How to Create Backlinks

Use Higher Page Rank Websites.

Videos sites:
Create videos related to your blog, add them any higher page rank videos site and linked them with your blog posts.

Article Submission sites:
Just sign up to article submission websites and start submitting articles. Write more and more unique contents, it will also bring good amount of readers to your blog.

Commonly used article submission sites
  Squidoo
  Hubpages
  eHow

Social Bookmarking or Networking Sites:
Social bookmarking or networking sites are another way to get traffic. They also provide traffic to your blog. One should be careful while building links on social bookmarking sites.

Commonly used social bookmarking sites:
  StumbleUpon
  Reddit
  Digg

Commonly used social networking sites:
  Twitter
  Facebook

Guest Posting:
Guest posting help you getting high quality links and they will help in higher rank and increasing your domain authority.

Comments:
Comment on nofollow or dofollow blogs only related to your blog.


Forum:
Start Forum Threads related to your blog and link to your blog posts. Do not use your link in forum signature. Some people also say add your signature to high quality forum. If forum have website review add your website review.

Discussion Boards or Questions Answers:
Use discussion board or ask question website to get traffic or links. Add question related to your blog and liked with blog.

Internal Linking:
Interlink your blog posts to another post on same blog when writing on your blog content using anchor text.

Directories:
I suggest you do not do and it is also a part of old SEO. It give you backlinks but using your name anchor text. that's why I am stopping you. If you do select accurate category related to your website and use higher page rank directories.

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