Get Top Rankings in Google
Inbound links are critical to your site's success
Here are some basic ways you can set up a linking strategy.
1. Examine your competition's links and ask them to link to you
You can do this by visiting http://sitexplorer.yahoo.com select "inlinks" and entering your competition's website in the box.
The explorer will now list all links to that site.
Be sure to exclude links for the same domain because these will just be links within the site
Now take a look at the list and decide who to approach.
Some results will be from cheap or paid for niche directories, ideal. Submit your site
Some will be blogs. Ideal .You could also post to the blog and get a linkback to your site.
Some will be from information sites in your niche. Ideal. These people will naturally want to know about your site as well and so the site owner will want to list you
Sites that may or may not list you
Phone them up. people respond much more positively to direct calls, and ask for a link.
You may have to offer something in return.
For example a free report on the industry which you have written.
Or perhaps just simply a cash payment
One way links where they link to you and you do not reciporcate, are more powerful than a link exchange, although that may not always be possible
2. Do a search in google for your
keyword + submit
or
keyword + add url
This will list sites in your sector who are willing to list your site.
List them up and methodically visit and submit to them
3. Write up a good quality article in your market and submit to the main article directories such has :
http://www.articledashboard.com/
http://www.articlebiz.com/
http://www.articlealley.com/
http://ezinearticles.com/
http://www.ezinearticles.biz/
http://www.articlecity.com/
http://www.ezinearticle.net/
When other people use your article in their site, they automatically include the link to you so that visitors can link through to you for more info etc
Remember
Good quality articles = good quality links. So the better you make your article the more links you will build up
Good luck with your link building
Google declared 2007 the year of the links !
Search engine marketing