Link building is the key for an effective SEO campaign. This works best for PR and SERP. Always provide useful and relevant content in your websites niche as this will help in quality organic linking - sites will naturally link to your site once they see unique and helpful information in your site. Keep in mind that the more targeted backlinks you build for your site, the more likely it will bring in the right visitors that could make the conversions for better revenue. You do targeted link buidling for fast and long term traffic to your sites.

There are several ways to build links. Here are just some of the following:

Directory Submissions - targeted links at high PR directories
Blog and Forum Postings - to high PR and frequently crawled sites
Social Bookmarking
Classified Ads
Article Marketing - submit to high PR directories, could also serve as link baits
Link Exchange - with relevant and authority sites
Link Baits - for organic linking
Etc. etc.

What are your thoughts? What kind of link building method do you use and how effective has it been?

yep true, link building is a important key for SEO but latest trend for instant outbound link by social bookmarking, blogging rather than directory, Article submission, link exchange. digg, reddit, technorati, clipclip.org, zestbit.com, stumbleupon all r gud social networking.

Link building through making a squidoo lens,hubpages.com, zimbio, or gather.com

I like the squidoo lens thing...they seem to rank highly on Google sometimes as well. It could well be worth putting together a decent one for your site.

in my view forum posting is best!

No decent forum allows link dropping - so most of the links dropped are spam.

And most get removed quickly - and those that don't will have poor value. Google can recognise in a nanosecond a forum full of unrelated lins, most to cr*p sites - if you choose to join them, you may find a bad neighborhood close behind.

So, in general, a good forum won't allow link drops - and a bad forum will - but likely they'll have very little value.

It's really time people learned Google's views on unrelated links

I rarely see a directory with PR on their linking pages since Google started penalizing directories for selling links.

I think good old fashioned link building with relevant sites has and will always be the best way.

I think good old fashioned link building with relevant sites has and will always be the best way.

Part 1 of a good two-part plan.

Part 2 is - build lots of quality, uniqe content.

It might surprise folks how far a well written, polite, e-mail will go towards securing a link to your site from a related one.

Sports guy, true and we dont see alot politness these days when it comes to link requests because so many seo's are trying to automate the process. When i was a steakhouse cook
my customers came not only for the food but because they could also talk to me about their everyday problems. Its the human factor.

Very cool - like being abartender, but with more substance.

Was your job description titled a steer-tender?

Link building good factor of keyword ranking. Used link on your keyword. Google page rank is assigning this one factor also count on Page Rank assign. Many activity are used create link building.
1). Reciprocal link(two way link) create two way link for particular theme.
2). Three way link exchange.
3). Directory submission.
4). Forum posting
5). Comments Posting
6). Article Submission
7). Create Blog
8). Blog Promotion

All activity is used for make link buiding.

Nice post...very useful and i plan to implement. thanks

Items 1, 2, 4, 5 are mostly spam, or likely to be treated as spam.

When carrying out 3 and 6, most of the sites you might submit to are junk.


Doesn't leave a lot to work with from that list.

Anyone recommending a three way link exchange has probably been in prison for the past four years. Or watching "Lost".

Google can spot such amateur spam at 3,678.6KM

Google can spot 17-way linking at 768.9KM

Think about it; what does Google do for a living?