Gaining inbound links for greater traffic

As more and more search engines have started to lay emphasis on content rather than code, importance of inbound links is more vital than ever.

Buying links is not done any more; as for one the ruling prices for the links are too high and for second; with Google ignoring these links for rating the site and other engines likely to follow suit, these links may soon lose its relevance.

Other than buying the links; some common and yet effective methods for getting inbound links are:

1. Leaving comments on Blogs
Making a community of the sorts does help. Do leave comments on good posts on other people’s blogs. Be sure to productively interact with those bloggers, even if the blog is of your competitor’s. It makes them feel good. It validates what they're writing about. It starts up a relationship between the two of you while you too get inbound link as a bonus.

2. Paid Reviews on other sites
You can ask for meaning ful paid reviews of your site(don’t forget to include some inner pages as well) for reputed publishers who write well. I am not suggesting some run of the mill writers who just write any thing for given number of words without actually adding any value for the reader. Don’t shy away form constructive criticism as that would help you learn from your mistakes and shortcomings.

3. Participate in Industry Forums
Participating in forums pertaining to your industry helps you in many ways. It gives you a chance to you’re your hold you’re the subject and helps you build a loyal visitor base besides getting you hooked up with other like-minded professionals. It also helps you understand the psyche of a common man as to how he perceives an issue besides keeping you abreast of current trends. Of course, you do get to build your inbound links in the signature line of your posts.

4. Build Pages on social networking sites
Some new social networking sites on the web allow you to create content and post it in their domain as new pages. One great example of this is Squidoo.com. By creating "lenses" that focus readers on a particular topic of interest, you get to engage readers and create more inbound links to your main site.

5. Wikis
The concept of a wiki is that readers also become content contributors. Anyone who is registered can log in and change content. Understand that other readers of this information-rich content have zero tolerance for sales/advertising tactics, so, be careful with this one. Be purely informative and helpful with your newly posted content. If the content survives peer scrutiny, you'll have a nice little inbound link that's potentially seen by millions.

6. Social Networking
MySpace and FaceBook for sure, but there's an explosion of social networking web sites out there. Dive in and start participating. Doing so allows you to interact with other professionals and, you guessed it, builds up inbound links.

8. Social Bookmarking
Different than social networking, social bookmarking is similar to how you used to bookmark sites in your browser but, instead, you bookmark your favorite sites publicly, in sites like de.licio.us, ma.gnolia.com, spurl.com, rojo.com, Google bookmarks ... the list goes on and on. The goal is to have people discover these bookmarks, and then your site. An added benefit to social bookmarking (and blog posts) is you get to "tag" your content with words and phrases that are relevant to the content. These tags are used to identify the content in the search process.

9. Organized Surfing Sites
This is a variation of social bookmarking. There are sites that organize how people surf the web in an effort to make the process of finding the right content faster and more focused. StumbleUpon.com and digg.com are the leading ones

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