What Backlinks are valid these days - Post Penguin 3.0

It definitely depends on your niche. For example,if you were promoting an internet marketing site, you would submit to different social sites than if you were promoting a weight loss page.

I really like twitter. Try building up alot of followers who are interested in your niche, then when you write a new article, you can send it out to your twitter followers and many times you will get re-tweets, links, etc.
Here are some twitter follower building tips from an article i just wrote:
How to get Traffic From Twitter | Jobs From Home Review

There are also site like blogengage, bizsugar for internet marketing where you can submit your content. It has to be good content or it wont work.

Also for a female demo, you might try pinterest.

I also like some facebook groups and reddit. Just join as many FB groups with alot of members and post your content. If its good it will usually be re-shared.

For reddit you have to find the right sub-reddit. People are really picky aboutwhat they vote for on reddit. If they think you are trying to sell to them in any way they will downvote your site.
try it and let me know how it goes

Stallion is correct. A large percentage of posters are padding post counts in order to later add sig's to their posts, which they cannot do with low post counts. Others have read thousands of posts and feel as if they know what's are appropriate strategies but have not actually implemented them successfully.

Unfortunately there is a far smaller percentage of posters that are actually successful at ranking pages. And, it is sometimes difficult to pry useful information out of them. Instead of posting a question and hoping they will chime in, it's better to figure out who they are and search the forum for all their past posts. Then you can get a better idea of their approach.

The "Good Content" meme is laughable. I first got into SEO years back when I created a site which, at the time, was the best on the net. Soon after a few other sites moved into the niche. They all ranked below my site. Then someone came along and virtually copied everything I had created on my site. I first noticed it when they took my previous #1 ranking. I couldn't believe it. They just stole everything I had worked on and Google ranked them 1. That's when I learned about backlinks and the fact that Google doesn't really care about content so much.

I see content in a different light now. I try to write controversial content. Lots of hyperbole. I try to write content that is in the same vein as the "shared videos" you see constantly circulating through facebook and youtube. Basically it's click baiting but, if done right, can result in quite a few good backlinks. It's difficult to do for some niches but with enough thought you can usually think of something. You can write a great article about the new model Tesla and it won't rank because you'll be competing against big sites that have the same content and far better link generating capability. If you write an article questioning whether explosions from electric car batteries or fuel cells will cause more deaths than Hurricane Katrina over the next few years well then that's something someone might link to. I think that's why infographics are so popular as well. Link bait.

This is the problem and this is why I rant. Anyone that has the great ultimate advice on backlink, making the big bucks, and running awesome websites aren't going to just throw it out here. If something is working for me, why would I tell anyone without mutual gain? Anyone with really awesome fast ranking easy to get backlink will see the method abused to destruction and then it works for no one.

Like I said, the advice here is garbage. It's the same garbage people spout on forums a decade ago and in 10 years time, the same garbage will be shared.

Anyone parroting it has not seen success because it's garbage.

All we know is that Google likes "good" websites. I'll leave it up to you to figure out what "good" is. Google also likes "good" backlink. I'll leave it up to you to figure out what is "good". And I'll leave it up to you to figure how to get those "good" backlinks. No one is going to come onto some forum and tell you what you need to do.