Free links are not a dream
Yes that's right, it is possible to get free links which will help both your rankings and your traffic, but you will have to spend the time necessary to put yourself in a position to profit from these sources of free links.
Free links from forums
While there are some indications that signature links from forums may be devalued by Google, they may very often prove to be a valuable source of traffic if they are from forums where the posters are interested in your services. Even some forums which do not allow signatures to be posted will allow the spidering of your profile which will result in a link.
Frequent posters in forums which allow signature links can result in a surprising number of links over a period of time. There is a myth that only recent posts are maintained in the search engines index, but the fact is that such links can last for years. I still have links in search engines from forums that I have not posted in for over two years.
You can find links to some SEO forums in our SEO resources section, but there are thousands of forums on all sorts of topics. A search for your topic of interest with the word forum added will reveal a surprising number.
Free links from top search engine rankings
Most search engine results are not spiderable and are not indexed but you will find that there is a group of people who seem to feel that "scraping" the search engine rankings and publishing them on their web page is a way to get rankings, I really don't think this spammy practice is going to help them much but it can help you to gain links if you are ranking in the top ten on major search engines.
As an example of this about a year I was conducting some tests on the value of forum links and used a made up word added to my page title as a test word. It so happened that the test page ranked well for a few keywords and now this made up word (oxydiffrecoustt246) returns 624 links from other pages. While this in itself was not of much ranking help to me all of these links were from pages which were trying to rank for the keywords which this page ranked well for and by copying the SERPs for this page provided a relevant anchor text link to my page.
Free links from articles
If you set up a section of your site devoted to articles of interest related to the topic of your site and take the time necessary to ensure that they are great articles (they can be for instance written by experts in the field under discussion, just make sure to get permission to republish them) you will find that many people will provide a link to such articles for their readers convenience.
If you also write some articles and submit them to sites which publish articles you will also get some nice links that way.
Free links are not a fantasy, all they require is a bit of thought and planning. Start getting free links for your site today.
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