If you are trying to make money online with your own website, you probably know the best free traffic comes from Google. What you might not know is how to get your site to show up in Google's search results. The best way is building backlinks to your site. Here are 5 ways you can build quality backlinks to your site and move up the search engine results page.

Forums

Forums are a great way to build backlinks. It works like this: you find a forum on a topic related to your site. Once you have looked around, seen it is an active and friendly forum fill out your profile page.

Once you have your profile filled out, go to the signature area. Once there fill in a catchy sentence that includes your main keyword and make that the link to your site.

A signature link in a forum shows up each and every time you post to the forum. It will show up below your post automatically. This is a great way to get traffic. Not only will you be getting great backlinks to get more traffic from Google, but if you provide quality information on the forum people get to know you and like you. You will start getting traffic from the forum itself.

Article Marketing

This is the best way to get a lot of backlinks fast. You simply write a quality article filled with great information. At the bottom of your article you include your "resource box" this is a space you can include a keyword anchor text link to your site.

Then just submit your article to article directories. You will get links from the directories, but other online publishers will come and use your article in their content or newsletter. This gives you even more backlinks, from different places.

Blog Comments

You can find blogs on related topics. Stop by the blog and read the posts. If you have something to add to the conversation leave a comment.

When you leave a comment at a blog you can use the name field of the comment form for your keyword. Then fill in the rest of the information and your comment. This will give you an anchor text link back to your site. Make sure you look around and make sure the blog owner allows this. Some don't and will consider it spamming. Most marketing blogs will allow you to do this, and many blog owners don't care.

As you can see there are tons of ways you can create backlinks to your site. The trick is you have to do it. It can be much more fun to spend time creating content, and interacting in social networking communities for traffic, but if you want to get organic search traffic you are going to have to build backlinks. There's no way around it.