Yesterday Raj looked at a tool which helps organize manual link building and discussed the pro’s and con’s of paid link building with such practices as sending out emails asking for links.

While emailing bloggers may work for some companies, other link builders find more value in paid anchor text friendly editorial linking, others in mass submitting to directories. Link baiting and social media participation also tend to bring in loads of links, from natural blogs to high authority sites (for example, to my surprise Move.com linked to one of my blogs the other day).

1. Linkbait
2. Solid resource content
3. Social media promo, coupled with #1 and #2.
4. Comments
5. Forums
6. Buying them
7. Link exchange
8. Other :)

Which form of link building has worked best for you and which is your preference? (No need to spill all of the beans here, vague answers in the comments are fine).