I need some help prioritizing link building methods. I would like to see other webmasters priorities on the link building stratifies when considering time and or money spent developing these methods/ I would like to see your order of important for the following. Submitting to directories social book marking posting articles to your site submitting articles to article directories posting on blogs posting on forums.
Content and internal links on your own site first A good amount of articles with an anchor text backling my own blog entries forum comments mini blogs (Hub, Squidoo) social bookmark sites blog comment
1. On page SEO 2. Keyword research 3. Competitors research 4. Posting articles to your site 5 Submitting articles to article directories 6. Posting on high PR related blogs 7. social book marking 8. my own blog entries 9. Forum posting 10. Directories Except for 1, 2 and 3 the rest are relative in their importance although IMP Directories are always at the bottom of the list.
links from blogs are more important than submissions - spiders will get it if its been linked anyway...
I added a few more. 1. posting on blogs 2. posting articles to your site 3. [posting unique articles on satellite sites (wordpress, blogspot, weebly, squdoo] 4. social book marking (the articles you posted in #2 and #3) 5. submitting articles to article directories 6. posting on forums. 7. [Buying Blogposts on quality blogs] 8. [Buying links on high quality, very relavent sites with strong PR] 9. Submitting to directories