Exactly...but if you have a budget than buy similar niche links (you can buy many of them from here on DP)... all the best..!
These are the things I think will give the most link-juice. Comment on related blogs and use your keyword phrase as name, then it will be used as the anchor text (cause many times you can't use anchor text in the comment, and if you do there's a bigger chance it will be disapproved) make about 5-10 blogs or more (Squidoo/Hubpages/Blog.com/Xanga.com/Typepad.com/Blogger.com/Wordpress.com/Weebly/ etc.) then link these together in random order(NOT link them all with each other) and don't forget to link all those blogs back to your site, again remember to use anchor text with your keyword phrases. To get most link-juice from those blogs/web 2.0 sites you should update them about once a week, it don't need to be whole articles just small post so the search engines can see it's a fresh content=better ranking=better backlinks Sites like zimbio.com and linkedin.com are also great places to make backlinks on. *.ning have many user made communities that may be worth to look at, just search "site:ning.com marketing" (marketing=your keyword) in google. Try to find community sites with high PR (Page Rank) like www.good.is - www.letsgo.com - http://buzz.yahoo.com - mtv.com etc. there you can put your link in the profile and make posts (like small blogs), don't put your link in the first post, at least not before you have made a second, just to make sure you're not seen as a spammer. And last but not least you have article marketing. Remember to link to deeper pages of your site as mydomain.com/category/post most of the time as that will count better in googles eyes. If you do all these things I can almost guarantee it will help your rankings=traffic=conversions Hope it helps Kim C PS: I hadn't seen he was banned until I had posted, but I leave it up so it could help others.
what is the difference between article directories and press realease? isnt it the same idea? articles with links to your site?
Yups, submit your links to social bookmarking, blog commenting, directories, forum signatures, and.. Try linkwheel..
Some link building techniques: blog commenting forum posting classified ads press release article submission