I would suggest you to read this article that I have wrote about a method to linkbuilding through social media and bookmarking: https://forums.digitalpoint.com/threads/how-to-build-backlinks-by-social-media-bookmarking.2718859/
To get good backlink submit unique articles into high pr article directories and hyperlink innerpage links to your business keywords throughout your written article along with suitable author description.
You can use Forums and blogs to make good backlinks for your site. If you have unique content then article submission is also good.
You can create good link with many source like forum posting, article submission, social bookmarking, blog writing.
I believe as long as you are getting quality backlinks from quality PR sites then any backlinking strategy will do.
Good and informative post... I am just not sure why did you place ARticle Submission on FIRST place? According to me, it's not as strong as it was... But thanks for sharing!
Most of the guys/gals sitting in India and claiming to be the SEO masters are really not aware of what things are to be done and what not to be done. They think 1 article in ezine every week guarantees their success, nope this is not true if you are sitting in a competitive niche.
You can create good backlinks by Article Syndication, Guest Posting, Yahoo Ques & Ans, Social bookmarking.
Content based backlinks will really work great for you. It is important to select good websites related to your niche for posting the articles. Also, make sure that the article content is unique and useful to the readers.
FOR GOOD SEO BACKLINKS ARE VERY IMPORTANT I am talking about quality of backlinks, which is not create easily. It take more time. But you have to concentrate on content not back links . Because backlinks are created in free manner, make unique content.
I hope all my competitors are following the advice being given in this thread! Its going to make my job a lot easier.
The idea behind including backlinks as part of the page rank algorithm is that if a page is good, people will start linking to it. And the more backlinks a page has, the better. But in practice it is not exactly like this. Or at least you cannot always rely on the fact that your contents is good and people will link to you. So, you will have to resort to other ways of acquiring quality backlinks as described next.
You dont get backlinks from Facebook or Twitter.....It seems you are in the initial days of building backlinks...Try Pinterest, reddit, Tumblr,etc