High DR Directories: Dofollow Listings at DR 50 and Up

High DR directories at a glance

Two bands of high domain rating directories, split at DR 70. The upper one is smaller and leans on badges less: 13 of its 19 directories ask for none, against 12 of the 25 rated DR 50 to 69. The median count of referring domains drops by more than half from one band to the next, and the no-equity column counts directories whose live listings, read for their guides, pass nothing to the product whatever our records say.

Directories with DR 70+

The top band runs from Startup Fame at DR 84 down to DR 70. Its three strongest followed rows, Startup Fame (DR 84), Twelve Tools (DR 83) and Findly.tools (DR 82), all list you free in return for a badge or a link back on your site. Findly also sells a Premium listing with no badge for $29 once, and its own FAQ says of any listing there: “A listing here is one referring domain.” Through Submitator you take the free route: the badge joins our one component on your site and we keep it live.

Three rows here carry the no-equity mark, AlternativeTo, Index by Dodo Payments and Future Tools: their guides counted live listings that pass nothing to the product, however strong the domain. They still put your product on a page people browse, so treat them as listings for visitors rather than for links. If you were looking for high DA dofollow directories, this table and the next are that list, scored in DR.

DR 50+ directories, from DR 50 to 69

The lower band is the larger one at 25 directories, and the badge is commoner here: 13 of them ask for one or offer one, 8 of them launch platforms. These are not the weak end of the set. The guides on this site counted a followed link on SaaSGrow (821 of 836 listing pages), DodoDirectory (253 of 255) and LemonLaunch (all 315); on each, a free listing earns that link with a badge that has to stay up. Those free links last as long as the badge does: drop it in a redesign and a directory that checks will drop you.

One row in this band, Super Launch, carries the no-equity mark. For the whole catalog at any DR, cut by category instead of by rating, the hub for SaaS and software and the one for AI tools print their own groups.

Referring domains: how many sites stand behind a DR

A referring domain is a separate website linking to the directory, and the count is where a rating comes from. In the DR 70+ table the median directory has 5,697 of them; in the band below, 1,408. Inside a band the spread is wide. PromoteProject, at DR 50, has 5,487 referring domains, more than seven times the 747 behind Viberank at DR 52. Seven of the 44 directories in these tables stand on fewer than 1,000.

Ahrefs explains how that happens in its own help center: “The source domain splits its rating equally amongst the domains it links to.” A few strong sites that link out sparingly can count for more than many that link everywhere. The same page asks whether a high DR makes a site a good one to get links from, and answers: “You should never judge the quality of a website on site-wide "authority" alone.” Both ends of these tables show why. The smallest count belongs to Index by Dodo Payments, DR 81 on 87 referring domains, because the index lives on a subdomain and the rating belongs to its parent: on 30 October 2026 our checker returned the same DR for dodopayments.com and for the index. The largest, 21,972, belongs to AlternativeTo, and its guide read rel nofollow on all 25 of its newest listings. Both carry the no-equity mark.

So read the columns together, starting with the link type: Viberank and PromoteProject pass on every page their guides read, which counts for more than either number. How referring domains climb with DR across the whole catalog is worked out in our referring-domains post.

The DR 50+ rows that ask for no badge

By our admin's badge rule, 25 of the 44 want nothing on your site. What the listing gives you still differs from row to row:

• A followed link counted with nothing asked of your site: CtrlAlt.CC (DR 52, 80 of 80 listings sampled), Viberank (DR 52, all 450 app pages read) and PromoteProject (DR 50, 238 of 238 profile links).
• Followed on a condition other than a badge: Uneed once a launch reaches its upvote score and StackShare once the listing is verified.
• A link back on the free route instead of a badge: DeepLaunch (DR 72) and Show My Sites (DR 71). The paid tier that drops it comes with every Submitator plan.
• No badge on our record, yet the free tier's followed link waits on one, per its guide: Launch List.
• Marked no equity: AlternativeTo, Index by Dodo Payments, Future Tools and Super Launch.
• No guide yet, dofollow with no badge on our records: SaaSHub, PeerList, PeerPush, What Launched Today, Startup Stash, MicroLaunch, Startup Inspire and Rank In Public.
• Five more, each with its link described in its guide: Alternative.me, SideProjectors, AI Tools Inc, TryLaunch AI and SaaSpo.

A badge-free row is a good fit if you would rather keep your footer clean. It is not the stronger choice by default: the badge directories in the lower band count their followed links in the hundreds. Through Submitator both kinds are open, because the badges are our work rather than yours. Every catalog row that skips the badge, at any DR, has a post of its own.

High DA directory submission sites: what the lists print

Moz describes its own number in one line: “Domain Authority® (DA) is a search engine ranking score developed by Moz.” Ahrefs' DR comes from a different link index, so the two can sit far apart on one site. What a DR number means and how it lines up against DA gets a companion post of its own. The trouble with a high DA directory submission sites list is less the vendor than the date.

Take “List of 400+ High DA Directory Submission Websites”, which Google's US results showed fifth for submit to directories on 17 October 2026. It was last modified on 1 July 2026. It holds 366 rows, 308 different sites once repeats are merged, each beside a DA and, in its first two tables, a PA and a column headed SS. No score carries a date, and the words dofollow and nofollow appear nowhere on the page. Its first table, the high DA headline of the list, names 19 sites rated DA 59 to 95. On 30 October 2026, 5 of them had no DNS record and 3 answered with a hosting company's Account Suspended page, so 8 of the 19 load no directory at all. Ahrefs rated 18 of the 19 below DR 40. Across the whole list, 14 of the 63 sites it rates DA 50 or more loaded no page.

High DA PA directory submission sites

PA is Moz's Page Authority, the same kind of score for a single URL, and on a list like that one the URL is the directory's home page. The page your listing would get does not exist yet, so a PA tells you about the front door, not about your room. The headline table of that list is a high DA web directories list in the old sense, mostly general directories that file any site by topic; which of those still work in 2026 is covered separately. The tables on this page carry the date of their export and the link type on our records. Every directory in them has also run a submission of ours end to end, since that is the point at which a directory joins our catalog.

Free high DA directory submission sites, scored in DR

By the guides on this site, the dofollow directories at DR 50+ that list you for free split three ways. Free with nothing asked of your site, and followed on every page counted: CtrlAlt.CC (DR 52), Viberank (DR 52) and PromoteProject (DR 50). Uneed (DR 76) is free through a waiting line that assigns your launch date, and a free launch earns its followed link at an upvote score of 20 on launch day. When that line fills Uneed closes it, but a launch through Submitator is always open, Fast-track included with every plan.

Free, with the followed link tied to a badge or a link back that stays up: Startup Fame (DR 84), Twelve Tools (DR 83), Findly.tools (DR 82), Turbo0 (DR 81), Neeed Directory (DR 74), AI Toolz Dir (DR 69), DailyPings (DR 63), SaaSGrow (DR 62), EasyDoFollow (DR 61), EasyLaunch (DR 61), Startup Benchmarks (DR 60), DodoDirectory (DR 59), SubmitMySaas (DR 59) and LemonLaunch (DR 53). On Launch Vault, LiftOff and Launchboard the badge buys the free listing and the followed link waits for a top finish in the day or the week; LiftOff's Featured plan, which drops both conditions, comes with every Submitator plan. DeepLaunch and Show My Sites ask a free listing for a link back. Any free high DA PA directory submission sites list worth using would show you the same split. The complete free and followed list, at every DR, is the next post to read.

How to use a high DR directories list

Whether you work from these tables or from any list of high DA dofollow backlink directory submission sites, the same five checks apply.

1. Start from the link type, then the no-equity mark. A rating is worth nothing to you on a listing that passes nothing, and the evidence behind each dofollow record is laid out row by row in a sibling post.
2. Read the referring domains beside the DR. A rating on a few hundred sites and one on several thousand are different kinds of strong.
3. Check the badge rule and decide who keeps the badge up for the life of the listing.
4. Once a listing is live, read the rel on it yourself, and give the page time to be crawled: the post on indexing a listing page covers the wait.
5. For a directory that is not in these tables, run its domain through our free DR checker.

Getting listed on high DR directories, done for you

None of the directories in these tables is held back for a bigger plan: the 30 directories of Starter can all come from here. You choose them in our dashboard with the DR printed beside every name. After that the forms are our job, each with a description we write to that directory's own length limits. So are the badges. Whichever badges your picks call for, Findly's and Startup Fame's among them, run inside a single Submitator component on your site that we keep live, so a new directory never asks you for another deploy.

Six of the 44 directories here sell a paid tier that every plan includes: Uneed's Fast-track, DeepLaunch's Featured Listing, Show My Sites' Premium, Startup Inspire's Standard, TryLaunch AI's Pro and LiftOff's Featured. Most directories are delivered in 24 to 48 hours, every directory within 21 days at most. A rejection is made good, by default, with one more directory you pick; All Directories has nothing to swap in, since it already holds the whole catalog. A refund can be requested within 30 days of purchase, on the conditions in our terms.

30 directories cost $29, 60 cost $49 and 100 cost $79, each paid once; All Directories, at $149, covers the whole catalog plus every directory added later. Each plan also includes free indexing by IndexMachine ($25 value): when a listing goes live, we send its page through IndexMachine ourselves and you set up nothing, while the decision to index it remains Google's. The catalog table on our startup directories page lists all 160+ with DR, link type and badge rule.