Blogs

One of the best ways of creating links in a way so that your site is through the publication of comments on blogs. Simply add the URL of your site by posting comments on blogs and soon you will build a number of many good one-way links to your site.

Forums

Posting in forums is also a great way to build backlinks. However, do not post your URL directly into the discussion forums or the spam busters would take you banned and removed from the forum. The best way is through your signature. Include the URL of your site in your signature and then when posting a comment in the forum you are leaving a link to your site along with your post.

Social Networks

From the evolution of Web 2.0, social networking sites like MySpace, Friendster, Tag World, etc. … are the hot spots of the Internet today. Millions of people visit these sites daily to make friends or to promote their products or services. You may also register on those sites and post links to your site along with the comments you make in your friend’s profile. This way you can create a large number of backlinks for your site.

Social Bookmarks

Social bookmarking is another area where you can create a technique to link to your site. Just bookmark sites like Delicious and if your site is interesting enough, others will add your site to their list of favorite sites, and soon you will meet a large number of one-way links to your site.

Articles

You can write articles on various topics and publish them on article sites, and include the URL of your site in the resource box or the biographical section of the author. There are many directories publishing articles from various authors, along with information that provides biographical facts about the author. Such info may contain a link to your site. If your article is informative and intriguing, soon it will be published on many other sites and newsletters. This way you will have a large number of backlinks pointing to your site.

Link Exchange

Although it is a very old method for building traffic and backlinks, link exchange still works. Link exchange with quality and relevant sites and you will get a higher ranking and more traffic.

 Backlinks Building is a crucial factor for a website to increase its popularity

Google is the first search engine to link to the websites with the estimation of a vote rate. The links must also be relevant to the content of the website. The popularity of a site by another name as “Page Rank,” decides the quantity and quality of backlinks. The keywords used in the hyperlinks (anchor text) are crucial to determine the position of a website in the SERP in addition to page optimization.

The important question now before us is how to build backlinks. Do not think of participating in “link farms” to rebuild links! This is a black hat technique, created solely for the purpose of building backlinks for spam blogs and websites.

So what is next? It’s the reciprocal link. The backlinks received from other sites should be relevant to your content. Besides this, there is no guarantee that they will keep your links.

Google and other search engines like the so-called ‘natural links’ sites. The content has to be relevant to the “keyword search.”

The big question before us now is how to gain natural links? Websites that link to us if we have quality content appear on our website. This is called link exchange technique. Distributing your content in the form of an article, the best places to submit your articles are Share This, GoArticles, ISNAR, Ezine Articles and others.

Apart from the directory “backlinks building” another technique to build quality backlinks, is DMOZ. You can for example submit your website for “social bookmarks like Digg, Furl, del.icio.us, searchles, etc. Therefore, there are many ways to get people to notice your site without paying anything.

Craigslist for instance, is a free classifieds service, where you can submit your site and reap all the benefits in literary no time. Participating in “Google Groups” and “Yahoo Answers,” trying to help people rather than indulging yourself in a shameless self-promotion, will help you a lot!

You can also create pages in “Wikipedia”. Using this technique with caution, not to introduce methods of promotion, providing good, valuable information, will prevent your page a deletion from Wikipedia. Do not let people know that you are promoting your site through “Wikipedia”! Also, make use of Squidoo.com and MySpace.com; create a resource of good, unique content and link to your site – you will see the results!