Hey, what tips would you all suggest to a new webmaster trying to build up backlinks to his site? Specifically, the things I am doing are: Links in my signature Affiliating with similiar sites Threads on forums I frequent Commenting on others blogs Note that by 'Affiliating with similiar sites' I don't mean auto-affiliating programs, when I see a site with an affiliates section with similiar content to mine I manually email the webmaster and exchange links. What else should I do? I've heard writing articles and submitting them to free article sites with a tagline containing a link to my site is helpful, but I'm afraid my content will get stolen. Any and all advice is welcome!
Try to get one-way topic related backlinks. They worth the most. Those links from signatures are devalued, they have some weight but it is so small.