1. You may be able to find some directories that accept free submissions. Of course, the number of good quality directories that accept free submissions is usually quite limited - as too many free submissions will tend to result in a good quality directory quickly turning to junk. 2. You may be able to pay other sites to link to you. Of course this can cost quite a bit of money, and you may also find that search engines take a dim view of such activity - perhaps penalizing or evening banning your site from their listings! 3. You can provide interesting content on your site (known as "link bait") and simply hope that people choose to link to it. Of course, you may get lucky, but this approach is hit and miss to put it mildly. 4. You can write articles and submit them to article directories. This is actually the best option, since writing a few hundred words about a topic which relates to your business and which you already know something about, is not too difficult. When you submit your article to a directory, you will be allowed to include a "resource box" or "bio" section, which may contain a backlink to your own web site. Additionally, since there are hundreds of article directories, even writing a single article can result in hundreds of backlinks.
Yeah as you said that quality and free back links are very few. Most of directories are paid if you want to place your link on their page having PR. Getting paid links can not be afford by every one, and still it is risky too.
I think links from directories are useless as we get backlink from PR0 page (they don't put our link on the homepage). and most of the directories are paid one and lots use nofollow tag.
I have submitted my sites to directories, but that hasn't gotten me any backlinks yet. I have used social bookmarking sites, but that hasn't helped much either. Most of my backlinks come from forum signatures and from articles at EZine. Occasionally my articles there get published other places too resulting in a few more links.
Building backlinks to your blog/site is crucial in achieving, maintaining, and improving your search engine rankings.
For me, the best way to get back links is by the use of article marketing. If you write good articles and submit it to ezinearticles and other popular article directory sites, your article might be published on other people's website. That will be an added back link to your site.
Why doesn't digital point allowed stickied threads? I feel like rehashing the same old stuff is getting useless.