Best way to promote site and build backlinks

Hi Guys, I have an art-related site that sells high resolution fine art images located at:

http://www.awesome-art.biz

I currently have a PR = 2, with about 80 backlinks. I started building my pr last year by:

(1) Publishing a blog that point to my site
(2) Publishing white papers and articles on art at a public relations site and pointing back to my site
(3) Finding other art-related sites with page rank above one and emailing them and asking to do a link exchange.

I would like to go to PR = 3, what do you guys recommend for moving up the PR ladder?

Also, since only Google uses PR, does good PR help with Yahoo or Bing serp ?

Thanks,

ALLen

 

getting backlinks wont help

 

Try articles (ezines and goarticles etc) or squidoo or press releases and social bookmarking

 

I think Publishing white papers is one of the most effective way to do promotion

 

It sounds like your doing fine,just keep getting backlinks from high page rank sites thats related to yours.

 

Hi Crash - Thanks

 

best and easy way to promote blogs are by Google Friend Connect.

 

Use social bookmarking sites like digg, reddit etc..signature in forums.

 

All great advice here- best wishes!

 

HI SEOSTUFF - What's the best way to use Social Networking ? Do you just post links to your site and describe it ?

How do you get others to visit your site or post links to it ?

Do you think posting links to your site in forums like this one help ?

Thanks

 

U can use your website link in your signature in forums, blogs, wordpress, etc. It is also considered as a backlink to increase your PR. All the best.

 

There's a lot of link building techniques listed here. Just dig the old threads and you can find it.

 

Thanks everybody for the great advice

 

I think link building is one of the great way for SEO.