Free one way links are music to an SEO’s ear. SEOs already understand these days it often takes cash to obtain good one way links. However, there are sites where you can get free non-reciprocal links. Here are five of those sites.

Ezine Articles

I love Ezine Articles. The managers of Ezine Articles work hard to drive traffic to their site. Ezine Articles has a PR6, so your links will count for something. It’s hard to beat free traffic and backlinks. Not only that, you get to choose your anchor text.

All you have to do is write an short article. Ezine Articles will publish it as long as it’s a quality, non-promotional article of at least 250 words. I’m sure you can cook up a 250 word article in less than an hour.

For each article, you can write a resource box about your site including backlinks. The resource box is placed at the end of your article. If you do keyword research for your article and target one long-tail phrase, you’ll get even more traffic because Ezine Articles ranks for many long-tail search terms.

Craigslist

Craigslist is a free classified ads site. It drives a massive amount of traffic and has great link popularity with a PR8. The thing to keep in mind with Craigslist is not to spam. Make sure you have something worth posting. Here are some things that would work for Craigslist. Post ads about job offers, your products and services, or a contest on your site.

Forums

Forums are great places to get backlinks that drive targeted traffic. With the global scope of the internet, most niches today have an active forum. You just have to do some searching to find it.

You can start looking for forums in your niche by doing a search with your niche target keywords and the term +forum. For example, if you’re in the cell phone industry, search with this keyword phrase, cell phone +forum.

Make sure you find a forum that allows links in the signature. There are some forums that even allow you to promote about your website. Also, since a forum is a community, become an active forum member and you’ll get more clicks to your site.

Squidoo

Squidoo used rank for many long-tail phrases, but it looks like Google has penalized Squidoo. Some of my lenses (that’s what Squidoo calls its user-generated webpages) that used to be in the top 20 have dropped out of the top 100.  However, Squidoo is still a great place to get backlinks, because Squidoo has a PR6. Keep in mind that your lens must have at least 4 modules to be published.

Netscape

With a PR 9, Netscape has the best PR out of all the social networking sites. Like forums, it’s a good idea to participate in the Netscape community.  Vote on other people’s stories. Submit other stories, not just your own.  As you participate in the community, other Netscape users will vote for your submissions.  This gives you more backlinks since your story will show up on other user profile pages.

If you research the Netscape tags, you can find tag pages with PR3 or more. You only get 5 tags per submission, so use them wisely.

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