You need to submit to directories, write articles, and ask for links from other webmasters. Link building the right way takes hard work and time. It is a fairly painstaking process. This is why some just have others do it for them, but you need money if you want to do that.
before building links No tools just u need to have a knowledge in brief regarding Pagerank of gogole.....what's importance of homepage link...how to know the backlinks for a site...how many pages of a website your link would be placed..u need to have ideas regarding that parameter and how google's gonna do traet your links.....
i think you dont need any tools for link building. i dont suggest you to hire anybody for link building . nobody can love your site as you. people that you hire will only want your money
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Our whole site is about link development and the tools to use. Also we record the progress of using these techniques in a results section. See the sig line!