Backlink Finder

A backlink finder searches for the phrases that sites publish when they want contributors, and returns the ones in your niche. Sites accepting guest posts almost always say so on a dedicated page, and they say it in a small number of predictable ways: "write for us", "become a contributor", "guest post guidelines", "submit a guest post". Those phrases are called footprints, and searching for one alongside your topic surfaces the pages that carry it. This tool runs six of them at once and merges the results.

The reason to use footprints rather than a backlink index is that they find intent rather than history. A backlink database tells you who has linked to a competitor, which is useful but retrospective, and most of those links are not repeatable. A site with a live "write for us" page is telling you today that it wants a submission. That is a much shorter path from a list to a published link, and it costs nothing to check.

Results are deduplicated by domain rather than by URL. Six footprints against one site return six different pages of that site, and those are one opportunity rather than six, so the first match wins and the rest are dropped. Platforms that match the phrases without ever being a target are excluded outright: a Reddit thread discussing guest posting is not a site you can guest post on, and neither is a Fiverr listing selling the service. The list you get back is one row per site, with the page that matched so you can read the guidelines before you pitch.

What it will not do is judge quality. A footprint search finds pages that mention the phrase, and some of those are link farms that will publish anything for a fee, which is precisely the kind of link that carries risk rather than value. Read the page before you pitch, and treat an unfamiliar domain with a thin archive and a paid-post disclosure as a signal to move on. The tool also sees only what Google indexes for those exact phrases, so a site accepting contributions through a form with no matching text will not appear, and results shift as the index does. Searching is rate limited, because each run costs real search credits.