I've only just begun my first SEO adventure... I need to know of any ways there are to get backlinks. Also, if anybody can, please share other ways to get better SERPs! (White hat only!)
Blog commenting Directory submission article submission social bookmarking These are few of the ways..More over if you have money to spend then hire people from DP!!
Madman welcom to the SEO adventure... First, think of 4 keyword phrases (2-3 words) you want your site to rank for. Now assign these 4 keyword phrases to a page on your site. Notice the green links below. These are Signature Links (Sigs). Now go to the DP menu above and click on USER CP and insert the above 4 keyword phrases/links in there. By doing this, you will have ~200 quality links to your site. Forum Sig links are the best beginner source of links there are. Just make sure that the links are not "nofollow" links. If your have a problem with this, PM me. Happy linking...
You can try posting on social book marks such as digg, those will give you good back links also post on forums with your link in your sig.
Thank you all... Now besides backlinks, are there any other methods that help? I've already optimized my site content with great long tail keywords and a description filled with them... also made the titles keyword rich. Edit: updated my signature =P
Siglinks may be nice, but remember that sig-links are out-of-topic. They only work for increasing your PR.
Commenting in popular blogs in your niche , will get you backlinks beside being noticed in your niche if you post serious comments , DON'T SPAM .
You can also refer to the SEO cheat sheet which was posted recently to use as a guide to further optimize your site.
Directory submissions are a great way to gain backlinks...Also can from Blogs or websites comments & signature links..
I dunno, my favorite way to generate a ton of back links quickly is buying text links on large forums. Some people say that buying text links will hurt your Search Engine rankings, but mine seem to be fine