Originally Posted by kline11

You don't need backlinks, you need good content...then natural backlinks will follow.

Too many webmasters dig up backlinks anyway they can and waste a lot of time doing this. It's a$$ backwards! Create content WORTH linking too FIRST, then backlinks will come.

Backlinks will only come if someone finds your content - its the whole chicken and egg sceanareo!

Good content should create natural backlinks from websites that want to link to yours as a way to give a better service to their visitors...good content is king...also, submit links to directories, search engines, article directories, forum posts, blog comments, free ads....

yah!content is the king also create a blog and do rss feed then submit it to rss feeds directories. If they like the stories many people would like it and you'll get a free links.

if you like the content on the site please link to it so the Xuroq Flash open source site can expand

only relevant site. Link to relevant sites only, sites that are related to your site.

Social bookmarking and commenting on do follow blog also help in getting back links..

You can also gain backlinks through article submission and press release distribution.

what about advertising. Is it a good idea

Depends on what sites you advertise on.

Creating backlinks is easily and faster than coming with really really good and unique content that people want to link to.

I think promoting your site is a bonus! Get as many backlinks as possible

Originally Posted by youngheart

Creating backlinks is easily and faster than coming with really really good and unique content that people want to link to.

What's the point of having a site that no-one really wants to link to? If your site is useless no-one will waste their time there even if you do somehow manage to get to the top of the SERPs

Signup with some of the free link exchange sites, linkpartner

Originally Posted by freight guy

Signup with some of the free link exchange sites, linkpartner

All i can say is NO!!!

Originally Posted by magicvw

What's the point of having a site that no-one really wants to link to? If your site is useless no-one will waste their time there even if you do somehow manage to get to the top of the SERPs

Of course you will have to a have a reasonable amount of good content on your site so that people want to link to you. Your site shouldn't be useless, or else what the use of the site...the site is a 'rubbish dump' ?

What I saying is that easier and faster to create backlinks than coming up with very good and unique content - here I am comparing these 2 methods of getting the links to your site.

Of course you will have to a have a reasonable amount of good content on your site so that people want to link to you.

Quite true!

Otherwise you just have to resort to forum signature link dropping to get links.

Originally Posted by youngheart

Of course you will have to a have a reasonable amount of good content on your site so that people want to link to you. Your site shouldn't be useless, or else what the use of the site...the site is a 'rubbish dump' ?

What I saying is that easier and faster to create backlinks than coming up with very good and unique content - here I am comparing these 2 methods of getting the links to your site.

There's no logic here. If you spend the time making some "very good and unique content", as you put it, then people will WANT to backlink to you when they find your site.

If you just have tonnes of backlinks without spending the effort on your content, what are your visitors ultimately going to do? OK, they will visit, you will bask in the artificial glow of getting more hits, but after 5 seconds they will leave and never come back.

Your priority should surely be FIRST to make a quality site, then go for the backlinks if that floats your boat, and then your visitors might actually stay around, buy something and even spread the word about your site themselves.

What, in your opinion, is a "reasonable" amount of good content? For me it would be 95-100% good. Just as an illustration, my site has very few back links (less than 30 probably) but two of them are on University Websites in America where the lecturers have given a link to my site to their undergraduate students as part of their reading list, and so I get a lot of hits from them. I didn't ask for the backlinks, they came naturally.

Hi xuroq,

A great way to get backlinks that has worked for me in the past is to submit your website to popular Web Directories! Some of these are free, others aren't.

Here are just a few:
www.dmoz.org/
www.dirmania.org/
http://www.paiddirectory.com/
www.allwebdirectory.com/
http://www.dbestdir.com/

Hope that helps! I've used all these myself!

Originally Posted by xuroq

I realise now that the best and really the only way that i am going to go up the rankings in google it backlinks. But my question is where do I get them from?

Just do this:

Join forums with sig
directory submission
article submission
blog comment
QA sites
group posting
social bookmarkings

I only concentrate on forms, directory submission and bookmarking my site ( also join to social networking site it really helps!)