There are onsite and offsite factors that determine whether you'll rank high for the keyphrases you target or not. But of them all (those that we are sure of), getting high quality links to your site happens to be the surest way of ranking high for your chosen keywords. Let's look at some ways to get those links...



1. Piggy-back on sites that have built a reputation by submitting your articles to article directories. This is a very effective link-building method. Furthermore, you can do it without spending a dime.

The good thing about this method is that you will determine your anchor text for each article submitted. This is a very good thing as you'll have more control over which keywords or key phrases you get ranked for.

Don't just submit one article to one directory and think you're done. Keep submitting articles at least once a week to as many article sites as you can find.

Just make sure you have the right tools for this or you'll be wasting your time and money. Some services help you submit unique versions of each article to each article directory. This increases the effectiveness of your efforts and gets you as many as 500 to 1,000 permanent links for each article you submit through them.

2. Blogging is another way of getting one way links to your main site. Remember that a blog is seen as a different website from your main site. Therefore, links from it help you build your link popularity.

This is a good way for you to have as many webpages as you can without spending much. It will only take you just a few minutes to start your own blog. Visit sites like wordpress.com or blogger.com to start yours for free.

Do you have to start a blog to build links with them? No. You can easily build many high quality links if you make useful comments on other people's blog. Just make sure they "do follow" and that you link back to your site.

3. Make sure you bookmark your articles on sites like digg.com and del.icio.us. Also give your visitors the opportunity of bookmarking your articles. These are quality links to your site.

Furthermore, it makes saving and sharing your content a lot easier. With so many social bookmarking sites out there, you can get high quality links to your site since most of them are sites that are highly respected by Google.

4. Web directories are great sources of high quality inbound links. There are free directories and there are also paid ones.

Although Dmoz takes such a long time to review and include a site, don't miss it. But while you wait, remember that there are other directories that will help your link popularity.

Search for other directories and submit to them. Submit both to big general directories and smaller niche directories. Just remember that these sites are highly respected and links from them are worth a lot.

There are services and software that will help you submit your site to many directories. Depending on the demand on your time, this may be a very viable option.

5. Most forums allow you to link back to your site. So look for high PR forums and post helpful comments. Spamming is NOT a viable strategy as it will hurt you on the long run.

There are a few other ways to get quality links. But you can be sure of one thing: You'll soon start seeing massive traffic to your site if you commit to the methods discussed in this article.