As everyone know linkbuilding the the main pillar in the SEO of any website. I would like to hear some tips from others that from where do they get their links from.

Include as many places as possible. Like directory submission or press release etc.

I respectfully disagree about links being the "main pillar".

The reason I say this is because you can have a site with content and no links and it will do better than a site with no content. :-)

The other reason is that you can't be 100% sure that liinks will always work well and the way you think they will. I say this because right now you can get lots of links to a bad site and it will do well to some extent. This is bad and I have to think it's going to change at some point.

But a site that has good content can do well without depending on linking. At least, this it what I think.

But to answer your question, we submit to as many search engines and directorys as possible, and we link our sites together in a haphazard manner.

Very well said. Lets imagine a site that has no or very less content and just pumping more and more links will do it good to some extent.

While a quality site with quality content can be more beneficial in a long run. People tend to link to online resources and that way it can also bait others to link to the site.

Back to the question where we get our links from.

I got my first set of links from article submissions. ( 3000 to 4000 links )

After that I waited for 2 months. And got another bunch of links from directories. ( Maybe 10,000 links from directories )

Recently from social bookmarks ( Around 50 to 60 links )

And in the mean while sponsored some people to do forum posting on my behalf on another forums and got the links from the signatures ( Around 5000 of them )

The directory submissions are still ongoing on regular basis as I have a person dedicated towards it.

Planning to write 4 new articles and submit it across 300 article repositories to get around 1000 backlinks in next month or so.

Sorry to bring up an old thread, but I'm a little confused.

Do you continue adding links forever? At some point can there be too many links, say to pr0 or other sites with lower pr than yours?

Thank you,
Cy

Yes I do keep on creating more and more links forever [Means from last 2 years it is being done]

If someone else is also targetting the similar keyword then I would not like to fall short of some thousand links to get the first place. The process is slow but it is the white hat technique at its best. After sometime when the site gets popular people do tend to blog about it and thus gets us more links.

Blogging was just an example there can be 100 of other ways by which you can get links from other webmasters.

If I am asked how many links I want then there is not any exact figures in my mind. But yes the minimum number of links that I always make for a site is 5000 to 7000 links. At this time some positive results are fetched from the site through its traffic and its revenue.

Really hot discussion is going on..
I m agree that new and unique content will help u to get ranking but a'ter some time like 3-4 months u will lose your ranking. so according to my experience link building is helpful to maintain your SERP position. and for that link building is great weapon.