As all website owners know, the more sites linking to yours, the higher your search engine rankings will be. What everyone may not know is that there are many ways to get links.

These ten activities frequently produce excellent results.

1. Either submit your site to directories or hire a service to do so (it is quite inexpensive). Concentrate on the directories in your niche and directories with Google PR of 4 and above.

2. Submit your site to online classified ad pages. Most are either free or very inexpensive.

3. Exchanges links with other webmasters. Target sites in your niche with good Google PR. Be sure to avoid “link farms”.

4. Podcast. You really need not be a techie to do it.

5. Make a few simple videos and submit them.

6. Register at social bookmarking and other social sites.

7. Issue press releases. A quick search will yield lots of advice on how to do it, and services and software that can help. It is much easier than it sounds.

8. Start blogging and link from your blog to your website (and vice versa).

9. Do some article writing, and distribute your articles to article distribution sites. There are lots of services and sotware tools to help automate the process. This is the single fastest single way to obtain lots of links. Can’t write? Do a search for “article writers”.

10. Make appropriate comments on blog sites and forums. Note the word “appropriate”.

If you are not already engaged in all of these activities, try at least a few new ones; the more the merrier. Soon you’ll be in position to judge which activities have the greatest payoff for the time you spend on them. At that point you are in great shape.