Link Building.

Links pointing in to the pages of your site are an essential element for ranking for any phrase that has competition. So how does everyone here go about building backlinks?

I will stand back for a while and allow everyone else to post, then I will chime in with any hints tips and trade secrets

That wouldn't be any fun and wouldn't encourage people to think

Nothing wrong with links from good directories. Don't believe all you read.

Forum sigs good for spidering, and a bit of juice as well. Blog comments, as long as they are on topic and not 'NOFOLLOW' then again they are ok. Link exchanges depnding on how and where they are linked, again not bad (despite what some will tell you).

Article writing, is good if done properly and followed up for maximum affect. Anchor text is the crux here. make it look natural. Don't load all your links with your main phrase, vary it.

What about links from auctions on ebay? Oh yes and 'about me' pages ?

You can have 30 day auctions on ebay, even longer in ebay shop listings. I was talking about 'Me' pages on ebay which are permanant.

Thanks Gina, do you have to have an ebay shop for a 'me' page?

OWG, thanks for those, much appreciated

Hi

I came up with the idea of my website but knew nothing about the internet when it comes to building links etc.  I generated links and interest in my site by submitting articles to relevant work from home sites.  I also added Twitter and facebook pages recently.  Although this has not generated huge hits for my site it has helped and steadily builds up users and search engine listings.  It's a long process but I enjoy it and have picked up loads of contacts and built relationships with these contacts.  I have swapped banner adverts and articles with people.  I am still learning but I seem to be generating traffic and building a good reputation for my site.

I love to leverage what I do and use a service called Senuke
I will write a really good quality article and load up it up.
I then distribute that article 7 places at a time, using different anchor texts
and all pointing back to different pages on my site.

These include top article directories and high page rank web 2.0 properties
these sites have page rank from 2-8 so very powerful.

However that is just articles. Then you have
Videos
Blogs
RSS
Social networks
Bookmarking
etc

Google denies using page signals, but having looked att heir patents, it is obvious that they have at the very least invested money on page signalling as part of their algorithm (possibly for news ).

Page signalling is where a page/company/url etc might be mentioned, but not linked. Twitter is a clear example of this action.

So yes I think you could be right, but it is only a tiny minute amount, but it could help with your trust rank, which in turn could help your  ranking.

the legupyou get will not include link juice as the link is nofollow and google ingonres it., That is crystal clear, they will not go back on that. So the PR5 thing isn't of value. Also if you have to be logged in to see your facebook page, then again the links are of no use (same applies renofollow).

the best way to check is to have a look at the cache.

This is very interesting topic, I’m currently working on building my rank with Google and any advise is greatly appreciated; D

Whilst I 100% agree with the making the footprint look normal, Google treat nofollowed links as paid links, and as such don't pass any benefit whatsoever, beyond the normal noise thing.