Of course there are other ways, I know some SEO "veterans" who have actual personal systems of link building that helps them dominate rankings, systems they've created through time and practice.

there is a clever way that has not been mentioned yet >>>

I hear posting on "yahoo questions" in questions that are relevent to your site and including a link works as well. Anyone have good backlinks from doing this? I'm new to building backlinks, this forum has a lot of great info in it.

I consider each blogger is obliged to place the blog in such social networks as: Technorati, Blogcatalog, MyBlogLog, Blogged.
After place there the blog, you will have a set backlinks connected with yours tags.

Who understands about what I, - that knows what it is effective, and at the same time an easy way of reception unilateral backlinks.

Link bait is under "natural links", and "article marketing" is under "Article Directories and Forums".

Originally Posted by johnlloyd

really nice info's, but getting listed in directories has quite a little value nowadays!

Directory submission is still useful though you have to wait long to get the results. It usually takes two to three months before the administrator approves your URL.

A very good round-up of all the different option for building backlinks. It’s also important not to rely on just one method. It’s more natural to have multiple sources.

Link bait is under "natural links", and "article marketing" is under "Article Directories and Forums".

Thanks.. Nice article

Fantastic article thanks for sharing. I agree DMOZ and Yahoo directory still carry weight infact Matt Cutts even says this in one of his videos.

Originally Posted by kline11

That's why only DMOZ and Yahoo are listed...they still carry weight.

It's certainly worth submitting to DMOZ and the Yahoo Business Directory. Yahoo charge commercial sites $299 for a listing but if your site is non commercial it's free.

Make sure that the Site Title Field has keywords you want to rank for in it. Posting your site in a multitude of directories has diminishing gains.

thanks ..these are the effective way to build links but how can you forget link exchange with relevant sites and social booking marking and dofollow blog commenting ..relevant links pass more link juice than any linking method ..any ways your post is quite useful for quality link building

Originally Posted by kline11

Google is whare backlinks really count. I just thought I'd share this info to save webmasters time and AVOID MISTAKES.

Getting Backlinks Naturally
Many backlinks are achieved the natural way. When your website provides users with useful content, webmasters and website owners will often link to these useful web pages (on your site) for their website visitors to use. Most often then not, these sites that link to yours naturally are relevant to your sites content. Also known as "targeted backlinks", these types of backlinks are the most beneficial when generating quality traffic from them. Getting natural backlinks, however, is a slow process. These are built mostly on trust and gaining trust takes time.

I think we come back to the essence, content is still the KING!

thanks for sharing. really useful information

Good post. Link building is soooo boring but so necessary. Ugh.

Originally Posted by thefandango

there is a clever way that has not been mentioned yet >>>

Care to mention it???

Nice post, these can be somehow helpful especially for people who are just starting to learn seo and have little knowledge about link building. Although there are a few that I have to disagree with.. such as getting backlinks from forums, you really get little value from it in my opinion. What real benefits you could get on forums is that you get to promote your site aside from learning a lot of things, unless of course you're not active..hehe Overall, still very helpful post.

you have said the good ways of seo, and you should keep on doing it everyday, then you can see a good effect

Originally Posted by johnch

Nice post, these can be somehow helpful especially for people who are just starting to learn seo and have little knowledge about link building. Although there are a few that I have to disagree with.. such as getting backlinks from forums, you really get little value from it in my opinion. What real benefits you could get on forums is that you get to promote your site aside from learning a lot of things, unless of course you're not active..hehe Overall, still very helpful post.

I agree that links from forums don't carry as much weight as they used to, but they still carry some...so as long as you participate in forums and don't spam, it will help some.

99.99% of directories are pretty much worthless these days IMO for Google rankings. Maybe they still carry some weight in Yahoo! and Bing, but for Google MANY free and paid directories have their outbound links devalued. Only relevant, niche directories are worth the time required to get the link.

Same goes for a lot of forums... Google likely knows which forums get spammed and which are tightly moderated to prevent spam. They discover them all the time manually reviewing various sites as a result of spam reports for various offenses. Many forums that allow dofollow links and are not tightly moderated likely have their outbound links devalued as well. And forum links are rarely relevant anyway.

So I wouldn't call directory OR forum links OR blog commenting links for that matter "quality" links. In fact, I would classify pretty much ALL unnatural links where you "plant" a link to your site on some other site a "low quality link" in Google's eyes.