Robert_Charlton - 6:51 am on Mar 11, 2007 (gmt 0)

If that's the case how do you get links to your site without purchasing them?

You need content on your site that's good enough, controversial enough, notorious enough, or in some way attractive enough to motivate people to link to you. You then need to promote it enough, I feel, to get people to consider it.

Note the "Library" link in the upper left-hand corner of this page, just above the forum title. There's a lot of good information in there. Read and study it, and then adapt it to your situation.

Here's a post that immediately came to mind...

Link Development vs. Traffic Development and Staying with the Times
Popularity Has a Whole New Meaning
[webmasterworld.com...]

Here's a classic post from Brett that you've probably seen, since you've been around WebmasterWorld for a while, which still contains many truths about what you need to do...

Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone
26 steps to 15k a day
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And follow discussions in this forum for a while. Search site:webmasterworld.com on Google for posts about link-building and traffic building.

It's work.

[edited by: Robert_Charlton at 7:27 am (utc) on Mar. 11, 2007]