It’s easy to get backlinks not that these methods are one click and submit to thousands of websites. No, it’s because your goal is to get those 30 backlinks a day approximately.

Search engines look more into your link building pattern rather than how much links you have got today. Getting a thousand links today will do you little good if you don’t get anything for like a week.

It may actually look spammy if you over do it. So use these free methods if you don’t want to opt for paid methods. These are the best of the best.

1) Forum Posting.

This is simple finding forums related to your website, in your niche and then joining, make sure they allow signatures and post a reply.

One of the top ways for one way links.

2) Article Submission.

Submit to top article directories. I won’t suggest you spend all that time to submit to other article directories as well manually. Instead use that time for forum posting. Spend time wisely therefore.

Probably the best way to get one way links because you get quality and quantity. Quantity because most webmasters that like your articles will put them on their websites and that gives you MORE backlinks.

3) Link Exchanges.

There are many link exchange services like membership sites where you join, and exchange links with other members. There are a lot of these membership sites and you can easily get many link exchanges this way. Adding a submission form on your link exchange directory will get you even more links. Get some free script to do this. There are many websites online that have a collection of free scripts.

The form is like a contact us form, but with some extra fields.

This is in the list of best free ways because you can get a LOT of links this way to improve the quantity of links you have.

4) Story Sites

The thing with this is that you should not get too many links from the same domain. That’s quite useless, spend time better. If you find a story site, which accepts news stories and so on, then try to find related stories sites using Google. Find other sites like it for submission. To story sites you can submit an article you have on your website or blog.

There are many story sites, when you find one type the url in Google search box and click Search. Then next to the domain in search result click on Similar sites and you see a list of potential related sites.

Ok, there you go, you should conquer some keywords with those free methods alone, without spending a dime. Assuming you have done keyword research properly so you know how to use them in anchor text.

You have both quality and quantity with those methods. Don’t try to get as many links as you can in a single day. You end up getting too many links which is not bad, but you’ll probably won’t do it over and over again, that’s the bad thing - your linking patter won’t look good.

So your new website first thing is start getting backlinks… and 5% of the time left do some onpage optimization on it, like meta tags and alt tags. But the 95% of your time start link building.

There’s something with age of the links in Google algorithms. Which basically mean when you get a backlink the older it gets, means the more time passes the better it’s value. So in essence the older your website gets the better your backlinks become. Google will give them more value, you get more rewarded so to speak for those backlinks.

Doing link building from the start is how you get indexed rapidly. Most think of indexing a website as a stage in the process. I think it’s not. Just get the best links as fast as you can, that’s an advantage over others that do not. The best links are submission to the top paid directories, you want to do it fast because of the linking age I’ve mentioned.

In no time if you start on link building your website gets indexed and starts to rank. Obviously you should know keywords you’re targeted first and foremost, keyword research comes always first.

But then you keep the rythm of 95% of your time on link building and 5% on onpage optimization like adding content. That’s how you get the ranks. It’s not checking if you got indexed everyday, checking ranks everyday, checking pagerank none of that stuff means squat.

What you really need is this system of link building and taking action on it, applying it. Now there are many ways to get links, but the idea here is the system you need to have in mind to get things moving on. Or you will get stuck in useless and meaningless things like why you did not get indexed yet. That’s time wasted.

Most often if you’re worrying about that, you either did not really learn seo well or you don’t know or have a system to follow to get ranks. Once you know the system, you can create a brand new website and boom you instantly know step by step what to do.

In fact it’s so powerful knowing the system that you can do no seo, outsourcing completely everything. Just tell employees what to do and how to do it. That’s it. This constant worrying on seo why your pagerank is 3 not 4 and so forth should be banned if you want to progress forward rapidly.

There are many seo techniques you should apply, many different strategies to adopt for keyword research most of all. But your goal once you know how to do and how to do it, is to focus on link building.

That’s not news, but still you need to master a bit seo, gain the knowledge first otherwise even link building alone is not going to help you, if you do it wrong.

So you have to do things right but do the right things. Purchase a book or something to learn, you won’t really learn from forums, you just get a tip here and there. Truth be told even on forums specialized about seo you won’t find everything right, you may find false information and theories. SEO masters are not on forums, they’re enjoying the high quality traffic.

As long as you’re not in a paid forum or membership site, that’s another story, but free forums, even if they are the most popular. They’re still abundant with newbies. So that’s not the right place to learn.

Forums are more for discussions than for learning. One other mistake is thinking that to get high rankings you just need to buy a software - or get indexed - or add related content. Means, you just believe in a blue moon.

That’s not the right approach, probably whatever it is you’re trying to do, like playing golf. You think you can beat the professionals without a coach? Think again.

Planning is very important and using mind maps to plan. What you want from your website? Why you wish to do seo? If you want to do seo for traffic that’s not a good reason at all. You need to know also what you’re going to do with the traffic, which are real humans remember. A plan of getting traffic, converting and using it to get results, your bottom line making money.

So jump from trying to make money by playing the lottery, to serious thinking, planning and knowing what you’re going to achieve. Not just shooting without aiming, you’ll get more results and faster while avoiding silly mistakes. Planning itself, while you’re doing it, especially with mind maps you can pin point what it is you can do better, or you can avoid…

So take search engine optimization as one point on the map that you have to follow to get results. This is simple stuff, it can tell you why optimizing for the keyword food is wrong! Why optimizing for the keyword cars is wrong! Why starting seo later not now is wrong! And other simple things like these that can make big differences.

Little things added together will have a big impact. Thousands of ants can turn your kitchen in a nightmare, while one will not been seen at all.

So for onpage optimization techniques to have effect you need to apply as many of them as possible. Easy and simple techniques, one of them is about file names of your website pages and also your images. Two good ways are to name the file something related to the webpage or the picture if it’s a picture file.

Think of your visitors, what filename will make their life easier. If it’s an apple image, apple dot html is better than imageone dot html. Same thing for filenames of website pages. If the page has an article about cat owners, than name it cat-owners dot html or whatever your file extension is, maybe php or htm or asp. But cat-owners is the tip here. Use also punctuation symbol - to seperate words instead of using the word and, and it’s better than the other symbol _.

One way to look at how your website filenames and folders and structuring is, is by connecting via ftp to your website. You will see in the root folder all your main folders. Is it confusing as hell? You should figure out what your site is about by reading the folder names and the filenames you have. It should be that easy, and it’s also very easy to do this simple change.

Please do not go editing your folder and filenames, it will result in tons of 404 page not found. You can though rename and use a permanent redirection. Not normal redirection, permanent, 301 redirect. Or it will be a bigger problem.

These let’s call them mistakes occur because you try to create a website for your entertainment which is fine. But always think of the real people that’s going to visit your website. If you do that, you can figure out many of these onpage optimization techniques quickly assuming you have a good knowledge of websites.

The other one about filenames is avoiding using characters in the filenames like the question mark symbol, exclamation or other characters sometimes generated automatically when using certain web design functions, which I’m not an expert in.

Too long of filenames is not bad but keep it moderate, I mean ask the question yourself, what would you think if you just saw the filename you have? Some filename are like sentences. Blogger blogs automatically generate quite a bit long of filenames, but that size is appropriate. Note also the use of - symbol to separate words. Now blogger is owned by Google, and optimized for the search engines. That should lit a bulb for you. If Google is doing for their website, in this case Blogger, than it should be something quite good.

If you are doing article submission using same articles you’ve posted on your website here’s what I found out to work best.

First of all you can write articles and put them on your website. Then do not submit them to directories the same day. Submit the next day. Plus if you put them on a blog ping the blog. Here’s a little known secret, ping also the page your article is on. You can ping pages, not just a blog. A blog consists of pages as well. Pinging tells spiders to come visit the page because there’s something new on it.

You want spiders to see the article on your website first, not on article directories first. So it’s sort of becomes your property.

If you post it in article directories same day, spiders see the same article on several sites - they simple choose who they think the real owner of article is, and that page will get the most benefit.

So you want to be known as the real owner, so wait a day and ping blog if you placed it on a blog. If not a blog make sure you still wait a day before submission and make also sure your site structuring is well. So it should be easy to navigate from homepage to the page your article is on.

Not saying link to page from homepage, but if it’s an article create a folder called articles and link to it from homepage or some prominent page and put on that page links to your articles. Make it easy, and to get this right put yourself in the shoes of your visitor. How does it feel navigating your website. If it’s feels good spiders will find it good too 99 percent of the time, if it’s bad means confusing for example than spiders too will get a bit confused.

So this is how to make sure your blog posts or articles pages get indexed and sometimes very fast. Avoid allowing spiders to see your article as a copy, let them see your article first. This will eliminate the chance of your page taking longer to get indexed. I also always link back from bio of articles to the site I’ve have my article on. So the article directories give credit to my website, the site where the original article is on. That spiders see my article is the original copy and the article directories as sites recommending my article.

If article directories do not link back to your website, they are not giving credit to the original article. Sometimes it hurts them for duplicate content, because it’s stealing content without giving credit to the appropriate site.