I am sure that this topic has been talked about one million times. But there are new threads poping up everyday asking: should I go digg or directory submition? So how about we do a little discussion and sort it out which action worth more...I will start my list first based on my experiences (and yes, I am not a webmaster pro so I am sure that I might miss alot) and you are welcome to add anything! 1. Easy, fast and every effective way - request link exchange on blog log with webmaster that has same sites. I through the good old email request out of the window since 90% of the time I don't even get any reply of my email. You spend same amount of time to read bloglog member's blog and just ask friendly on their personal page or in their community... 50% of the chance you WILL get a link. And they are ALL relative link. Trust me, you can get a PR4 that way in less than a day worth of work. Also, I found some of them become a regular visitor to my site afterwards. Brings more traffic than all the directory combined. If you work hard in the right way... bring 100/D unique from them is piece of cake and 100 per day for a brand new blog/site is a good amount if you know what I am saying. So I strongly suggest you do that once you finish construct your site. 2. I haven't had any good luck with article submit yet. They did bring me some quick and VERY low quality traffic. But I didn't figure out how to convert those traffic for long term visitor nor into any sells. I guess if you want to explore yourself and take your chance, you might give a try. I did get few natural links though which is always a good thing. Did those links push my PR or google ranking? Don't really think so. I've read a lot of success stories though. It depends on your niche I guess. If your site is tech somewhat related you have a better chance. Not for me though. 3. Good old method: directory submition. Next time, I won't spend my time to submit 500 directories. It's just not worth it. My index has lower PR than than my blog after all that work! Anything less than PR5 is not worth it at all. Most of them don't have any traffic other than link submitions. How do I know? Because I put up a directory too myself and I figured it out. On the other hand, set up a directory on your site is totally worth the effort. It's better than a link farm and it gives you a place to stock other site's link when you go out and ask for link exchange. You can also require link back on your submition page and there you get yourself some free links as well. It's always easy when someone found you first, right? 4. Social networking is great way to get some cheap links. Traffic wise, they might not do very good. It's not very target, unless your niche is entertaining and target to teens. It's also very hard to stand out, you have to do alot of marketing in order for that happen. I am too lazy for that. I much rather spend my time on writing content... Another down fall about that is you have to keep in touch with all of your friends other wise you will lose them really quick. But due to the huge amount if traffic they have itself, your status will look good there for a moment. 5. Forum forum forum. It's very targeted traffic and you have to join those big guys. Ones that has more than 10K members. Like DP? Once you make a valuable post, it's going to be viewed hundreds of times or more and people will click on your link or your SIG. You don't have to SPAM the board. I am averaging less 1 post a per on one forum and I am making more than $1 with AdSense and made few sales from it as well. I am sure that if I put more time and effort into it, it could be a great payback. Unfortunately, I just have too much to do. All I have to say is forums are good traffics and OK links that you DO want to grab. Those are my major link building resource, now it's time for you to share yours.
I think freebaits are the best ways to build links. If you own a blog, memes are totally awesome ways to get links. An example is the Z List. Remember to credit every site you got the information or content from and link building should be natural.
Link building is an important factor on SEO...improving your link popularity and using right keywords as your anchor text will help you ranking with those keywords... directory submission, blog and forums - use unique title with your targeted keywords on it...the more backlinks with your targeted keywords will be great.... article and press releases - submitting your article and press release on their respective directories will help you on indexing your inner pages...you can put your subpages on your resource box...quality article will bring you a lot of traffic and if you have great contents they might link back to you (link baiting) Link exchange - quality, relevant and trusted site Social bookmarking sites - uses nofollow tags but great with traffic...
I am sorry, is that your site that you are linking to? I am not talking about certain site here... I am talking about general resources.
For more on link development check out a recent article i wrote on link development and traffic generation
Hmmm.. just contributing things that you missed out. They are specific resources that are relevant to link building and PR. Not trying to step on any toes here
I find that sometimes searching on google with "keyword" links "keyword" add a link etc, you can also find some good links from high PR site. Or even better, just search for "keyword", Go to page 5 or so* and email the webmasters, but make the email personal. State something you liked about their website, maybe fix a spelling error, show you read it and arent a bot. That really helps your acceptance rate. *This is to avoid emailing the people you will be in direct competition with later on. You want them to email you