As you can see from the picture, you want to get links from sites that we call "feeder sites." These are sites like the ones shown, or other places like: Guest Posts Article Hosts (ezinearticles) Comments

The key is to then backlink to these feeder sites with weaker links from social bookmarking sites, mass article distributions, and bookmark directories. Now you have a booster to your feeder links.

There is something else you can do - boost existing backlinks to your site.

Chances are you have some natural backlinks your site attracted along the way. Once you find out where they are, send some social bookmarking links to them - you'll save yourself the step of having to build feeder site links.

The Social Media Scene

I just want to mention all the buzz about social media links from Facebook and Twitter.

I have older sites with good content, very few (but good backlinks) and no links from FB or Twitter that rank on the first page of Google. The traffic directly from FB and Twitter haven't proved to be the type that like to click ads, but go ahead and test it out...you might have better luck than others.

Here's some Do's and Dont's I forgot to mention:

Do - get links from different sources and vary your anchor text.

Don't - get a cluster from one place (i.e., 10 articles from ezinearticles). It's a waste after two or three links from the same place (IP). Google will only recognize a couple of links and the rest won't show on their report.

Google is big on natural link accumulation, this is contrary to past practices like - getting as many links, as quickly as possible; this practice will kill your site - don't do it.

It certainly seems that the days of throwing together a niche site, getting a bunch of backlinks to it, and then waiting for all those clicks to come through are over.

Yes, there are still people doing the "made for adsense" business, but from everything I read the cost for keyword research, outsourcing, content creation, and backlinking has gone up - in both time and money.