Many of the responses are spot on and list most if not all of the accepted methods of gaining backlinks although it is much, much easier said than done. Anyone who is and has added backlinks knows that a little patience is way too little. You need to be very patient, extremely patient and it sounds like you may not really buy into that. In other words the patience it takes is going to test you. I don't mean to sound preachy but consider this. You did a search of your competitors or those who are ranking for the keywords you want and you saw hundreds, thousands and perhaps 100's of thousands. Therein lies the reality for you and all of us. Be aware that it may have taken them many months or likely years to get those backlinks. It may take you that long as well. Also consider this- when I first, many years ago saw how many backlinks of my competitors the one with the largest numbmer of back links had a total of 49,000 give or take. Today that same competitor is no longer ranking high for important keywords but now has over 184,000 backlinks. I know that the quantity is not as important as the quality of backlinks which to a degree is not true but the point is you competitors may be on this forum, they keep check of the up and comers and will turn on the juice as well as continually add back links so you are in essence chasing a moving target. Be patient, persistant and consistent. Good things will happen but not necessarily as fast as you might like.
@ richromo Your right about many things. My patience is thin. My goal is to be able to generate income so that i may quit my job before things go to crap there and time is almost up. I guess i have no choice but to wait and work hard at building backlinks all over the net. Thanks for you council
You can get back links with these techniques: social bookmarking article submissions classified ads press release online groups blog commenting
Follow the link building techniques such as directories submission,forums,blog commenting and article marketing.with these techniques you can build more backlinks.
I think you might use some backlink checking tools to help you on this issue like backlinkhunter or backlinkwatch. Then just go ahead and build your backlinks as your competitors did.
A few of the most popular ways are to submit articles, comment on blogs, soical network and bookmarking, link exchanges, and forum posting with signature attached.