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One of the main factors of ranking high in the search engines is having other websites pointing or linking to yours. One of the most repeatedly asked questions on everyone mind is backlinks with high Page Rank (PR 6-9). So how or where do I get them?

Cbox Links - A tag board software that bloggers and website owners can add to their website. It works much like the Wordpress comments part. It’s a simple shout box type script that you can throw a few links onto. Google query to find an updated list of sites running this vulnerable software: allintext: [get a cbox]

Two Quick free links - Two simple ones that you have probably seen around a lot when your searching for sites is the aboutus.org and the wiki directory. These can just be thrown up in about 1 minute flat and make sure in the wiki directory you add some related categories for better potential. They should get you indexed really fast.

Unlimited free .edu and .gov links - Another great potential is edu and gov links as Google and others give authority over these types of domain extensions.

The ’site:’ feature in Google allows only results with that domain name or domain extension to show up. You can “hack” this feature to allow Google to find the most relevant university and government websites related to your sites.

Here are a few examples.

Google query: site:.gov blog [or site:.edu blog]

Results in: Google finds any .gov website that is running a blog or has a /blog/ directory. You can then visit these blogs and post comments (if you can find wordpress blogs like this one), and get hundreds of free .gov backlinks.

[Alternative queries: ‘blog’ ‘blogs’ ‘wordpress’ ‘comment’ ‘guestbook’ ‘2007' ‘2006']

Google query: site:.edu *your niche* + blog

For example: site:.edu internet marketing blog

The top result is an .edu blog that links to a non edu blog, but that blog is related and is PR3 and has edu backlinks. That is also a great relevant place to comment, even if it is not directly an .edu. On the other hand, the third result was a PR3 highly related .edu internet marketing blog with zero comments. That is easy .edu backlinks!

You can easily replicate these queries to fit your needs, and it is highly scalable. You can find .edu, .gov, and if you are lucky, .mil blogs. If you are not picky, you can just search specifically for the blogs without the .edu or .gov extension. There you can find some high pageranked blogs on the first pages of results. Play around with it, enjoy it, it’s free! Then of course you know how to drop a link on the comments.

Edu Guest books - Guest books too can be quite good for dropping backlinks and if you want a few edu ones with good PR here is a small list below. I’ll not go into detail on how to add your link as I’m sure you will all know already but anyway here is the links.

PR5

http://lsa.colorado.edu/guestbook-add.html

http://www.campusrec.neu.edu/partsea…guestbook.html

PR4

http://www.studentorg.umd.edu/phibet…/guestbook.php

http://nsa.union.rpi.edu/Guest/nsagb.php

PR3

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~bethanyt/guestbook.html

http://www.uaf.edu/webauthors/wagb.html

PR2

http://cratel.wichita.edu/guestbook/…hp?action=view

These are just a few. Just remember the trick I taught before this on searching Google queries for edu links only you can use the + guestbook or whatever name is of a script you know of like v Bulletin.

Tagbox Link dropping – Similar to Cbox is Tagbox it works the exact same way.

Powered by Tagbox

Contests - Contests are a good way of word of mouth or bloggers blogging about it. Another good example is a giveaway event. Use a link trading script to see which person sends the most referrer and reward him accordingly.

Digging - Digging brings an incredible amount of backlinks and gets the buzz around fast. You can use things like Piqq, which is a digg exchange.

Digg Comments - Digg comments can get you a few links and the latest comment is always usually at the top. So it’s an idea maybe to post on the popular diggs.

Comment hunt - Most of you already know this but comment hunt searches blogs without nofollow tags. It’s a search engine type thing you can search for relevant blogs. The url is http://www.commenthunt.com

Oggix.com – here is another shoutbox type way of backlinks. Check this query and get dumping links.

Digitalpoint CO-Op Network - Another one that can work in some cases.

A few years ago the giant forum we know today as Digitalpoint developed a mass link exchange program called the DP Co-op Advertising Network (aff). After signing up, you then add 3-5 links on every one of your pages, and this earns you more linking power (coop weight). The more weight you have, the more links to your site you receive from other members in the coop. You can choose up to 15 anchor texts and there are over 30,000,000 available links in the network today. Sites have been using it to rank #1 for “Debt”, “credit cards”, “bankruptcy” and “loans.” Such a simple method is allowing them to outrank massive authority sites like Wikipedia, but the main concern is how long will this gravy train last and when will Google do something about it?

Google staff already knows about the network, but have not yet done anything to prevent people from quickly ranking for popular terms. I just want to clarify that I would NOT recommend this technique to anyone that is going to be doing a long term link building campaign for their blogs, but I would recommend it for “made for adsense” sites, and even blackhat/greyhat temporary high profit earning sites.

Flickr Spamming - Flickr allows comments on photos taken by other people, now you can go wild and mass comment but I wouldn’t recommend it. Instead pick suitable pics about your niche and simply write a comment saying something smart like can I use this picture on my blog here, then drop your link, or go wild and do it anywhere.

Article Submission - If you have a product that’s going to be released or a new site, its best to get the word around fast. Use something like Article Equaliser or something that mass submits to a ton of article directories. This builds fast backlinks but sometimes takes time to get approved, and its best not using spammy type articles. Write interesting ones that always work best. And you’ll find that a lot of other sites scrape article sites for there own content. Giving even more backlinks.

Using Software - You can also use software like Internet Business Promoter. I prefer version 8, because it scans the engines for you, and gets links using keywords, do semi-automatically fill link submission forms to niche related directories. It works well and although is a slow process works perfectly.

Hope you enjoy and take action. The above info is provided by Collin LaHay. You can get more info at his site.