Do you know about link building tools? If your answer is no, you are still not prepared for the web. For your site to reach Google’s first page, you NEED to get links to your site. Some tools can be used to help you with this task.

Articles: Write creative articles about your products or services and post them on article directories. Every article that you post has the potential to create thousands of links for your site. The articles should be relevant to your business and catch the reader’s interest.

Blogs: An off site blog is a good way to build links and increase traffic to you site. This is because each blog is seen as a different web page. You’ll also generate traffic to your site in addition to pretty good inbound links.

Bookmarks: They are great link building tools. By bookmarking your articles, you link them back to your site. A few examples of popular bookmark sites are Del.icio.us and Digg.com. In addition to this, including social bookmarks to your articles simplifies the saving and sharing process of your content by the readers. The Social Bookmarking Tool is available with about 50+ such bookmarking sites.

Web Directories: Web directories are the best link building tools. They give you natural quality links. When listing your site with a large number of directories, you get more inbound links. Web directories have submitting tools to help with directory submission of your site.

You can also use directory submission software. These softwares come with a huge database of web directories. They will automatically submit your site to these directories and save you a lot of time. You won’t need to find all these directories, dig for the submission pages and fill the forms. There are free softwares available on the web.

Forums: Find and post to forums related to you business. Add a discrete link back to your site to all of your posts. If you do this often, you’ll build a significant number of inbound links and attract some good traffic too.

Social Networking: You are probably already doing some social networking but don’t know that it is one of the best link building tools. The goal of social networking is to make friends and gently lure them toward your site.

I’ve listed here the 6 most effective and widely used link building tools. They are not new. You were certainly already using most of them if not all, but you probably never thought they could bring customers to your business!