Have you heard about link building tools? If you haven't heard about them yet, you are still not prepared for the web. To reach the top positions on Google, you must have strong link building strategies. For this, you need to use the right tools which will make link building easier and more effective.

Articles: Write creative articles about your products or services and post them on article directories. Every article that you post has the potential to create thousands of links for your site. The articles should be relevant to your business and catch the reader's interest.

Blogs: An off site blog is a good way to build links and increase traffic to you site. This is because each blog is seen as a different web page. You'll also generate traffic to your site in addition to pretty good inbound links.

Bookmarks: Bookmarks are one of the best link building tools. You are linking back to your site every time you are bookmarking it. Propeller and Digg.com are two good examples of such sites. Including social bookmarks widgets to your articles help the sharing and saving process of your content by the readers. Over 50 Social Bookmarking sites are available on the web and tools are available to bookmark for most of them.

Web Directories: You can get natural quality links with web directories. They are the best link building tools these days. You'll get a higher amount of inbound links when listing your site with a large number of directories. Use the directory submitter tools on the web site to ease directory submission of your site.

There is also directory submission software available that contains a huge database of directories within their program. Such software carries out site submission automatically. This is a real time saver, as you need not search for theme directories over the net. There are many companies online that provide quick and free software for directory submission.

Forums: Find and post to forums related to you business. Add a discrete link back to your site to all of your posts. If you do this often, you'll build a significant number of inbound links and attract some good traffic too.

Social Networking: Social networking is one of the most effective tools available. You are probably already doing this for some time, but don't use it for your business yet. You make friends and subtly lure some of them towards your site.

I've listed here the 6 most effective and widely used link building tools. They are not new. You were certainly already using most of them if not all, but you probably never thought they could bring customers to your business!