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1. Be a web development company and when you build sites for your clients put your link in the footer of the site with an embedded link pointing back to your site. As the clients pages and content grow so does your links.

2. Design your own free WordPress theme, or open source programs for users to download with your link copyright encrypted inside the footer.

3. Offer a submission service site for example Katz downloads but require the site owner to have to place your link before you accept their submission.

4. Design a widget that users can embed on their site for example an alexa toolbar which shows your sites stats publicly. You can design one of your own widgets that you think users would like related to your site.

5. Run your own video or image hosting website, when images are uploaded to websites the links or videos are usually set to point to the site where they were from.

6. Set up a bookmarking type of site and offer your snippet to be accepted in ShareThis.com. If they accept your submission you will have millions of users bookmarking your site through your own bookmark site.

7. Run an affiliate program having your banner placed on other websites pointing to your site. Offer a huge range of banners in your program in many different shapes and sizes to choose.

8. Offer a kind of award program that users feel proud to add to their site if they are one of the top performers they can show this badge off.

9. Set up your own advertising site for example like buysellads.com or text-link-ads.com make users display the banner or link “advertise here” pointing to your main advertising site, so even if the space hasn’t been filled you get a backlink in the meantime.

10. Offer a SSL certificate program something similar to Verisign for shopping or ecommerce sites that show buyers that your site is secure, by getting verified users to place this button on their site will gain in huge back link exposure.

All though all these 10 ways cover most niches, you may have a site that does not fit into those suggestions listed. Therefore It is up to you to utilize your creative thinking and this will in turn allow your users to naturally add your link gaining you high exposure, more authority and higher traffic to your site. Good Luck!