I think should focus on article and have some regular update in that by adding the backlinks of other article.It will publish and market your website in serp's.

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do till you rank or give up.

Prepare an article which is related to your niche(minimum 500 words) and post it in free article directories, don't insert links within your article. use Author resource section for putting links.

Yes don't over flood your articles with links, just put the links in your profile if they truly want to learn more. I recommend using a call to action to get the reader motivated to respond to you.

Article posting is one of the best way to get dofollow backlinks that helps to increase website's ranking. But always use unique content for article posting because now a days Quality matters not Quantity.

I can tell by your post that you only want to increase your post number The obvious answer is simply leave a link to the articles you are posting

Article posting is good for traffic and for quality backlinks. When you post a good quality article, you can leave a backlink leading back to your website and that will bring traffic and help to boost your rankings on google and other search engines.

Post quality articles with good content at good article sites which has good PR.Include the keyword and link in author bio..Make a strong author bio so that visitors go to your link .

List out high page rank website list and prepare quality article to be posted. Based on the panda and penguin update please ensure to submit the article in the limited list of high quality directories for better ranking positions.

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Of coursing, posting quality and fresh articles to top article directories help a lot.

You can insert links in the body of your article and/or you can also insert your links in the author box.

It would be very helpful if you also read first the posting guidelines for each article website you submit your content to so you can avoid being flagged as spam or to avoid your content being rejected.