Link building is the process of getting links to your website from other sites, especially high traffic, industry specific sites.  Getting links to your web site used to be an easy task, just get as many incoming links to your site as possible, quality and nature or the links was unimportant.  Then link relevance came along; search engines now take into account the quality and relevance of your site’s incoming links.  This makes the process of link building a much more complicated program.  With all of the other tasks that business owners have, link building may not be high on the priority list.  It may be best to hire a professional Internet marketing firm to help.

In terms of designing or developing a website or a blog, majority of the site owners appear to be grasping the concept pretty quick and end up doing a grand job over time. What majority of the webmasters find challenging, especially money making webmasters that are focused on making money from their sites, is the off-page optimization or the promotion part.

1. Directory Submission: Directory submission is known to be a proven method of link building for some time now. What you need to do is to find a lot of online link directories that accept free URL submissions and submit your site there. All the directories are usually organized by categories so you need to submit under the category that best suits your site and theme.
2. Article Submission: There are thousands of free article directories out there that accept free submissions. You can write an article related to the theme of your site and submit to few of the top article directories with your anchor text link in the resource box to get backlinks.
3. Social Bookmarking: How many social bookmarking sites out there as of this date is anyone’s guess but the point is that, you can bookmark your site or story pages on these social bookmarking sites for backlinks easily.
4. RSS Submission: If you have a blog or site with RSS Feed setup, then there are hundreds of RSS directories and ping sites where you can submit your feed for backlinks.
5. Social Media Pages: There are lot of social media sites, Squidoo and HubPages for example, that accept user generated content. You can publish your own articles on those sites and use the anchor text to link to your main site.

If you really want people to want to visit your site and pay any interest at all to what you have, you need to sell them with content. The content on your web site is keeps people interested as well as coming back. Generating web site traffic is mainly about visitors and buyers. Without these people you are only entertaining yourself and losing money in most cases. Content can be in the form of blogs or articles that discuss subjects pertaining to what you are offering. Offer your potential buyer answers to their questions, information they did not know, and ways to get what they are looking for and they will continue to come back time and time again.

If you are looking for a fast way for generating web site traffic to your site, add a forum. Forums offer a place for consumers, hobbyists, and potential buyers to go to get and share information with one another. The can post questions, give answers, and offer a support to each other. Forums attract people fast as most people like to discuss their own personal experience and know how on any subject. The more people post, the higher your ranking gets. It is very simple to attach a forum to any web site.

It is easy to submit to social bookmarks. You will get instant backlinks after you submit. There are also a lot of bookmarking sites with very high PageRank. To this end it will help a lot when it comes to the search ranking. You can use some semi-auto scripts to submit the social bookmark sites so that you can save some time.

One of the best techniques to get traffic to your site is to post in free classified ad sites. These sites offer double benefits. Users of these sites and search engines will both find you faster. The best part about these free sites is that you can post multiple ads and have them up for an extended period of time.