I hear many different opinions from different SEO professionals. I really want to hear what you have to say. What are the best links from search engine's point of view? Blogs, social bookmarks, forums, news pr, just high PR, directories or any others.......
Relevant links are the best but you need to do links naturally, don't build too fast it may harm you as well.
I agree with alex. Devote a few hours each week on link building. Diversify with link exchanges, directories, do-follow blogs and forums, article sites such as e-zine artilces, social bookmarking and press releases. Building a business takes time. Good Luck!
The best links for me, time and time again were those from other blogs, from good articles related to my site. ezine-type sites are finally out of Google's index, social bookmarking never worked (but they work great if you pay people to Digg your article - you can get thousands of visits in a day) in my experience...
Always go for the same niche, it will be better if the website have high PR and good density of the keyword you are aiming
Relevant backlinks from the same niche would be more effective your site. Try to spread out through all the off page SEO techniques in different relevant high page ranked sites.
Link building has to be somewhat natural in that not every post will be exactly relevant to your site, but most of them should. Blog posts, directories, some article submissions are still good, high PR (relevant) forums, and the almighty .EDU and .GOV backlinks. I have several pointing at a couple of my sites and they are good for a pretty strong bump in the SERPS.
Basic Link Building methods i.e (article submission, web 2.0 posting, slidesharing, videos syndication, manual blog comments) plus diversify links in niche related webistes..
As you can see, there are quite a few ways to go about link building. When it comes to web 2.0, I like to use Posterous to make the job a bit quicker and easier. Then, blog posts, and I have seen a lot of people tout the efficacy of video. Especially in a good microniche/subniche. Google owning youtube makes for easy rankings. They like to rank their own sites and pages high if they can.
As long as these link are dofollow, relevant and if you can than find high PR or authority site backlinks. For me combination of backlinks from different site and different source is much better.
Every backlink is best for SEO as long it is organic and relevant to your website... Make sure, the websites with which you are linking are not spammy or blacklisted websites.
forums and blogs can't take position of quality theme related website links. It requires some time but it gives you last long result.
Don't waste your $$$ on the wrong kind of backlinks - They won't work. Since Google changed the playing field simple text links are almost counter productive, and Pyramid linkbuilding is no longer worth the effort, whereas Contextural Links will get you almost immediate SERPS improvement. Most of the backlinks you will be offered today will be either, simple text on blog profiles or blog comments. Tens of thousands of both can be done in 24hrs using Scrapebox, and because of that Google is now giving simple text links less weight in SERPS. If you watch the latest video by Matt Cutts, Google's own guru, you will learn that contextural backlinks now have the most value. Contextural backlinks are links placed inside an article or blog post that are in the context of their surrounding text, so they look natural. For example an article on firefighting might have links to a firestation URL. These are quite time consuming to create and invariably need an image to get maximum Google juice. For anyone planning to create backlinks I recommend you to take 3 minutes to watch the Matt Cutts video on autoseosystem-dot-com If you recognise the change he speaks about. then afterwards use their FREE software to create some contextural articles embedded with your own URL.
i agree with the vast majority of speakers - relevant and organic backlinks are the most important links for SEO. As for me, i also like to use blogs and forums.