You can build whitehat links through high PR article directories, press releases, Web 2.0 properties, private blog networks and a lot more. Make sure that you build them slowly, because if you build too many, Google might flag your website.

Whitehat links????

You do realize that creating your own links by any means is NOT white hat. According to google's webmaster guidelines, you are not supposed to build backlinks to your own site.

Everyone does it anyone. Ignore white hat vs black hat rubbish. As long as you avoid spam that's sent directly to your money site, you will be fine.

*shameless plug* Take a look at the link in my sig. Google sniper 2.0 is a great course for someone learning how to make money online. And best of all, it stresses the importance of keyword research. Which significantly decreases the amount of link building you need to do in order to rank your website.

Hope that helps!

Also....

If you're looking for the best quality links. You want links from High PR pages. The BMR network is pretty good for that. Links from blog networks is way more effective than most other sources.

I agree with what others have said. Press releases, blog commenting, forum posting, etc etc are great as long as you diversify. Also I've had lots of success with using sites like ping.fm, social connector sites that immediately publish your new blog posts etc to a bunch of social services.

Find Niche directories related to your industry and submit your site to them. Once approved, these are counted as "relevant" links and get more link value.

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A linking strategy is a methodology that builds appropriate inbound links to your site and helps you achieve your overall business objectives.

To start you must have good content on your site. You should also publish outbound links that your site users will find valuable. Finally, you should have a target list of external sites from which you can request links.

You need to research Link Wheels. They are the best thing since sliced bread. I was struggling with major keywords for our product,ie dog clothes uk, but since setting up the link wheel we are booming on Google. Our site is only 4 months old and already in top 20 for the results. Have a look if you want. That was because of the first wheel. Just launched the second wheel yesterday so, watch this space...

Go hard as possible. 90% of your backlinks won't get found anway so that's why
do more than less.

But remain consistant day in day out, don't do a heap so of backlinks and do nothing
for 3 weeks.

Don't ping your backlinks in the begining. Let Google find them naturally.

I was wondering if you guys consider Profile type Backlinks to be in the white-hat category. I don't accept the definition that any links you build yourself are black-hat. After all the real black hat seo was well pointed in the message of this thread initiator.

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Oh dear...

Look at the link in his sig.

The domain is called leathercoverstore.

The site title is : Safe to say that this guy isn't serious.

The main issue of recent Google Algorithm update is all about ensuring quality and promoting most deserving sites. This way, the quality control and Google Web Spam Control Manager Matt Cutts has clearly said that they are putting every thing to use to control spam. So, whatever is exaggerated and unreasonable falls into the category of spam.