Is anyone successfully building backlinks naturally

Yeah. Actually, I was kind of confused what this whole backlinking thing was even about a few years ago. My sites I just focused on getting very good content and never built any backlinks to them. Yet they ranked fairly well.

So, I never even knew a person needed to manually go after backlinks.

My first real content site I built in 2004 and that has about 2,000 backlinks to it now with many of the links being from Middle Schools, High Schools, Colleges & Universities. They use it for reference material for their classes.

Sometimes a teacher or professor will write to me and ask if they can use a certain article or quiz for their class.

So, yeah natural linkbuilding certainly works. And it used to be I just figured that is how it was done. I never realized people were actually trying to backlink to get rankings. I did get a couple of links for related sites just because they had good content and so we exchanged links. And I participated in a forum because it was interesting to me and I thought it would reach people who would like my site.

I still don't like the whole backlinking for search engines thing. It just seems a little silly to me to put so much focus on something like that when in the end only 10 people are going to land on that first page anyway. So, my first focus for traffic is just to spread the word about my site. To link for people not for the sake of a backlink.

I get kind of Gung Ho about things so for a while after reading about backlink building and how everyone seems so obsessed with it i went hog wild and build a dozen links one day, maybe a thousand the next, and so on trying out services. But never again. It just seems to me like filling up the Internet with a bunch of garbage.

Link for people and I think you may find you get more natural links to happen too.