How to increase rankings?

[activitysuper]

I know to increase rankings involves link building, but what kind of link building is worth it and what type is not?

At the moment most of my link building effort is focused on guest blogging, which has worked well for me, I have seen some good movement on a range of keywords using this tactic but I cant help but think I could get a lot more movement in the serp's if I mixed it up a little.

A few other link building techniques I know of are below, but I don't really use them, so my question is what ones should I be using combined with my guest blogging to give my rankings that little extra help.

1. Directory Submissions

2. Article Submissions

3. Press Release Distribution

4. Forum Signatures

5. Blog Comments

6. Social bookmarking

7. Social Sites (Squidoo, Weebly, Wordpress, blogger)

If I have missed something please let me know.

Cheers

[AlanMosley]

yes maybe i was a bit quiest to dismisss the social sites.

[activitysuper]

Thanks Alan,

See I like guest blogging because usually the posts are picked up quickly and rankings start to fluctuate in a fairly short time.

I agree with you on the directory side of things as well, a lot of negativity on them but once again I have seen some movement when using these, although it does take sometime for the links to be excepted into the directories.

I see you say the rest is going to be a waste of time but I kind of think the squidoo thing might be a good one, when I check out some of the pages on there they have some good PR, I guessing Google crawls this website a lot as well so maybe I would see some movement quickly using this method.

Cheers

[AlanMosley]

Guest blogging is good.

directory submission can be ok, if they are local of niche, teh rest is a bit of a waste of time.

Try to get quality links. get relevent sites to link to you, create good content and earn links.