Where to find links to a website

When you begin to find links to your website, the best links often come from highly moderated sources. Links from loosely moderated blogs and forums are of less value. Like everything in life, a valuable link is the one that is often difficult to get. Therefore, when you are building links to your website, it is better to avoid websites that accept every link submitted to them. Remember, moderation is the key. When you are in desparation to get backlinks to your websites, do not jump at all linking opportunties presented to you. There could be unrelated reciprocal links or free links from link farms. It makes situation even worse because it's bad neighborhood.

It is difficult to maintain reputation on the internet. Sometimes a prankster may place links to your website from some bad neighborhood. Therefore, it is required to keep watching websites linking to you and the quality of links to your website. There is an overhead to link building process. In order to reduce this overhead you need to find reliable link partners. That is why highly moderated websites gain high pageranks. They don't place external links easily on their websites. It is hard to get links from such websites, but once you get a few such links to your website, you can surely benefit from it.

Wherever possible get one-way links to your website on priority basis. They provide some value to your website. When finding links to your website, don't pay too much attention to pagerank; instead, look at the number of external links, relevancy and longevity of the link on a page. Your link has to stay on a page with relevant content for a long time. There are many reasons for webmasters to juggle with links on links pages. Your link could disappear for any reason, even after you put a reciprocal link to their website. Webmasters at link exchange websites can act very clever.Manually building links to a website is so tedious that you cannot really blame anyone. Just imagine doing this repeatedly, finding links to your website,writing numerous letters to webmasters asking for links, generating link pages, accommodating link partners,  choosing the best links, checking partner sites if your link still exists or not and so on. It is a hard job.

As you see, there are many dangers when you try to find links to your website. The more you avoid the better links you can get.