Submission is not helping, what else to do?

[etech-racheal]

Submission is one to get backlinks. But it is also important to optimize your site properly. Update content regularly, add fresh & unique content, submit articles & most important use proper keywords. All these points help you in getting more backlinks & this will result in high PR.

[FLIR thermal imaging]

Here you can get 50 tips to get back links.
1. Link bait.
2. Post link on forums in signature.
3. Do something groundbreaking that gets picked up by a news site.
4. Give freebies away.
5. Link to others and they might link to you.
6. Post your link as a source in Yahoo Answers or other questions sites.
7. Link exchange.
8. Insult another site. Ex, No Daddy
9. Promote another site.
10. Make an ebook.
11. Produce great content.
12. Start an affiliate program.
13. Link from your other sites.
14. Go to a dofollow blog and become a top commentator.
15. Guest post and make sure your link is on the author bio.
16. Form some sort of partnership with other webmasters.
17. Submit an article to article sites.
18. Submit and article to sites that need an article and make sure your link is on it.
19. Provide a great service.
20. Offer your service or product for free.(at least at first)
21. Ask to have your site reviewed.
22. Become Dofollow and get submitted to Dofollow directories.
23. Submit to free directories.
24. Submit to paid directories.
25. Review sites. If you give a good review the site might link to you. You also have a chance for other sites to link to you if you give a bad one.
26. Get stumbled, dugg, ect.
27. Build list pages. These seem to work the best in getting links.
28. Make surveys.
29. Create a page about your site or blog on Wikipedia and put a link back to it.
30. If you are have a website(not a blog) start a blog.
31. Sponsor a site.
32. Start a charity or other non-profit cause.
33. Post great videos or pictures.
34. Get sued. If it a company everyone hates or everyone loves your in.
35. Hold a contest.
36. Build a website/blog about a service everyone loves.
37. Release a free extension,component, or plug-in.
38. Have an interview. It needs to be someone who is famous. No one cares about the interview with your mom.
39. Take a unique picture, and allow people to post it on their website if they link back.
40. Create a theme or template. Make sure you put a Dofollow link in it.
41. Use trackbacks.
42. Ask your readers for link love.
43. Trade articles of posts.
44. Create new articles/posts. Everyone loves to link to them.
45. Start a dofollow directory.
46. Use Craigslist.
47. Create a squidoo and link back to your site.
48. Link to your site on Twitter.
49. Tell readers to tweet posts.
50. Ask organizations to link to you.

[betty]

Submission is one to get backlinks. But it is also important to optimize your site properly. Update content regularly, add fresh & unique content, submit articles & most important use proper keywords. All these points help you in getting more backlinks & this will result in high PR.

I completely agree with you. Submission is one kind of good process from which you can generate good backlinks but as you said the rest of things are also important to do for getting good amount of backlinks.

[shakir]

golfandsports make all the tips ......but many of them not effective in ranking

[rayter]

The site is dead already. Anyways, you should only choose keywords with good search volume. Don't stuff your tags with tons of keywords. It's useless.

[alexisjeffer]

I do think too that as a fresh starter in SEO, one must be dedicated to exert more effort in optimizing a newly created site. And yes, updated content and fresh ideas were really a plus to make it more known to the market. And in achieving good traffic owners must managed it well. And if you've got not enough budget, then better do a thorough research, for as we all know, there are lots of good tips and topics about optimizing on the web. And one must do is to hardly locate some good tips about it..

[mrandrei]

^ I couldn't agree more. Content is king in SEO. If the readers find your site interesting, they will link your site naturally. Good contents drive good traffic.

[signaltelevision]

You can generate quality backlink as many as you can generate for your site it help you to get your serp.

[myndconsulting]

Yeah I agree to all above post. Content is king and do optimize your site regularly and use a key phrase that generates high search volumes.

[aartig]

Use the following to get your site a bigger push in search engines to be ranked higher...

* article submission
* forum posting (through signature)
* web directory submission
* blog directory submission
* participating in community sites like Yahoo Answers
* press release submission
* online group posting
* promotional ads
* link exchange
* Social bookmarkings
* Feed submission

[zidit]

Use the following to get your site a bigger push in search engines to be ranked higher...

* article submission
* forum posting (through signature)
* web directory submission
* blog directory submission
* participating in community sites like Yahoo Answers
* press release submission
* online group posting
* promotional ads
* link exchange
* Social bookmarkings
* Feed submission

Directory submission take a long time for SEO benefit

[smartseo]

Please do proper off-page optimization part...

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[InternetCommunications]

All good things take time. You shouldn't expect submitting your homepage to directories gets excellent results straight away or even at all. Submitting to directories is a good way to get the homepage out there. Getting quality backlinks and becoming more popular will move you up the rankings.

[extreme-seo]

Don't have budget but have time? Then start following all the techniques of optimization. DO not allow illegal activities for promoting your website or blog otherwise you will get ban from SE.