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When we were building links we would go straight to websites that are ALREADY linking out to great content in our niche and ask them to consider our content for a link.  When we found sites like that we would build better content than they were already linking to. We no longer do linkbuilding.  Instead we spend all of our time on content creation and our visitors on their own submit our content to sites like stumbleupon, slashdot and reddit and that exposure creates links with no effort from us. IF you can create linkable content you can eliminate the work of linkbuilding.  Progress that way is slow at first but after your traffic starts growing it works exceptionally well.

Concentrate on getting some unique and high quality content into your site rather than link building at this stage - remember even with link building, you need content for other website owners to want to link back to. Otherwise, the best you can expect are a few non-target website links or no-follow blog posts. Combat the content first Andy

Thanks! I've checked their website and I saw that they only work with long-term projects, rather than this kind of short-term things. Should I try to contact them anyways?

You may be better off sending that link juice to your own pages rather then to the blogs, seeing that they may not link back to you with a do-follow link. what would make someone link to your page, the fact that you have a link to them? or that you speak highly of them. why not just do article on the blogs with no links, if you speak highly of them they will more then likly link to you. PS this would create 1 way links rather than 2 way

Or they could allow one, totally non-spammy sig link once you get to a certain point... i.e. 10,000 moz points or something. I doubt spammers would hang around that long to get a link

lol, well... there's about a million and one reasons that could be But I'd hazard a guess as the main reasons being the same keyword phrase spread though-out the site including in title tags, and the whacking great ad banner at the top of every page as soon as it loads Get rid of the ad or move it, and focus on different keywords for different pages

I appreciate the response, but i was looking for more than a general reply. That's why is was asking for sources. I want a good professional strategy, not a list of things found on other pages of this site. Anyone want to share their answers to the above items. It would be appreciated.

Unless it's spun content

That would be my guess too. That is strange...

Mass comments on blogs is a spam technique- big time. Although, blog commenting should not be a SEO exercise- SEO is an added benefit of it. It should be more of an engagement activity than anything else.

Have you considered hiring a contractor? If you're in a position where you can't afford to hire more staff but can afford to spend a bit, I would suggest hiring a freelancer to increase the number of hours spent monthly. If you can't do this, you are really limited to Daniels suggestions (minus the blog comments bit) and possibly some generic press release and article work - keep it clean and unspammy.

Raven has a great tool for tracking links and link building. They even have a monitoring of links once you have acquired them. The monitor will give you updates on if the link changes. Great tool.

No problem, let me know if you have any more questions. -Alex

The widget is a great idea that has been discussed, the only issue is that we will be using coldfusion to power the functionality.

I would prefer the DVD's. But Renea said she will let me know, so thanks for all your responses.

Understanding business they link build for (CRITICAL!) Search skills (advanced search operators, semantic flow) Use of our internal link management database (recording, categorising and tagging links) Content writing / ordering Establishment of a real internet persona Natural email writing Phone skills

Are they paid directories? If so, probably not worth it. There are very few directories out there worth paying for. So many free ones you can get decent links from, just worry about those. Only pay for a directory if you think it can actually bring you quality traffic. Never pay for perceived link value as it's usually very low anyway.