Inbound links upon their quality/relevancy/quantity still the main factor that control you site’s ranking with search engines, hover link building is the nastiest job in the seo process, it time/money consumer, you can spend as much as you want of time/money and still no guarantees for the results.Assuming you are new for the web and you still in the faze of investing your money on the web, you are building new websites to monetize or to promote your business, and you don’t want spend extra money on your link building campaign, here is some ways to do effective link building with zero money spending:

1- Assuming you do know about the business you are running, so you can write useful article about it, well then write 400+ word articles and go syndicate it on www.ezinearticles.com .. don’t waste time to syndicate it on hundreds of articles websites, you don’t need more links from duplicated document, besides many websites use www.ezinearticles.com content, so you will get your article distributed on hundred of websites just when you syndicate it on www.ezinearticles.com , take use of the contextual linking possibility and use some keyword in the third part of your article to link to your website. To check how many people publish your article on their website search Google for the exact title of your article (use “article title”), do that 10 days after www.ezinearticles.com approve your article.

2- Forums threads/signature, almost for any niche you will find a popular forum, in forums you can post links in your thread, you can also use your signature to include link to your website, relevant forum is good source for inbound links, just remember to be useful in your contributions not spammy.

3- Free directories, they still have some value, have a list of quality ones and start submitting your website, you can take use of some offers on forums to people offer free directory listing for free with a high approving rate such as the announcement category in Digital Point Forum

4- Links exchange, it has not died yet as many people telling, just be selective, mind the quality and relevancy and you will find good benefits in terms of traffic/ranking.

5- Ask for link (link begging), to do this you really have to have good content on your website this many webmasters on the web might be willing to link to it cause it really add value to their website, if your content is super good most likely you will get the links without asking for them, if they are just good it doesn’t harm to ask some webmasters to link to you, just remember to be polite, don’t use canned messages and finally don’t spam them.

If you do the five previous techniques on continues basis you will definitely witness an improvement in your ranking/traffic and the will work for you for competitive keywords not just for low competition ones (I hope you are not trying those techniques for terms like “car insurance” where nothing will help but spending hundred of thousands buying links)