I have been building websites for about 10 years on and off, but have been working hard in this field for the past 2 years. I have built 10 fairly good sites for myself and some for local small businesses. I have tried lots of methods of getting links, forum posts, blogs, blog comments, buying links, posting articles and link exchanges with other relevant sites. None of these seem to last very long and after a short time the links seem to go off the search engines radar and I end up back at square one.
I see other sites with 1000’s of links pointing to them, yet I struggle to get into double figures. At times, I have spent weeks at a time, creating accounts in forums, article sites etc, tweaking the web pages for the keywords but just seem to be hitting my head against a brick wall.

I have spent night after night reading through sites like this picking up advice, techniques and new sites which may help. I have adopted only white hat techniques to date and never had my sites de-ranked.

I appreciate there must be a lot of work involved in building up a good link structure for a site, but at the rate I’m going, I’ll be an old man before I’ve got 100 links pointing to my sites.

I really would appreciate some help, please...

MOGmartin,

Many thanks for your reply. Your advice is very useful. I will work on something to give away as I agree this will probably help a great deal.

All the best,

Kimpton