The best method to generate free traffic for your website is to get it ranked high on the SERP of Google, Yahoo and MSN. How to do it?

By building quality one way backlinks to your website, you can get your site ranked high on Google, Yahoo and MSN. There are many methods to build quality backlinks to your webpages that are available to you.

There are link exchanges. Dont use them. Reciprocal links dont have much value with the search engines. Only one way back links count.

Some webmasters try to use software that can bookmark their webpages on the social bookmarking sites like propeller, spurl, mixx, digg etc. These social bookmarking sites have high Page Rank (PR) of 6, 7 and 8. So these backlinks may have some value with the search engines.

The only problem with these bookmarking links in that it falls into the area of black hat SEO. Try to avoid it. Your site may get banned on Google and other search engines.

The best method to build backlinks is to write good articles. Article marketing has been the consistent, time tested and proven method used by SEO experts to build one way quality back links to their sites.

When you write an article, you provide two or three backlinks to your webpages from the resource box. The anchor text of that back link is very important in SEO.

Use keywords that have consistent and long lasting traffic as anchor text for building back links. Use wrong keywords and all your effort of months will go wasted. You need to find golden keywords that have traffic and that convert. Search engines use these keywords in the anchor text in ranking.

Another important SEO fact even not known to many gurus is that Google considers a domain ending with a forward slash and without a forward slash as two separate domains.

So decide whether you want your domain to end with a forward slash or not and than use that convention consistently in link building.

Avoid issues of duplicate content. Do you know about Free Traffic System? No, then you should take a look at it. It is a free system that can help you immensely in getting quality back links to your site.

I had talked about the importance of getting lots of back links to your site in one of my earlier articles. Back links are important for ranking well in the search engines. Back Link building is also called Off Page Optimization in SEO.

Now, sites that link back to your website and the page rank of those sites are important. Getting back links with irrelevant sites dont count with the search engines. It is a wasted effort. How do search engines decide about the relevance of the site pointing to your website?

Search engines take many factors into account. One of them is the keywords used in the anchor text in linking back to your site. If your site is about love than the anchor text: love making tips may be given more importance than the anchor text: recommended website.

Search engines also like to take into account the page title of the site page that is linking to your site. Some sites are considered to be authority sites by the search engines. Back links from authority sites are very valuable.

In short, you should try to get quality back links from those websites that are related to your sites niche. Those websites should be considered as authority sites by the search engines. The anchor text used to link back to your site should contain your site niche related keyword.

In other words, getting lots of back links from authority sites is what counts with the search engines. How to get lots of back links from authority sites?

You must have heard about social book marking sites and how they work. Social book marking sites like digg, stumbleupon, furl, del.icio.us, propeller etc are considered as authority sites by search engines especially Google. Most of these social sites have a page rank of 6+.

If you can bookmark your website on these sites, you can get lots of quality one way links. Dont forget, many people visit these social bookmarking sites, so you can get many visitors in addition to back links as well.