The most important search engine ranking factor is links. Google looks at the amount of links pointed to your site as the number one factor in determining who ranks on top of who in their search results. Search Engines look at a link to your site as a vote for you. Obviously, the more votes, the better. There are many ways of getting links to your site. Writing an informative article and posing it on Squidoo, Ezinearticles, or Ehow is just one example. Writing a press release on PRWeb is another. Submitting your site to online directories will also allow you to add a link pointing back to your site. It is important when doing any of these that you remember to actually include the link to your site in the content written or in the signature of the post. Not only will you receive direct traffic from visitors of the article(s) but you will receive organic search traffic from search engines like Google the more articles you post to the web.
The best link to your site you can get would be a link on the top of the main page of a site that had been live and ranking well for at least a few years and is in your industry(using similar keywords.) This would be a link under anchor text that is a strong root keyword of yours.
