Please rate the best link building strategies

Here are five rather easy back link strategies. Assumed you have the time or resources to get quality articles written, hub pages content produced, forum profile signatures created and manual directory submissions.

How would you sort following back link techniques by SEO benefits! I know diversification would be best, but I would like to know your preferences.

Paid Links
Forum Signature
Article Directory
Web Directory Submission
Hub Pages creation (Squidoo or Hubpages)

For me the best technique is killer content with social media. For instance you create a great resource article or a tool for your niche and then you submit it to social media sites (that could be anything from twitter to digg)

If your content is cool enough to go viral you will get several links from blogs besides the traffic from the buzz. It is not the easiest way for link building but I am sure it is the best way to kickstart a site.

Nikolas, while I agree this is a great strategy, not all of us are in industries where this will work. I like it. Just doesn't help me. :(

I believe that content & social media is suitable for any industry. Can you give an example of an industry that you can't use this strategy?

So do I think. And I like article submission a lot. If you have good content, you can easily generate traffic and possibly get links. Submitting them to article directories is also helpful. Many directories allow up to 3 deep-links within the content.

this is common think give me some Extra info

You may want to add social media and video marketing.

thanks for given this nice info i try this

there's no  best link building strategies  , all these helps...

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Xomba is another one.

According to me the best link building techniques are
1- link building
2- forums posting
3- Articles submission
4- Social network media and book marking

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In my experience, the cool content gets plagiarised without any back link. The better the comment, the more other people will want to steal credit for it.

For SEO you need links that do follow. Hubpages and Squidoo use the no follow attribute so I'd take them of the list. Article marketing is great. time consuming but very effective. Forum signatures I suppose are okay but a lot of the forums use no follow attribute as well so you need to check which ones are of benefit. Besides  forums are better for getting information and networking than for backlinks for SEO.

For me best link building method is good content, add fresh content once a while and create more no. of good backlinks.

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Neet

If I had to pick only one and only one from the list that you have given, I'd say that I'd stick with creating squidoo lenses. Squidoo lenses are a great way to get one way link and a great way to get traffic as well. They are not that difficult to rank in search engines and from my experience, most of the visitors that comes from my lenses are all targeted.

5- Paid Links
2- Forum Signature
1- Article Directory     
3- Web Directory Submission
4- Hub Pages creation (Squidoo or Hubpages)

Hubpages start as nofollow links though... not really worth your time imho.

I don't think that forum posting is a good method to build some quality links. Article submission is the best method to build some good links for free.

1. Forum Posting
2. Article Submission
3. Paid text links or banner

I would rather rate the below mentioned link building strategies as per my preference >>

Article Directory
Paid Links
Hub Pages creation (Squidoo or Hubpages)
Forum Signature
Web Directory Submission

Press Release are important as well

I have not purchased links and I think it is nor one of the easy ways to get links.