Getting one-way links for your website takes a highly professional approach and a real effort on your part. But well, the benefits are manifold as well. If you are a serious webmaster, you would certainly want to build as many one-way links to your website as possible. Well, If you are still learning how to do it, this article will equip you with enough ideas to go in just the right direction.

First of all, you must have a good, valuable and interesting website. This is a little too obvious, isn’t it? In spite of the obviousness of this fact, you can easily find webmasters focusing solely on getting reciprocal or one-way links without focusing at all on how visitors perceive their website. It must always be kept in mind that we build the website for BOTH visitors and search engines.

Here a few pointers to get you started:

1. Start by submitting your website to various major directories such as DMOZ and Yahoo. Just make sure you submit very carefully and in just the right category or your website won’t be listed.

2. Use the power of article marketing. Write articles and carefully submit them to various article directories. Articles are an amazing way to get one-way links to your website.

3. Talk to webmasters with websites with similar theme as yours and request them to publish your articles there.

4. Submit your testimonials to products you really like. Usually your testimonial is published with a link back to your own website, a great way to receive one-way links.

5. Get into forums which complement your website’s theme. Sign up and include your website in your signature which will appear with each post you make. However, read the forum instructions first as some forums now use a rel="nofollow" attribute on links which means they don’t mean anything for your linking purposes.

6. You may give away free e-books, softwares and other goodies to your visitors. Generally, these goodies are talked about in various forums (provided that they are really good) and you will find that your traffic continues to increase besides the one-way links that you get.