Here are the link building strategies that you can follow easily to promote your site in an effective manner.

1. In link building, the general practice is to submit sites in web directories. What people do is search for web directories on the web through search engines, and submit their sites on all the web directories. But it is not really the best idea; a better way of link building is to find directories related to your niche and submitting sites in those web directories.

2. First prepare a list of do-follow blogs and start commenting on those blogs with high page rank. Dealing with high page ranking site will fetch you good results.

3. Actively participate on do-follow signature allowed forums.

4. Another simple way is to participate actively in popular social networking sites like Facebook, Myspace, Twitter etc. You may feel that this process will take much time. Yes it will, but only at the starting stage where you need to build a network with people related to your niche. After that you can just spend 10 – 15 minutes daily to comment on others’ post and answer queries.

5. Place your products/services ads on free classified sites under relevant categories.
This tip comes as a bonus to you- hire a consultant. Yes, you can outsource link building to someone experienced and get your job done. Outsourcing will help you save money and time which can be utilized to enhance your current products/services or build a new one. Just happens, that this bonus tip is the most followed strategy by online business experts.