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If you want to make the most profit possible in your chosen niche, then you need to do your best to ensure you build residual traffic. And what better way to do this than to win at the search engines? This involves a lot of steps.

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. Perhaps one of the best and easiest ways is submitting articles to article directories. These sites have been around for some time and have built search engine love. Best of all, all it will cost you are the time and effort in writing and submitting your article.

The strongest advantage of article submission, from a link-building point of view, is that you determine your anchor text. You decide what your anchor text says and this means that you decide which keywords you get ranked for.

Now, some people think that they can submit just a few articles and have first page ranking. While this may happen in some low competition niches, you’ll need to submit many articles to reap the rewards. The more competitive your niche is, the more articles you’ll have to submit.

Bear in mind that you need to ensure you use the right tools and strategy if you want to get the most from this. For example, you need to ensure that each instance of your article on each article directory is unique. There are tools and services that take care of this and your article submissions.

2. You can start blogs that are related in theme to your main site. Since your blogs are different webpages from your main site, links from them will help you increase your main site’s link popularity.

Lack of money is certainly NOT an excuse to postpone starting your own blog. You only need to have what you want to say. Just make sure it’s some useful and relevant to your theme. You can start within a few minutes for free at either blogger.com or wordpress.com.

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. Have you heard of sites like digg.com? You’ve probably used them. You can build links to your site by bookmarking your articles on these sites. You’ll also do well to make it easy for your site visitors to easily bookmark them.

What happens when others see your pages on their bookmarks and visit? They might also add you to their bookmarks if they like what they read. These will go a long way in getting you high quality links from these highly respected sites.

4. You certainly shouldn’t forget web directories as you do your link building. They are very important for your link-building success.

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.

You can make your work a lot easier by using a directory submission service or software. It’s up to you to decide what your time is worth and how much such a tool or service will save you.

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.

Although we’ve touched many ways to build links to your site, they are NOT the only ways. But just bear in mind why you’re building links: It’s to drive massive free and residual targeted traffic to your site.

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