Building Quality Backlinks

[francis_elkin]

I know the threads "How do you build backlinks" have been done over and over on numerous forums but most of them are old so I thought I'd ask around here. Understandably there are hundreds of ways, each with people preaching their method is the best.

Personally for me I've tried the following methods (in no particular order) to build backlinks...

Links from other sites in the same niche - most effective in my opinion.
Article distribution to hundreds of sites - effective but what about the duplicate content, will the links get ignored?
Directory submissions - i've always done this but never seen any real benefit.
Social bookmarking - recently tried this and one of two of the bookmarks came up in the SERPS so I guess it helps. If you get something on the front page it definately generates a lot of visitors and backlinks.
Blog commenting - fairly new, never really tried as it is not widely accepted.
Blog reviews - I once spent $100 on reviews from min pr3 siteswith no real benefit.
Text Link Ads - tried this too, spending $100 with no real benefit.
Forum signatures - have over 2,000 posts on some forums, dunno if this helps


That's all I can think of now, what about you?

[Wahm]

those are the ways to build backlinks, which just helps your PR.. but "content is king".. search engines want content, they more you have the better..

[dan_swiger]

Quite an effective method (depending on the site I suppose) is to use Yahoo siteexplorer to see what sites are linking to your competitors websites. If they are directories / sites of a similar nature that you could get a link from, this works quite well in some cases.

Directory submission is probably the easiest but as you say sometimes doesn't give great results.

Personally I think blog commenting is best - especially if you can find blogs on authority sites!

[mrsmichelespence]

For me blog commenting and forum posting is a nice way to build quality backlinks. Blog commetning is good way to interact with other bloggers. Forum posting can help build backlinks too, plus you can learn so many things in forums.

[riteforu]

Here's my method I use social bookmarks,blog commenting,articles,directories,classifieds and I'm always adding new content to my site. The trick is to find dofollows when submitting or commenting. It's getting difficult finding do follows a lot of places are doing away with the dofollow due to spam. Especially the forums.

[yasas177]

Please check my comments below.



Links from other sites in the same niche - most effective in my opinion.
I agree.

Article distribution to hundreds of sites - effective but what about the
duplicate content, will the links get ignored?
Article distribution is a great method to build links.

Directory submissions - i've always done this but never seen any real benefit.
Directory submission is very less in benefits.

Social bookmarking - recently tried this and one of two of the bookmarks came up in the SERPS so I guess it helps. If you get something on the front page it definately generates a lot of visitors and backlinks.
SERP benefits may not permanent.


Text Link Ads - tried this too, spending $100 with no real benefit.
Forum signatures - have over 2,000 posts on some forums, dunno if this helps
It will bring referral traffic

[kremlin]

SERP is not permanent, that's why we must keep the good SERP continuously. I do social bookmarking for it. and I also do exchange links to get permanent quality backlink.