The amount of backlinks to your website greatly helps determine your website’s rankings in the search engine. Additionally, the search engine will determine the topic of your website and its pages based upon the topics of the websites linking to them and the anchor text in those links. Let’s look at some ways to get backlinks.
Make quality content - You can get the most backlinks by making great content. If your website content is great, then other webmasters will link to your website naturally.
Forum Posting and Blog Commenting - When you post on forums or blogs you can leave a link back to your website. Remember, do not spam. Make quality posts and comments, and then people will want to come to your website without you asking.
Submit to Directories - I do not think directories are as useful as they used to be. Search engines are getting better at figuring out that the links are artificial. Nonetheless, you can still easily get links to your website using directories.
What do you think? How do you gain backlinks?