It's not really manipulating. It's just a way of doing it the way google wants you to. In fact google is manipulating you.
i know, but i won't buy their stuff then...they continue doing so or behave like a normal company, and respect their clients.
target your niche and do bookmarking, directory submission, forum posting, signature and blog commenting is useful for building links for no cost. on the other hand you can also do 1 way link building.
Posting to forums such as this one and leave your signature behind, blog comments, classifieds,articles are excellent way to get backlinks.
To get backlinks do following things * web directory submission * article submission * blog directory submission * Feed submission * forum posting (through signature) * press release submission * Social bookmarking in digg and deals. * online group posting * promotional ads * link exchange
Can anyone please tell me one thing that if I make 100 forum posts in a do follow forum, then will it mean that I get 100 back links for the site, I am promoting through my signature link. It will be a great help if someone can answer this for me.
You can get backlink in Off Page work create signature in forum and post, Press release , Article submission , Directory Submission, Blog commenting & Blog posting. This Way to get easy backlinks on your site.
Best way is writing some guide about your site, ask other site owners to link to your site, use directory sibmitions, forum signatures, leave the link in post when someone is asking for information that can be seen on your site...
I would say that link exchanges are not the best idea. I would post comments on blogs, get a signature in a forum and start posting there as well. I also would write articles and submit to directories. Those methods will get you backlinks quite quickly and most likely a Page Rank.
A back link is an inward link to your site that may or may not be reciprocated with an outward link back. If page A links to page B then a back link would be a link which goes from page B back to page A.Backlinks are incoming links to a website. For example, a site with a lot of backlinks implies that many other sites link to that site. Search engines often use the number of backlinks that a website has as one of the most important factors for determining that website's search engine ranking. Websites often employ various techniques (called search engine optimization) to increase the number of backlinks pointing to their website. Some methods are free for use by everyone whereas some methods like link baiting requires quite a bit of planning and marketing to work. well If you want to increase your backlinks..you have so many ways like blog posting/commenting,directory submissions,article submissions,SMO ETC.I hope you got Your Answer.Thank you. Have a nice day.