Link building and building backlinks to your website has changed over the years. What worked a few years ago might not work as well today. This poll is to see what link building methods you use and what has and is working for you. Remember reciprocal linking? What do you participate in now? Cheers!
Other + 1 Build your own powerful network of related sites and dominate your niche. Buying backlinks is pretty much the same thing but in the long term I prefer networks.
But the quality links are usually the ones you trade or buy. you cant compare blog link, forum or article to a related valuable page. We do articles, directories and a little bit of social SEo but most of the time we are looking for quality websites and offer them link exchange deal.
Without choosing the option, i just want to say, to make good and genuine links, manual searching of relevant higher PR of home page and links page websites and contact them for link exchange is one of best way to build links. Other as mentioned in the option are also good, but seriously if you are looking PR and good traffic and PR Manual Search and build links is Best. I have made PR 0 to PR 2, 3 ,4 ,5 6 for many websites.
I have chosen article marketing. We can get quality niche related backlinks via article submission as well as good referal traffic via that too.