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Another great art in this series. I completely agree with laying down the foundations; the JoeAnts and Y!Dir's are always a staple for us when SEO'ing any client. Then comes the bulk linkage with anchored text.

Then you go further in talking about press releasing and local interviews - I dont think enough SEO Companies or even simply online businesses go this 'extra mile' and it can be extremely effective especially when considering outgoing feeds.

@ pritesh: Backlinking means mining your competitors to see what links they are using. If someone is outranking you for, well lets just say "web design bolton", then you'd want to know what link juice they are getting. Somehow though, I think you already knew the answer to your question ;)

Very straight forward and to the point. thanks for this informative article, I plan on doing everything in your checklist. Thanks again!

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here is another I just came across.

"IT'S EASY to get links to your site from other websites. You, your webmaster or an intern can do the job. And this overlooked marketing strategy offers two big payoffs: more visitors and higher search engine rankings..."

Cherry picking needs to be included here, or is that a feather in the cap for the best link builders? The most valuable links are the toughest to receive, so anyone looking to link build needs to be comfortable selling their competitors on why their site is valuable.

Thanks for the info about link building debra

are links from same domani consideret valide? like link from domain.com and link from domain.com/page ?

Besides good SEO pratices, I think that one of the most important thing to do is to have a good content, then more backlinks will come naturally.

Nice summary for link building. Nowadays it really is all about building links in content, editorial votes as opposed to pagerank, which is simply one ranking metric.

By far the best way to build great links is to first build great, compelling content, and then manually solicit links from authority websites.

Thanks for these great tips!

Between directories being devalued and the fact that Google stoped officially recognizing them a few weeks ago everyone is going to be scrambling for links.  And they are definitely going after do-follow blogs so the options are closing fast.  My take is that Google is throwing out the baby with the bath water. 

The magic behind the web and linking is being tainted because can not figure out how to stop spammers, most of whom, work for Google via Adsense, lol

Great information and a great article with lots of facts about link building. Thanks for the help.

Great guide, this will come in very handy.

I am curious about where the threshold is in terms of content links versus nav / header links, and what your thoughts are in terms of non related links affecting rankings.

My sense is that non relevant links are helping, and that often even though many people say not to buy links, those seem to help as well.

this girl really knows what she is talking about!

this seems to be all run of the mill white hat techniques - they work tho