The 50 Best Bootstrapped Backlink Builders in 2024
We analyzed the organic growth of 1,600 SaaS companies to discover the SEO strategies that work best in 2024. In this article, we’re looking at bootstrapped SaaS companies that gained the greatest amount of referring domains in the past year. Bootstrapped businesses generally don’t have huge budgets to spend on marketing, so any strategy these small-but-mighty companies use to improve their organic growth is something that you can take inspiration from, too. We used the Ahrefs API to pull a list of live referring domains for each company in September 2023 and September 2024. Companies were ranked by referring domain growth as a percentage of their initial referring domains. We’ve set a minimum starting threshold of 1,000 referring domains. We’ve reported on referring domains instead of backlinks, because 1,000 referring domains are much, much harder to get than 1,000 backlinks. 50 best bootstrapped backlink builders This is a list of bootstrapped SaaS companies ordered by referring domain growth from September 2023 to September 2024. Did you make the cut? Rank Company Referring Domains 2023 Referring Domains 2024 Referring Domain Growth Change Estimated Revenue 1 Elfsight 7,657 33,610 25,953 339% $8.0M 2 Short.io 5,709 18,573 12,864 225% $0.5M 3 Gymdesk 1,325 3,052 1,727 130% $5.5M 4 Helpjuice 4,015 8,672 4,657 116% $6.0M 5 AlsoAsked 1,602 3,343 1,741 109% $0.5M 6 Stripo 2,304 4,420 2,116 92% $5.5M 7 Clearscope 1,883 3,580 1,697 90% $5.5M 8 Surfer 5,815 10,899 5,084 87% $37.5M 9 Wordtune 2,877 5,347 2,470 86% $1.0M 10 Crowdin 4,818 8,919 4,101 85% $17.5M 11 Socialinsider 3,264 6,007 2,743 84% $0.8M 12 SpyFu 8,101 14,821 6,720 83% $2.0M 13 Pentest-Tools.com 1,543 2,779 1,236 80% $5.5M 14 Canny 4,411 7,675 3,264 74% $5.5M 15 Surfshark 13,898 24,056 10,158 73% $20.0M 16 Sitebulb 1,232 2,093 861 70% $0.5M 17 Seobility 3,496 5,900 2,404 69% $5.0M 18 SpyCloud…
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