The top 10 resources for getting links according to Google are:

1. 10 steps to getting links to your site - A great article stuck in 1999 when reciprocal linking was the way to go. Honestly, this article would have been buried a long time ago if it wasn’t from Microsoft. Maybe recips are still the way to go in Live?
2. Template Tags/get links - by WordPress and not at all useful to this experiment. Seems there is a wp_get_links() tag.
3. Arelis - Some kind of SEO-in-a-box solution that helps you build and track links through their software. It looks like it is a fancy way to request links through their network. Cool. You can do that here too!
4. XSS - How to get 20 .gov links in 20 minutes - By Oatmeal of SEOmoz fame. An interesting BH approach to sneaking out some .gov backlinks.
5. How to get links without asking - By Ken McGaffin of WebsiteTips.com. 10 suggestions on link bait from late 2005. Pretty solid stuff like Suggestion #1: Make it clear you want links (hey reader - Linkers Union wants links! ’nuff said.). Most of this stuff still sounds like work though.
6. 12 Different Types of Links and How To Get Them - by Stuntdubl. If you don’t know Todd yet take some time to do so. He’s a hell of a great guy and smart, too. Read his stuff. Then read it again.
7. Technorati - Technorati specializes in blog tracking including the links going to and coming from them. It offers several useful tools.
8. Link building articles from linking expert Eric Ward - A pioneer of link building, Eric has been at it since 1994 and has worked with several large companies including Amazon.
9. Alexa Toolbar - Downloadable toolbar from Alexa that measures website popularity by tracking your clicks.
10. Tips for finding the best pages to get links from - By Jim Boykin another smart SEO. Jim talks about the value of links from sub-pages and how to determine page “power”. There is also a part two.

I think about half of these are actually useful. As mentioned #1 is out-of-date. The SEOmoz post is a good one but not something I’d actually try. The WebsiteTips article brings some obvious stuff to attention. Stuntduble always has great info. Technorati is a great site. And then Eric Ward and Jim Boykin have lots of good advice to dispense.

The WordPress article is relevant to the search I did, just not what I was looking for.

All of these results are here because of the quantity of backlinks they carry and the anchor text used in those links.

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