaaS structurally cannot. BoostDomainRating runs 50+ indexed, dofollow directories and prices per placement: $30 for 5 links, $50 for 10, $90 for 20, $120 for 30, $140 for 40, $150 for 50 dofollow backlinks, with an Ahrefs DR figure synced daily and a 90-day refund.

What SubmitSaaS does

SubmitSaaS is a submission engine. Paste a product, pick a package, and it files entries into catalogs it does not own, then reports what was accepted, rejected or ignored. The saving is typing; the variable you give up is control over what happens next.

The structural limit

The limit is structural rather than technical. Submissions are an input, placements are an output, and the tool sells only the input. Any promise phrased as a number of backlinks is really a number of forms filed, and the two diverge most on exactly the catalogs that matter.

Why founders look for an alternative

Ownership. Once a founder has paid for two rounds of submissions and still cannot point at a page that improved, the next question is who actually controls the catalog. That question is where an owned network begins.

What to ask before paying

Ask which of the destinations follow outbound product links, and whether that was checked this quarter. SaaS catalogue attributes change quietly, and a two-year-old review is not evidence.

Why ownership keeps coming up

Ownership is the whole difference. When a catalogue we run changes its template, we see it; when a third-party catalogue does, you find out by accident months later.

What SubmitSaaS gets right

Speed and a paper trail. Everything that can be filed without judgement gets filed, and you end up with a list you can hand to a colleague. For early citation coverage — the presence part of the job — that is genuinely useful.

How BoostDomainRating compares

	SubmitSaaS	BoostDomainRating
Who owns the directories	Third parties	Us
Link attributes	Decided by each catalogue	Dofollow across the network
Time to live	Each catalogue’s queue	Immediate
Proof per placement	Submission log	Detail page with daily Ahrefs DR
Pricing shape	Per package	$30 (5 links) to $150 (50 links)
Refund	Vendor policy	90 days

Placements are sold in five steps from $30 (5 links) to $150 (50 dofollow backlinks), with $50, $90 and $120 covering ten, twenty and thirty. The upper tiers exist mostly for agencies running several products at once.

When SubmitSaaS is still the right call

SaaS catalogues are worth submitting to even when they nofollow, because the audience is right. Buy the package as distribution and buy your followed baseline separately.

Two minutes to learn any attribute

You never need to guess whether a listing follows. Open the page, view the source, and search for your URL. The surrounding anchor tag either carries a rel attribute or it does not. Do it once per catalogue and write the answer in the ledger.

Founders skip this because it feels technical. It is the single most useful check in the whole category: a nofollow placement is distribution, a followed one is an asset, and only one of them responds to being bought in bulk.

The audience argument stands on its own

A nofollow listing on a SaaS catalogue that buyers actually read is not a wasted submission. It is a channel with a measurable outcome — referral sessions, signups, occasionally a customer — and it should be judged on those numbers rather than on an attribute.

The mistake is paying link prices for channel value. Submit to those catalogues yourself, for free, in one afternoon; then buy the followed placements separately from a source that guarantees the attribute.

Keeping the two accounts separate

Two lines in the budget: distribution and citations. Distribution is cheap, manual and audience-driven. Citations are priced per unit and should be auditable line by line, which is how ours are sold — 50+ indexed dofollow directories we operate, $30 for five placements through $150 for fifty, DR synced daily, 90-day refund.

FAQ

Is a nofollow SaaS listing worth submitting to?

Yes, for brand searches and occasional traffic. Do not count it as an SEO win.

Do paid tiers give dofollow links?

Often, sometimes only while you pay. Check the live page, not the pricing table.

Is a paid tier needed for a dofollow link?

Often yes, sometimes only while you keep paying. Check the live page rather than the pricing table, because the two disagree more often than you would expect.

What does BoostDomainRating cost? $30 for 5 dofollow placements up to $150 for 50. Every placement carries an Ahrefs DR figure synced daily, and the set is refundable within 90 days.

Placements you can count

BoostDomainRating runs 50+ indexed, dofollow directories and inserts your product directly — no external reviewer, no rejection category, one link standard. From $30 for 5 links to $150 for 50 dofollow backlinks, daily DR sync, 90-day refund.

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