Backlinks - How to get oneway links and Traffic to your Website or Blog

Before going through the process of getting backlinks to your site it's important to ensure the sites are worth linking to and will assist you in getting high value backlinks. This will help you to rank highly in google search engines.
Google provides a free page rank tool on their toolbar. Install on your browser and each time you visit a site that has a page rank of between 3 and 5 if they have a comments section participate and leave valuable feedback.
Sites to get backlinks to your site include:
Article Directories
Blogs (wordpress)
RSS Feeds
Pings
Directory Submissions
Social Bookmarkers

This is quite a simple process and only requires you to place your domain name in the chosen backlink checker and submit it to be checked. It will then list the number of sites that have linked to your site. There are several backlink checkers available. The one I use is the Yahoo backlink checker, (Yahoo Site Explorer) which usually picks up the link even before Google does. This helps you to see how many safe and relevant backlinks you have achieved.

The Quality of your site is determined by the quality backlinks you receive pointing to your site. This is an indication that the site has voted for your site which looks good to Google and it rewards you by listing you in the search engines. The more votes you have the higher your position will be. Now that you know how to determine a quality site lets look at backlinking strategies that can utilised to create quality backlinks.

Blog commenting: The fastest and easiest way is to post good comments on relevant blogs. This will increase the relevance and authority of your site and also provide you with traffic from visitors to the sites.

Anchor Text: This is of particular relevant when writing content for a blog or article to be submitted to a directory. Attaching your link to a related keyword done appropriately is another great way to create high quality backlinks.

Spy on the competition: Type your keyword in google search and note the top website address open a new tab and place "link: website address" and Google will show you the high quality links the website is attached to all you have to do is outdo the competition to rank higher.