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You can't really be serious about getting massive free traffic from the search engines if you do NOT appear on the first page of search results. And how do you rank high for your chosen keywords?

You can't really be serious about getting massive free traffic from the search engines if you do NOT appear on the first page of search results. And how do you rank high for your chosen keywords?

There are many things you have to do like ensuring you have the right density of keywords on your page, having your keywords in your meta description tag, title, images and so on. However, of all known steps to high ranking, building your link popularity is the most important. Here are tops ways to get high quality links...

1. Write and submit high quality articles to article directories. This is certainly the most cost effective way of building link popularity.

Why I personally use article marketing as my preferred way of building links is that I have total control on how the links to my site are formatted. With this level of control, I can decide and affect which key phrases I rank for.

Don't just submit one article to one directory and think you're done. Keep submitting articles at least once a week to as many article sites as you can find.

Bear in mind that you need to ensure you use the right tools and strategy if you want to get the most from this. For example, you need to ensure that each instance of your article on each article directory is unique. There are tools and services that take care of this and your article submissions.

2. You can start blogs that are related in theme to your main site. Since your blogs are different webpages from your main site, links from them will help you increase your main site's link popularity.

Lack of money is certainly NOT an excuse to postpone starting your own blog. You only need to have what you want to say. Just make sure it's some useful and relevant to your theme. You can start within a few minutes for free at either blogger.com or wordpress.com.

Another way of building your link popularity with blogs is by making useful comments on blogs that have a high page rank and then linking back to your site. Just make sure you comment on blogs that do NOT use the "no follow" tag.

3. Make sure you bookmark your articles on sites like digg.com and del.icio.us. Also give your visitors the opportunity of bookmarking your articles. These are quality links to your site.

The other advantage of social bookmarking is the leverage you can get. If you have great content some of your visitors will bookmark your articles. People who check their bookmarks will also visit your pages and some will add you to their own bookmarks. This helps you enlist others to do your link building for you.

4. Submit your site to web directories. Some will review your site for free and include you if you meet their standards. Others will charge a fee.

If you must submit your site to only one directory, then make it Dmoz.org. A link from this site is worth a lot. However, you'll do yourself much good by submitting to as many web directories as will give you a rank boost (And they are many).

You'll get a bigger rank boost from the established and respected directories. But that said, links from good niche directories will also give you links that will add up in your favor.

There are services and software that will help you submit your site to many directories. Depending on the demand on your time, this may be a very viable option.

5. Most forums allow you to link back to your site. So look for high PR forums and post helpful comments. Spamming is NOT a viable strategy as it will hurt you on the long run.

There are a few other ways to get quality links. But you can be sure of one thing: You'll soon start seeing massive traffic to your site if you commit to the methods discussed in this article.