hello, good article !! i'm amazed if google is not considering anything now then what is the best way to do SEO.. Here is the list what i do, Link Exhange Paid directories Free directories Articles Submissions Book Marks Forums Blog Posting Press Releases and few social marketing... Still i'm not getting successful, So what thing should I do shortly that save time and money!!!
Some people thing link building is effective for any website, i am also agree with them because long distance benefits comes only with effective link building. You can get instant benefits with paid links, bookmarking and social media optimization. your links distributed quickly with social media optimization and it goes back in few days, your value also become less. If you would like to get good results with effective link building then you should keep patience.
The problem I see with bookmarks is that you can only bookmark a page once, so unless you are constantly getting good quality contents into your site, there isn't much to bookmark. Articles submissions works best for me so far. I use bookmarking to get new contents, but you can't target keyword with anchor text using bookmarking. As for link exchanges, I wouldn't do any of that, so many other ways to obtain links there really isn't a point for link exchanges as it is very time consuming and not really worth the risk of getting banned for it.
Beware of link exchange... You must exchange links to those sites that are only related to your niche. High PR is an advantage, so In order to succeed in this strategy, focus to high PR and quality blogs/site.
YEa, relevancy and good neighbourhood is very important t link any site. I dont think Link exchange is less effective... well if any site is linked with some good site, surely it adds to the advantage.
yea true.... Link exchange give a good credit to the site but at the same time it can be dangourous if connected to bad sites. Therefore one should take atmost care for it.