How to obtain backlinks

Getting backlinks depends on many factors about your page on which you have control. And it is essential for receiving visitors and improving your score with the search engines.

Links from directories do not bring anything except a few of them. It is essential that the backlinks are on pages of same topic as your website, and the anchors are not the repetition of the same group of keywords. Over-optimization is now penalized by the algorithms of search engines.

Content which bring links naturally (but celebs)

Design of the site

Show you are an expert

Promoting

Take part in sites of news

Collaborative sites

Contribute with scripts

Exchanges

The hunt to broken links

Make a blog (for a commercial website)

Select the sources of backlinks

Whatever the nature of the sites from which we hope links, digg-like, partner, another blog, etc. avoid sites that have unfair practices :

To see which sites provide links and which do not provide, see at the Links entry in Google Webmaster Tools.

List of directories