Build links. Build links. Build Links. I had to say that 3 times because it is the most important factor of getting your website ranked. Effective link building is essential. When your website receives an incoming link from another, it shows how important your website is according to the search engines.

You need to rank for your keyword in your chosen niches. Period. Long term traffic is the goal when you go all out and build your links. Here is one effective way you can do to start building links back to your website. No. It is a must do!

Writing articles and submitting them. I’ve said before and I’m saying it again and will keep mentioning it again. If you have not started writing articles and submitting them to article directories, you are losing it big time. When you write articles, you get to leave a link back to your website in the author’s resource box. Make that 3 links. Not only that, you are also allowed to place a keyword anchored link that you wish to rank for.

Of course, don’t just write any article. Write something legible, understandable and most importantly informative. If you are stuck for ideas, read about how to get ideas for writing articles.

Thousands of article publishers also pull these quality articles from the article directories and fill them on their websites. What you get is another backlink to your website. Do not worry about all this talk about the duplicate content penalty you keep hearing about. A link is a link is a link! So how do you mass submit to many article directories all at once? Either you use an article submission service or you pay for software to help you. Personally, I have used a few and recommend Article Submitter. It’s free to download and you only upgrade if you’d go for the Gold or Platinum versions.

Now go get your links done! 1 article a day and you’ll have 365 articles in a year and what if you do 5 articles a day or even 10 or more? Think about it.