Ok, so by now you have heard that the best way to generate better rankings on many search engines is to get more relevant web sites to link to your web site. This is all well and good, but how do you do that? The following posting is meant as a basic list of techniques that can be used to start the process.

1. Article, Articles, and Articles: It has been said more times than I can count that content in king. Ok, so how do you take advantage of this tid-bit of wisdom. Write compelling articles and upload them to article directories. If you write a good piece others will want to add the content to their site and give you a link back as the author.

2. Add a blog to your web and post your articles

3. Post comments to other blogs and forums which allow you to have a link to your web site in your signature.

4. Have a software engineer build a very useful web-based tool that can only be accessed on your web site. Others will link to such a page with the tool. Also consider having an add on tool to a web site which can be downloaded, but that has a link back to your site.

5. Submit to the most popular directories. There are only about 10 of these with any SEO benefit.

6. Just ask your suppliers and customers if they would link to your web site.