Did some research for one way permanent links services and found the following. The products that are being offered contain: 1) directory links 2) commenting 3) article submission 4) forum signatures and profiles (plus other sites profiles) 5) social bookmark sites 6) blog reviews 7) hosted pages with your article and links on another site (marketing pages) As I understand the most natural are blog reviews and hosted (marketing) pages with your text and links hosted on other site's separate page. These 2 things are very similar (actually article submission looks almost the same: text + embded links) You do not pay monthly. You get permanent links in text. Everything looks natural and you do not have to pay for this monthly. You can use your budget to buy more permanent links instead of paying for rented links. These links stay forever so there is no "blinking" effect when your SEO budget gets cut one day. Advantages of the blog reviews: 1) your post appears on the main page (for not a long period of time) 2) it really looks like review: blogger found the service and posted his opinion. 3) link to the post remains two pages away from main page (Home page - Archive October - Your post) Advantage of the hosted (marketing) page: 1) the page belongs to a real site (lots of blogs are created just for making money from reviews so they are not quite natural in this sence) 2) domain of the site may be much older and besides it does not belong to any free blog system like blogspot or wordpress. So it's more trusted by search engines. 3) if you sell services the visitors of this page would believe this review more than blog post (just a quess) 4) no bad "neighborhood" reviews by my page. Can you help me to decide what is better? I do not take into cosideration the industry of the sites (they are all not link farms, not adult or spammy sites - just regular, natural sites) So what would you choose if you had an idea to contact some sites (instead of bloggers) and ask them to host my page there?
If you want to contact webmasters and ask them to link to your website, its very difficult and you should very expert on writing your request and in most cases webmasters ignore these kinds of emails except you have a good website and they want to exchange links with your website and exchanging links is good IF you do it a little. I suggest you to follow the tips you have learned and listed them above. These tips will work for every website and can drive traffic for your website and promote it.