I’ve been thinking the effective way to increase backlink and eventually PR. Several general options are:
Submit to directory.
There are literally thousands of free web directories out there. Not very effective because you need to set reciprocal link. This is one good way to build backlinks, although directory submission takes weeks to months to years to get approved because these are manually approved. The quality of links depends on the directory PR and the page PR where your web is listed. Please make sure the directories have a Google PageRank value. The best directory you can be listed is Yahoo directory and dmoz.
Article Submission.
But it is hard to be listed in and expensive for Yahoo directory.
To do this, first you need to have an article ready. Your article must be unique, well thought of, and related to the site link you want to place on Articles Directories. Just like ‘submit to directory’, you need to set reciprocal link. Articles on Article Directories are then copied to other sites along with your link, that means it helps in getting more backlinks for your site.Your link should be in page which have PR.
Comment Posting.
Akismet was created to prevent people from spamming blogs.
Not very effective, because your comment usually in non PR post.
To prevent your site from being banned, make your comments relevant and sensible and don’t place a link on your comment, but only on the URL field.
Usually old post will be hard to be found by Google if the blog does not have proper structure.
Make sure these comments doesn’t have a nofollow on the link rel attribute.
Trying to be a top commentator is also not a good option, because you have to do it every month.
Write Quality Content.
Blogger usually reset the numbers at the start of the month.
Quality content means original and interesting content that people will talk about and possibly post links from their site, talking about the post you made on your site.
Other option is to give comments on the ‘popular post’ on the blog, because the home of the blog usually gives link to the ‘popular post’.
It is best that your content is current and the topics are widely talked about, even controversial topics are good link bait.
But this is also not very effective if many people comment on that post, the PR pass will be low.
Social Bookmaking.
Got a good content that nobody knows?Share it with everybody.Social Bookmaking sites help increase your site visits and backlinks when people bookmark your site on their favorites list.Just make sure you don’t abuse by bookmaking all the pages of your site or you will be banned by them.
Give something away for Free.
Do you know how to create web templates?Build as many as you can and people will start using them, and along with it are your links.The number of backlinks generated are endless.But if you cant, you can still give away something for like free quote-of-the-day, etc.something like that.
Contribute to Wikipedia.
Are you an expert of something or have some good information you want to share?Post it in Wikipedia (sign in required) and along with it is a link to your site as the resource page of the information posted on the wiki.Make sure you don’t post all the time of they’ll ban you.
Social Networking.
MySpace, Friendster, FaceBook, and even YouTube can be called a Social Networking site.These sites are good sources of traffic, especially if you a lot of friends in the list or you have a funny and interesting content you have posted on your account page.Get connected and you can get links.
Government and Education Sites.
Government and Education sites are quality backlinks, meaning Search Engines value sites more if they are linked from these kind of sites.It’s very hard to get these kind of links but you can start by participating in their forums.
*Forum.
I admit.
Same like commenting.
I have been doing these to spam sites, but not anymore 
.The right forum posting technique is to participate on sites that you are really interested in.
Does your article have PR on the article directory?
article directory? This way you can enjoy posting on forums and you will be surprised you already have thousands of posts on forums with your links on your signature.
How many clicks does it takes to visit your page from the homepage.
Join Groups.
The more clicks you need to do, means your article is not in the right place.
Being an active member of several organizations can help you get backlinks as well.
I have checked ezinearticles, it has PR of 6.
Most established organizations have good traffic and PR and if your site is linked there, your site can have a good backlink from this site as well as other members can link your site from their sites too.
To find my article I need to first click the ‘expert author’ link (PR 6).
Participate to Yahoo!
If you have lots of articles there, you can click the ‘next 100′ link, but too bad it does not have PR on that page.
Answers.
If I click the First initial of my name, there is no PR too on that page.
Yahoo!
Well I think ezinearticles does not gives good PR to our web.
Answers is a very popular section from Yahoo!
I think their URL is not SEO friendly.
and people visit there to ask questions and participate by posting the best answer.
Next I try ehow.com (PR 7, better than ezinearticles).
First, look for a question you think you can answer, post the answer on your site and finally post the Answer in Yahoo!
They have better URL structure.
Answers along with your link.
If you have article there, you might have PR for the article.
Post on Craigslist.
Internet marketing was promoting ezinearticles and everybody writes there including me.
Most of the traffic this site gets are from the US.
When I write this article, I just realize that it was a mistake.
If you wish to get good traffic from Craigslist, make your post catchy and not spam.
Craigslist is more of a traffic generating site than a source for backlink since a post expires after sometime.
BTW, I also make my own article www.saidul.com, which I make proper structure in forums.
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