I think that's the classic way not the smart way of building backlinks.

Getting Backlinks Naturally
Many backlinks are achieved the natural way. When your website provides users with useful content, webmasters and website owners will often link to these useful web pages (on your site) for their website visitors to use. Most often then not, these sites that link to yours naturally are relevant to your sites content. Also known as "targeted backlinks", these types of backlinks are the most beneficial when generating quality traffic from them. Getting natural backlinks, however, is a slow process. These are built mostly on trust and gaining trust takes time.

With the tough competition today, it is nearly impossible to build backlinks in the most natural way!

Mentioning about directories, I don't think google look to it as important criteria for good serp ranking. Exception maybe for DMOZ and other established librarian directory.

Originally Posted by esdee

I discovered that posting about known celebrities will earn you backlinks (generally by linkbaiting) site owners from a fansite or celebrity site will link up your article and voila, instant backlink.

This is the best idea that I've read about in a week, (at least!).

So, let's say that Joe has a blog and writes a new post about whatever he
blogs about and somehow manages to fit a celebrity name into his post with
a few lines.

Then how do the fan sites know that Joe mentioned the celebrity?

Am I missing something?

Bompa

Originally Posted by ganb

But tell in one page of single thread have around 40 - 50 signature links. Google take all them in their notice or just few ones. I am asking this because I am not getting backlinks from many forum and I think this can be one reason as well. All are Do Follow forums.

Would I be able to tell if a link was a no follow link by simply hovering over the link and reading the url or is it hidden?

Originally Posted by kline11

This is true, so submit and forget.

that's right mate, for some of my recent client site i h've been doing that. But some of them said it will accept but take's more time than normal one.

Originally Posted by kline11

Google is whare backlinks really count. I just thought I'd share this info to save webmasters time and AVOID MISTAKES.

Getting Backlinks Naturally
Many backlinks are achieved the natural way. When your website provides users with useful content, webmasters and website owners will often link to these useful web pages (on your site) for their website visitors to use. Most often then not, these sites that link to yours naturally are relevant to your sites content. Also known as "targeted backlinks", these types of backlinks are the most beneficial when generating quality traffic from them. Getting natural backlinks, however, is a slow process. These are built mostly on trust and gaining trust takes time.

Building Backlinks
One of the acceptable ways of building quality backlinks is listing your site in directories, posting in forums, and submitting to article directories. What you want to avoid is link farms, spam sites or sites that host illegal content, purchasing links in bulk, etc.

Getting Listed in Directories
Getting listed in directories like DMOZ and Yahoo is a must because this is a way to get some quality backlinks for free and your site is easily noticed by search engines and potential visitors. Generally inclusion in these directories is free but the drawback is that sometimes you have to wait months before you get listed...or not listed at all. Top directories like DMOZ and Yahoo have strict guidlines when submitting, so follow the rules carefully. Yahoo also has a "pay for review" option that is costly and does not mean you will get listed. I would suggest submitting the free listing first, then wait a few months to see if your site is listed before considering the paid option.

Article Directories and Forums
Generally search engines index forums so posting in forums is way great way to get quality backlinks. Join forums with subject matter relevant to your site, add your URL (link) with anchor text of your choice to your forum signature, then contribute to the discussions. Be sure that you abide by the forum rules before you post anything...and do not post just for the backlinks. Forum administrators are not stupid. If your are truly contributing, your posts will not get deleted and you won't get banned. Also, sometimes administrators do not allow links in posts, unless they are relevant ones, so it is best to leave your link in your signature.

Submitting articles to directories can be more time-consuming then posting in forums. If you can write good articles on subjects related to your site, it's well worth the backlinks.

Feed them with RSS
Offer free content through RSS feeds to interested sites. When the other site publishes your RSS feeds, you will not only get backlinks to your site, but potentially a lot of visitors. Publishers of the feeds in return get to add relevant content to their site. It's a "win-win situation".

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Really nice tips but i would like to add that for Article, directory, bookmarking, classified etc submission , we have to be selective and do not go for huge number of submissions but select high quality dir,bookmarks, classified sites only.