How I've Grown FastWaitlist's DA to 26 in Less Than 4 Months

It's actually easier than you think

What's FastWaitlist?

It's this simple tool for creating waitlist pages.

A few days back I posted about the success I'm having with running it's blog and I got asked this:

To give you a bit more context I didn't do any major link building.

Submitting to directories

This is the first step I took.

Here's a full list of the directories I submit my products to: 50 directories for startups

The best part is you don't need to submit to all of them.

I submitted just to the first 20 and with-in a month or so I received a lot of backlinks from directories I didn't know about.

Once you get your product out there it spreads like wildfire.

Making noise on social media

Second thing I did is I posted a lot about my product on Twitter and Reddit.

Make sure your posts are actually valuable.

I always shared an insight from my journey and plugged in my product in some way.

This will:

• Get you more traffic from social media

• Get you more links from these high DA websites

The reason you need to share something valuable isn't just for the clicks, search engines care as well.

Promotional spam posting = bad

Incentivize people to link

Multiple ways to do this.

FastWaitlist incentivized people with a free tier + waitlist page hosted on subpath

Your page could be: fastwaitlist.com/my-startup

As you can probably guess.

People wanted to share their waitlist page to get sign ups.

And that got me backlinks as well.

I know that this model doesn't fit every startup.

But there's another option:

• Affiliate program - people are paid to get you customers

And this one is probably even more powerful.

One SaaS I know has 1M backlinks because of this strategy.

Case study on them coming soon.