After you are done optimizing your titles, descriptions, keywords, alts, page texts and all the other factors of your website's search engine optimization; you must know that the real work starts now. If you do not plan to build backlinks, your website will not be a part of the top search engine results nor will it see any decent amount of organic traffic. By the way, organic traffic is the traffic that search engines bring you for free by providing your website as a search result for a given keyword. If you would like to learn about the power of backlinks, read this article: "Backlinks Are Still The Major Website Traffic Stream".
In short, to succeed in getting more traffic to your website, you must build backlinks. Backlinks are simply the links to your website from other websites.

Building backlinks works two ways, directly and indirectly:
-  Directly by submitting your website to places where submissions are accepted such as web directories.
-  Indirectly by spreading your link around the internet wherever possible or by creating linkbaits.

Linkbaiting is a strategy that webmasters use to motivate other website owners and whoever is browsing the internet to link to their websites. Weather by creating good content on your website or by offering something unique, you might have already created linkbaits without knowing that you have done so. If you have not done so, you should start thinking seriously about creating some linkbaits while building your backlinks.
The following list contains many ways to help you start or continue with your backlinks building strategy. The list is not ordered in any way. You will probably find some ways which you already have done, some simple, some hard, some you can start right away and some that takes a long time to implement and ultimately succeed in bringing traffic to your website.
However, do not under estimate the power of a simple task and do not get lazy on the major tasks that require to be done again again. Work for an hour everyday on one or more of the tasks; compare your traffic today to the traffic you will be getting to your website just in 3 months period. Keep doing it, and your website traffic will increase exponentially.

If you cannot find a way to increase your website traffic, here is 101 ways:
1-  Web Directories: Submit your website to online web directories especially the ones that relates to your website content. This is probably the easiest way to start your backlinks building campaign.
 Some directories are free, some require a backlink on your website and some are paid directories. You need to do some research on how to evaluate directories. Good directories among other factors usually have a better Google pagerank and higher traffic rank.
In general, the best web directory for your website is the directory that relates or concentrates on the niche or theme of your website. If it is a general directory, make sure to submit your website to the category that best describes your website content.
 The most famous directories online are the dmoz and the Yahoo! Directory. You can check a list of directories in the webmasters directory of directories.

2-  Article Writing & Article Directories: Article directories bring you popularity, backlinks and traffic.
Write articles that relates to your website and include your website link in a resource or biography section at the end of your article. Some article directories allow you to include links in the text, make sure to have two or three of your major keywords linked to your website where allowed.
Article writing for building traffic and backlinks is a strategy that webmasters has been and still using effectively. The problem is that some website owners either ignores it or does not trust their writing skills. You have to deal with laziness if you have any, but you must find a way to overcome your writing capabilities, either by hiring someone to write your articles or by using any kind of help.
If you are running a website, there must be things that you can talk about in 500 words or more articles. Subjects could be about the importance of your product, how your service helps achieve tasks easier, giving tips, shortcuts …etc.
Better articles create better motivation for the reader to click on your resource link. Note also, even if the reader does not click on your link, you still get a backlink with each article. The same article can be submitted to numerous article directories creating even more backlinks. 
Try to publish your article within your website content before submitting it to article directories. This way, the article text will be indexed first on your website and will be ranked higher on your website when search engine find the duplicates elsewhere.
Check this list of article directories where you can submit your articles.

3-  Forums Signatures: If you are not involved in any forum that discusses subjects related to your website, get involved!
The first thing to do is to create a profile. Most of the forums now allow you to create a customized signature. In your signature, include the link to your website; with every post you get a backlink to your website. Now, do not be shy to ask questions, provide answers and appreciate solutions.

4-  Forum Posts: If you know the solution to a problem or the answer to a question and you feel your answer could benefit more users, put it on your website and direct the members to look at it at your website.
The thumb rule here is to avoid spamming. Unless you are the “spammer”, know that everyone hates spamming. Spamming will make you lose reputation and probably waste lots of good work that you might have done.  This rule applies to all the points of this list; I mentioned it here because it becomes obvious in forums the most.
Having said that, you can learn a lot from forums. When looking around forums, you will find that people ask small questions where the answer could be lengthy and useful for many others. If you can formulate that answer to something that could go beyond a forum post, then that will be a good idea for post content on your website. Furthermore, you can formulate it into an article and submit it to article directories.
Looking at questions will provide you with ideas and enhance your knowledge to know what your potential clients are looking for.

5-  Online Communities and Discussion Boards: If you are a member of any community, always include a backlink to your website in your profile. Most communities have their own discussion boards. You can try to get opinions about your website. The discussion will help you enhance your website and get more backlinks.

6-  Ask Questions Websites: Whenever you ask for information, identify yourself by a link to your website. A good example of this is the Yahoo questions and answers.

7-  Answer Questions: Also when you answer questions, give your website as a reference.

8-  Blog posts: If you are blogging, make sure to have a backlink to your website.

9-  Commenting:Any where you comment on articles, blogs, forums that you read online, don’t forget to include a backlink to your website even if you are getting only a nofollow attributed links. Nofollow links can also bring you traffic if the article or comment becomes popular. Again, do not spam otherwise you will lose your reputation and your website’s reputation.

10-  Link Exchange: It is a strategy used by webmasters where you give a website a link on your website and they give you a backlink to your website. It is not as effective as it was before. Furthermore, some webmasters are not recommending it at all. I still think that it does not harm.

11-  Social Bookmarking: They are becoming a very good source for backlinks. At least bookmark yourself.
Create good content on your website, other members will eventually bookmark you and you’ll get a free backlink. A good example is delicious.com and digg.com. Look for more and register your free account on all the popular social bookmarking sites.

12-  Stumble upon: at least hit the”I like this” for your web page. If you can find stumble upon partners, this will help bring traffic to your website beyond expectations.

13-  Family and Friends: if your family members or friends have websites, ask them to give you a link to your website.

14-  Business Partners: if you resell products for a business, ask supplier or manufacturers to put a backlink to your website as a reseller or a business partner.

15-  Business or School Colleagues: If your colleagues at work have websites ask them for links to your website. Maybe in exchange for a link on your website.

16-  RSS and News Feeds: Submit your news and new content to news websites with links to news or new content pages on your website.

17-  Your Web Designer: Ask your web designer to include your website link in their web design portfolio.

18-  Customer Referrals: ask your satisfied customers to recommend you on their website.

19-  Press Releases: Submit press release about events in your business and website. Of course include the link to your website. The most popular press releases website is prweb.com

20-  Phone Directories: Most of them now have a web version for their listings. Always have your website in your listing information.

21-  Ask for reviews and opinions about your website design where possible.

22-  Ask for reviews and opinions about your product or services.

23-  Give reviews and opinions about websites with your website in the signature.

24-  Give reviews and opinions and rate products with your website in the signature.

25-  Provide testimonials for work done for you.

26-  Ask for testimonials for work that you do.

27-  Create a Squidoo lenses about your website, products, services or anything you like. Don’t forget to link to your website.

28-  Create hubpages about your website, products, services or anything related. Also include links to your website.

29-  Create manuals, step-by-step guides and references and include your website as reference. Look for related places to submit them on the internet.

30-  Convert manuals, step-by-step guides and references to pdf format or e-books and provide them as a free download on your website. Free downloads are very good linkbaits.

31-  Contribute something free that relates to your website and post it in related communities.

32-  Create something free and make a backlink to your website a requirement to acquire this thing.

33-  Buy backlinks if your budget permits. Only be careful where to buy from and make sure that the website hosting your link is worth it.

34-  Submit your resume to job directories; include your website link in your resume.

35-  Create a 101 list such as this one. These lists tend to attract backlinks. Publish lists on your website then submit them to article directories.

36-  Create a top 10 list. Also tends to attract backlinks. Publish them on your website then submit them to article directories.

37-  Create resources lists that relates to your website content. Those are good link baits and traffic generators. Some article directories will not allow you to publish a list of links, however you can direct blog visitors, forums or communities to the list especially when you find someone looking for something related..

38-  Create tips and how tos lists they are also attractive to links. Do not assume that people know what you know! Submit them to article directories and publish them on your website. Also you can direct visitors to it where appropriate.

39-  Create “things to avoid” lists. Submit them to article directories and publish them on your website. Also you can direct visitors to it where appropriate.

40-  Create tutorials on your website and submit them to tutorial directories.  Most of the tutorial directories will link directly to the tutorial on your website. If you are submitting the full tutorial, don’t forget your link. Good tutorials usually build both traffic and backlinks.

41-  Create informational or directions videos and submit them to video directories such as YouTube. Include your link both in the signature and the video.

42-  Provide valuable information and try to get listed in Wikipedia.

43-  Wherever you submit copyrighted material, provide your link in the copyright notice.

44-  Run a contest on your website. Tends to bring lots of backlinks and traffic.

45-  Enter into contests and try to win. Even if you don’t win, you still can get backlinks.

46-  If you can, sponsor contests by providing a prize to winners. Prizes can be from the products or services that you provide on your website.

47-  Get involved in blog carnivals where a post contains links to other related website for a certain topic.

48-  Do not forget to have a “link to us page” on your website with easy backlink code and nicely ask your visitors to backlink to you.

49-  Your other websites: if you have more than one website, don’t forget to reference the other websites on it.

50-  Mini Sites: if your website has a broad subject, create mini sites that focus on a portion of that subject and provide your main site as a more information website. Hosting and domain name registrations is not too expensive. Try to host on different IPs for better link value.

51-  Get listed in your local business directory or directories.

52-  Try to get listed in your local library’s website.

53-  Sponsor local events in your community and get listed in the sponsors list.

54-  Participate in local events and see if there is a website for the event where you can find a way to have your link.

55-  Try to promote your service or product on craigslist.

56-  Write about something at about.com; maybe your brand or website.

57-  Provide an affiliate or reseller program at your website. A great way to both promote your products and services and get backlinks from affiliates and resellers.

58-  Host a collection of free useful tools on your website. A great linkbait and traffic generator.

59-  Provide a collection of free downloadable tools on your website. A great linkbait and traffic generator.

60-  Provide a collection of free downloads on your website. A great linkbait and traffic generator.

61-  Provide free e-books on subjects related to your niche and make it downloadable on your website. After writing many articles, you can compile them to a nice e-book.

62-  Create a blog on your website; build relations with other bloggers and exchange posts about each other.

63-  Interview experts and famous people that relates to your website and post interviews on your website.

64-  Get interviewed and mention your website in the interview. Post the interview on your website as well.

65-  If your product is good and unique enough, try to ask bloggers to review and blog about your website, product or services.

66-  If you are different, tell how you are different. Compare yourself to competitors.

67-  Try to get bloggers to blog about your website by contacting them and giving them a reason such as a new or a unique idea.

68-  If you cannot get free blog posts about your website, product or service;  try paid blogging services such as payperpost.com or SponsoredReviews.com

69-  Submit your products to price-comparison websites.

70-  Create a news section on your website that provides news relating to your industry. Make your news fresh and update regularly.

71-  If you can design, provide free website designs or templates with a backlink to your website.

72-  If you can write source code, write a program, a small tool or program and provide it for free on your website.

73-  If you can provide or know a good plug-in or a plug-in list for a system, share that information.

74-  Join in beta testing and post your opinions, reviews and recommendations.  Don’t forget that you are your link.

75-  Participate in surveys where you can have your website in the signature.

76-  Join relevant online groups. Google groups are a good start.

77-  Create a MySpace page for your website

78-  Create a FaceBook page for your website.

79-  Host an online seminar. While marketing the seminar, you get lots of backlinks depending on the importance of the subject.

80-  Host a conference on your website and invite a famous speaker or an expert.

81-  Give away coupons and promote them in coupon directories and lists.

82-  Create your own web directory: this is not only to submit your link to, but works as a linkbait that motivates directories of directories to link to your website.
 Webmasters like you are looking for a backlink; you give them some and get some from them. Also, will be a good place to host your link exchanges.

83-  Create your own article directory: your article directory could be a general directory or an article directory that concentrates on the niche of your website. Webmasters and users will link to the directory and to the articles within. This also works as a linkbait that grows you links with time not to mention growing and organizing your website content.

84-  Provide free memberships within your website. Works as a link bait and promotes higher level memberships.

85-  Compare products and give your honest opinions and experiences. This tends to bring traffic when people are looking to buy comparable products from different companies.
86-  Compare services from different companies. An example of this is web hosting comparisons. You can have your own for something related to your website content.

87-  Create a frequently asked questions page or a knowledgebase on your website. Go beyond support to help with your products and services.

88-  Create quizzes, tests and polls section on your website.

89-  Provide valuable statistics about an issue. People will link to it and visitors will look for it.

90-  Provide a research about a subject. These work in many directions. They work as link baits, great website content, organic search engine traffic and of course building reputation.

91-  Provide a rare founding such as a nice photograph or a historical fact.

92-  Create an award for something.

93-  Give your visitors a way to complain.

94-  Provide a list of ideas that relates to a subject, for example: link bait ideas.

95-  Provide new businesses ideas. People are always looking for something to do.

96-  Provide a way to make money. Needs not to be explained!

97-  Provide a list of new ways to do the same old thing. People like shortcuts and search for them.

98-  Unleash a secret. If you have a secret that you can tell… tell! Be honest and try not to get sued unless you know you are right.  If it is an invention; don’t forget to protect your legal rights.

99-  Publish something very funny or sarcastic. People will link to it and come back for more.

100-    Search and research the words “submit link”, “submit resource”, “submit url”, “submit web”, “submit page”, “submit story”, “submit article”, “submit tutorial”, “contribute”, “sponsor page”, “share info”,  “add url”, “add web”, “add article”, “add tutorial” … and similar keywords in search engines, mix and try again. Then see how your website can relate to the results. With this you can find many more new ways to build backlinks to your website. 

101-    Give an offer to buy Google! Do I need to say that even a rumor about a big deal such as this one will bring you lots of publicity and backlinks? :) The point here is to do something extraordinary or outrageous to make everyone online talk about it.

Here is a list links to help you get along:
·   A list of web directories where you can submit your websites.
·   A list of article directories to submit your articles.
·   A list of webmaster forums to help you accomplish your website tasks.
·   A list of social bookmarking websites.
·   A directory of tutorials to help you learn how to do things for the internet.

 Backlinks are with no doubt your primary source of website traffic. Backlinks bring you to the top of search engine results. Backlinks establishes your website popularity. Traffic to your website is the value of your website, backlinks are what creates traffic and therefore, building backlinks should be on the top of your priorities to maximize the traffic and value of your website.

Get to work; your website traffic depends on it. Good luck.

This article is written by Hassan Sayed webmaster at zeronese.net. and is a copyright of zeronese.net. Any reproduction in any form, modified or not is prohibited without a written notification provided solely by Zeronese, Inc.

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