Creating safe back-links in 2014?

Web 2.0's when done smart. Social shares & bookmarks. Expired domains.

Real links from real webmasters have worked/will work always

1) similar site backlink profile
2) link bait (controversy or useful apps)
3) forums, social for direct traffic

Create something people find useful or interesting, so they share or mention you, either on their own or after you contact them.

That's your problem, you don't know what a good link looks like. Figure that relevant link out & you'll stop building junk links. Entire site relevance is stronger than a single relevant page on the backlink domain.

so what's really good to create backlinks for our website?

Spy your competitor and get those backlinks first, make sure they are not spammy !!! Atleast , my competitors are not like spam bots

You know, as Google evolves, we must evolve and with it and so must our link building practices.

But generally, Google is still the same link based search engine, and links are at its DNA. But with the evolution Google acquired the ability to detect link spam patterns. Link and anchor text manipulation on any level are no longer an option if you want to progress in SERP.

Some of the link building techniques you mentioned are still working (if you approach them the right way).

For example, forum and blog commenting - if you leave really useful comments and the link in them is relevant, that will help you drive lots of targeted traffic to your site. Competition research is also a great way to discover relevant high-quality backlink sources.

But what you should focus on is:

1 Awesome content - produce outstanding, mind blowing content and share it via social websites, relevant forums and blogger outreach to encourage links.
2 Broken link building - is a great way to get juicy links.
3 Guest blogging. Matt Cutts said it's over? Spammy guest blogging - yes. But if you produce high-quality sharable guest posts, it can give your site a huge ranking boost!
2. Develop relations with your niche influences - these days it's getting truly important in order to achive sustainable results.

Hope you will find these tips useful.

What works best now is private blogs. But you must do it in a balanced way. It seems Google penalizes a site if the site is simply growing backlinks and not the content. You need Google a reason to have backlinks.

I wrote a blog about this:

What to do after Penguin 2.1 and Hummingbird

It all still works, simply everything in moderation. If you really want to be safe, just promote awesome content and focus on ways to get people to link naturally. Most of the time you'll be pretty safe if your backlinks come naturally.

Although, matt said about guest blogging. I still have good result with it.

I'm still confused about this part.

Question... What do I do once I purchase an expired domain with good pr and backlinks thats relevant to my main website? Should I do a 301 redirect to my main site (giving me more links??) or should I simply keep it up and going and build new content every so often with links on the homepage to my main site??? ANY HELP IS APPRECIATED