An interesting one, this!

You all know how important getting good backlinks is to a website. And you would be surprised how people get them done. Some of them are the old fashioned way of direct linking through comments, while the others are incredibly cunning and black-hat.

Here is something to ponder and play with if you are still looking for ideas on linking (source: Googlecache).

1. Google.com: get in the directory
2. Adobe.com: followed forum links
3. Blogspot.com: If you cant figure out how to get a link on blogspot, give up now.
4. Yahoo.com: join the directory
5. Youtube.com: Create your own channel
6. Wikipedia.org: Add it, it will be nofollowed, but still worth it.
7. W3.org : Newsletter Auto-Linking
8. Facebook.com: Facebook Apps (check out the retailer icons)
9. Wordpress.org: Write a Good Plugin (Author Homepage)
10. Myspace.com: If you can’t figure out how to get a link on myspace, you need to give up on SEO.
11. Microsoft.com: Service requests
12. Twitter.com: SOL, Everything is nofollowed. IMHO, a useless link.
13. Amazon.com : Amapedia FTW
14. Macromedia.com: Get Mentioned, hard link to get
15. Wordpress.com: Create a Blog, If you can’t figure out how to get a link on wordpress.com, you need to give up on SEO.
16. Flickr.com: Add and Edit a CommentCreate a comment with a link in it like this… <a rel=”follow” href=”http://www.yoursite.com”>text</a>. Flickr will add a nofollow after the HREF, but the rel=”follow” will already have been parsed. Sneaky, eh?
17. StatCounter.com: Member profile Contact Info
18. Miibeian.gov.cn : Good luck
19. Msn.com: Movies Search Results
20. Apple.com: Auto Linking in Mailman Archives
21. BBC.co.uk : Get Written About. Yeah, this one is tough.
22. AOL.com: Propeller cross-domain. Now that is clever!
23. MapQuest.com : Map Listings
24. Sourceforge.net: Forum Profile Pages
25. NYtimes.com: It never ceases to amaze me what spammers can find.
26. Feedburner.com: Feed Links Count.
27. CNN.com: Create a Fan Nation Blog
28. Free.fr: Create a Site
29. Tripod.com: If you don’t know how to get a link from tripod, you need to give up on SEO.
30. Live.com: Create a blog on Windows Live Spaces
31. Go.com: Create a Sports Nation Fan Blog
32. Addthis.com: Only nofollows from forum links.
33. Typepad.com: Create a Blog
34. PHPbb.com: Signature Links
35. Digg.com: Go Popular. Write fantastic content and get on the homepage of Digg to get PR flowing links.
36. technorati.com: Site Reactions Pages and others
37. del.icio.us (now delicious.com): Get mentioned on the blog
38. php.net: Become a Mirror
39. imdb.com: make a movie or documentary
40. about.com: followed links in the forums
41. ebay.com: user pages have followed links
42. rambler.ru: forum links followed
43. blogger.com: Get into the “Blogs I follow”
44. fc2.com: Blog
45. joomla.org: followed links in the forum
46. google.de: Directory
47. creativecommons.org: Try installing ccHost and mentioning your installation
48. Mysql.com: Forge Comments

If you want more, SEOMoz has provided a list of Top 500 Linked Domains all over the Internet according to Linkscape’s index.

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