Building high quality backlinks to your site is probably the most important factor in order to get high rankings and lots of traffic from the major search engines.

Here are a few simple tips that should help you to build more incoming links:

* Quality of incoming links is more important than quantity. Ask other site owners to link back to your site. Make sure these sites provide quality content, cover a topic that’s related to yours and have a high page rank (PR).

* When writing an article, a forum post, a blog post… , link back to your site and use your primary and secondary keywords in the link text.

* Before you send a link request, link to the other person first and ask to link back with a specific phrase (your keywords in the link text).

* To get more positive responses, always make your link-requests personal. Tell the other person what you liked about his site, why he should consider linking back to you….

* Focus on networking – build relationships with lots of other site owners.

* Always use a bio-box at the end of your articles and a sig file with your forum posts linking back to your site.

* Create a free blog on www.wordpress.com and link back to your site.

* Get some links from quality directories like dmoz.org - consider also buying links from secondary directories, like JoeAnt, Gimpsy, Skaffe, GoGuides…

* Signup with social bookmarking sites (Squidoo.com, digg.com, del.iicio.us … check out http://www.socialize-it.com for more sites) and bookmark (add a favorite) your site or blog.

* If you have a blog, regularly ping sites like technorati.com, pingomatic.com, api.feedster.com/ping, http://api.moreover.com/ping … If you use a WordPress blog, this will be handled automatically for you.

If you want to learn more about search engine optimization and effective link building, I recommend you check out the Blog at SEOBook.com

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