Instead of this blog posting, directory submission, social book markng and forum signatures, any new methods link building methods to get good traffic and ranking in search engines.
Comment posting on related blogs can be of benefit to build traffic. I have received quite a bit of targeted quality traffic by commenting on related niche blogs. Just make sure to stay on topic and make it a genuine comment not crap like "thanks' or "good info. As far as social bookmarking sites, they have become nothing but bandwidth grabbers. There is no targeted traffic and almost zero conversions. He was asking about link building!
Write good content then ask other webmasters for a link. If you have something they want they'll link back to you.
How does this work? Are you meaning simply e-mail another webmaster and ask them to link to your site? I run a site where we review horror movies, books, games, etc. I hesitate to approach other webmasters in the same genre because 1) I don't want to look like a mooch/nag and 2) they're probably going to want reciprocal links which I'm told are pretty much worthless... Am I off base? Link building confuses me.
I can tell you that as a webmaster of many sites that: 1) I get dozens of requests to add a link on one of my sites 2) I can't tell the automated emails from the manual, sincere ones 3) I delete them all as a result
Thanks, confusion.. that clears up some of my... confusion. lol I thought that particular method seemed scammy. I've no intention of aggravating people if I can avoid it!