How To Make Quality Links? Need specifics.

Let me make sure I understand what you are saying... You have some domain, let's call it mainsite.com. You have been building backlinks to that site. Now you bought the-skin-whitening-cream.com and are using that to build links to each of those original links. Do I have that right?

Anything social is a waste of time. Bookmarking, Twitter, +1's, etc.

I have never thought blog commenting was a very powerful back linking method. For one thing, most of your comments will never get approved. It's tough finding sites that only relate to your niche, so you end up branching out to other sites and getting a bunch of unrelated links.

To be honest, things have not changed that much. The recent updates just brought things more in line with what Google was always preaching. Before Panda and Penguin, they just couldn't enforce a lot of the guidelines as easily.

Relevant in-context links have always worked. They still do. Best way to get those on high PR pages is either guest posting, or buying domains yourself to create them.

Authority directories still work. Dmoz, Best of the Web, Dmegs, pretty much anything that has a strict editorial review process and/or you have to pay for a chance to be entered in the directory.

If you buy the domains yourself, make sure they have content that suits your nich. Here's a thought, why not write your own content, that way you know exactly where your links are coming from and that they are coming from on topic content sources.

Yes I'm ranking websites with this. Increasing PR doesn't make me any money.

I don't think doing blog commenting and social bookmarking is a waste of time. They are just two of the other strategies in building high quality links. Perhaps you should also consider other strategies, such as writing guest posts and unique contents to article directories such as Ezine. Based on what I've read on the official Google Webmaster Central Blog, the latest update on "Panda" algorithm is designed to improve rankings for a large number of high-quality websites. So, their advice for publishers is to focus on delivering the best possible user experience on their websites and not to focus too much on what they think are Google's current ranking algorithms or signals. It is important then to post unique, high-quality contents in doing blog commenting, guest posting, and article submissions. I hope this would help.

Let me share you something, never heard it discussed before though.

If you're focusing on one keyword, you might be seeing disappointed in few days. You should grab likely a few more keywords for your website and optimize them one by one.

As long you're optimizing your website as in user experienced, and not the way how people did for the bots, you're safe. Goodluck my friend. And don't try to be stagnant in just backlinks backlinks backlinks. I did alot of testing which was like I try different strategy on 130 websites I own and this is the simplest and working strategy. No lie. But knowing that your ranking won't shoot up straight away, and but you're will be seeing your keywords will be all ranking in your favor.

OK, so I'm not sure if I have the money or time to go and buy another domain name, I'm working on building this one up from scratch as a sister site. I have a no follow photo banner link in the sidebar leading to the main site on every page, and a do follow link to the main site from the home page, is that OK for SEO?

What I was looking for was some fairly simple ideas of back links that still work, like today I wrote a Squidoo lens linking to the sister site, and I assume that's still a positive thing for rankings, even if it only works a little. I need some more sites that are easy to publish on, that still give a fairly good back link, like I need names, Info Barrel, Triond, Knoji, Yahoo Voices, etc. The guest posting is hard, but I guess I might try to do that as well.

If you want quality links make blog comments on relevant and same niche blogs, do guest blogging, press release submission and submit your blog post to top social bookmarking sites. Unique content plus high quality links will help to increase your keywords ranking.

After everything that's been said and done, people are STILL buying these useless domains.

Why?????