link building for seo

Lightbulb Link Building for SEO
Link building is the key for an effective SEO campaign. This works best for PR and SERP. Always provide useful and relevant content in your websites niche as this will help in quality organic linking - sites will naturally link to your site once they see unique and helpful information in your site. Keep in mind that the more targeted backlinks you build for your site, the more likely it will bring in the right visitors that could make the conversions for better revenue. You do targeted link buidling for fast and long term traffic to your sites.

There are several ways to build links. Here are just some of the following:

Directory Submissions - targeted links at high PR directories
Blog and Forum Postings - to high PR and frequently crawled sites
Social Bookmarking
Classified Ads
Article Marketing - submit to high PR directories, could also serve as link baits
Link Exchange - with relevant sites authority sites
Link Baits - for organic linking
Etc. etc.

What are your thoughts? What kind of link building method do you use and how effective has it been?

I also consider:
Blog Commenting - PR2 above related blogs could give quality backlinks on your site. A positive comments/thoughts are required before providing a link through your site.

Press Release Submission - This process takes time but somehow the effectiveness of these gives a good reputation or higher exposure on your site. But "write good to gain good" as it needed.

hmmm..... i think forums, classifieds, and directories are great help in link building.... also blogging and blog comments

Yes, it is right that link building is the power of seo, but it is not the real power and some time have no worth without, suitable keyword density in the content of your site.
and your targeted keywords must be in the title of your site.
It would save your time and resource and with a few links you would be in high ranking in search engines.

Yes link building is power of seo which helps in both pr and serp. I will concentrate on these things while doing link building:
Article marketing
Forum posting
Blog Commenting
Press release
Social networking.

Quality content is most important in all of these.

I do prefer- links from High Pr article sites, Interlinking, links from .org and .gov sites...I pay sometimes and sometimes i get payment.

I think in link building one should need to work hard on all various tips and the most important thing is to keep regularity in your work. Forum posting with good posts from different anchor texts can give you good backlinks. This is only one technique, there are so many methods to do well in SEO with link building.

Actually, there are lots of link building techniques that you can use. Yes, forum posting is one of the powerful tactics that you can use but please don't try to spam a forum site like this. It will takes a while to gain/allow signatures to use, you have to follow the forum rules or else.

There are lots of choices you can make in how to build links and gain traffic, one of this is commenting into an article post that is related to your niche. Most of the article submitted is a do follow so it will be crawled by the bots and you can have an organic traffic with it.

you can also try yedda. It's a dofollow answer site where you can also post a link to your tag line. But of course you have to answer some questions relevant to your site and must provide an informative answer to other members.

Blogging, social bookmarking and articles are good...