Most webmasters know they need to get backlinks in order to drive up PageRank and increase their rankings. Link building can be a very laborious task and a frustrating one if it isn’t done properly. There are several effective ways you get backlinks that work at raising your rankings and overall link juice for your site.

Publishing articles to article directories has to be my favorite way of getting backlinks. The reason why I like this method so much is because you get backlinks, direct traffic and even some direct sales from article marketing. One extra step most webmasters fail to do with their article marketing is to obtain links for those as well.

Submitting RSS feeds to RSS aggregator sites is a good way to get deep backlinks to your sites’ pages. If you automate your RSS submissions, then you can get fantastic high quality backlinks from RSS aggregators. Many people think that RSS feeds are just for blogs, and this is incorrect. You can create RSS feeds for any type of site and get unlimited backlinks using RSS submissions.

Social bookmarking can increase the manual traffic and overall link juice to your site. However, Most social bookmarking sites have switched over to a NoFollow format so these types of links are becoming less and less effective, but still hold some value. The process of obtaining your social bookmarking backlinks can be automated too.

With WordPress technology allowing for remote publication to blog, blog networks have become a very popular method for building backlinks. The way this work sis articles are posted on other blogs in a network, preferably to targeted and relevant categories using the remote access technology for WordPress. The one issue that have come up is many of these blog networks have turned into link farms filled with junk donor blog sites that have little to no link juice.