I rely heavily on adwords and don't do to much link building although I should. Having said that, I know a lot of webmasters who develop a network of industry related webmaster friends to do exchanges with. It's easier to do in certain markets than others. For me, I sell construction equipment. It's hard to find a construction equipment webmaster forum to make contacts.
IMO, the only link of value is a relevant content one way link.
The other problem is so many webmasters still think the links you mentioned; directory, recip, forum, etc have value. Not only do you have the problem of finding a group of sites you would like to get into a linking network, but you have to have webmasters that aren't using yesterdays strategies. Hard to do.
Like I said, I really haven't tried that hard, but your strategy of building good content pages that people want to link to is probably easier than hunting for decent linking partners.
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Originally Posted by the goat
I am under the impression that pretty much the only thing left is to concentrate on content and traffic and hope that the links just come naturally. Does this sound about right?
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