What are some ways to link build for your website? I know of the following waysBut was told they are the old way)1. Create eye catching meta tags and content.2. Check google for keyword phrases relating to your website.3. Check to see who is linking to your competitors and have those link to you.

You are forgetting the most important thing: CONTENTIf you have unique, witty, funny, interesting, highly informative content, people will be more than willing to link to your site. Especially with the growing popularity of bookmarking sites such as digg, del.i.cious and others, people can discover your site and actually share it with others.This is the strategy called LINK BAITING -- which is basically creating content that people would want to link to Then there are the press releases. If you submit a press release and it goes to Google News for example, a lot of sites will pick up the press release. Utilize the power of RSS. Here are some sites you can use to submit your press release for free or low costhttp://www.prleap.com/sign_up.htmlhttp://i-newswire.com/http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/http://www.pressbox.co.uk/cgi-bin/links/add.cgihttp://www.pr.com/press-releaseshttp://www.prfree.com/http://www.clickpress.com/releases/index.shtmlhttp://www.theopenpress.com/http://www.przoom.com/http://www.prweb.comhttp://www.newswiretoday.com/http://www.free-press-release.com/Then there's the old way by sending emails to sites you want to link to you. Be careful though with reciprocal links in terms of giving links to sites not related to you (e.g linking to a mortgage website when your site is all about babies) as Google can penalize you.

Your looking at expensive and low level efforts. Obviously you want to have link worthy content. However, you can have the best content in the world and if people don't find it to start with then they can't link to it. If they can link to it then you can be found for it... Thus the evil cycle. 1. Answer questions like in place like Yahoo Answers and put your link in the source. 2. Use social media communities to help get some visibility for your content... SutmbleUpon, Squidoo, Facebook, etc etc.. Digg, Reddit, Delicious...3. Go out to niche forums and offer value and participate. Leave a nice little link to your site in the footer but don't spam. Use your imagine and look for places where you could get away with a link to your site without spamming.

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