You probably know that getting your business up the search engines is all about having a well designed website and establishing one way back links to it from other sites.

Most of the link buildinglink-building strategies you will read about revolve around the industry staples of article writing, press releases, blogging, social bookmarking and directory submitting.

Believe me it takes a lot of time, effort and sweat to actually see any results. Fortunately there is a much easier and that’s what this article is about. Getting large numbers of free, high page rank back links as easily and quickly as is possible. If you use the easy and simple method that I have outlined here that’s exactly what you will get and you will be surprised at how quick the results will be.

Now, this technique is not free and I usually pay around one hundred dollars per campaign.

So here it is; I pay someone to build me a screensaver or branded toolbar and then submit it to the free software directories for me of which there are hundreds. Doesn’t sound very exciting does it? Let me tell you why it is exciting and why you should think about using it.

So, basically you have the software built which is probably the easiest part and takes no time at all to do. You then have a thing called a "pad file" built by the same person. This pad file contains all the information about you and your software, including your URL which is the important bit. The pad file is then submitted to the free software directories.

The reason this method works so well is that the search engines look for the age of a site and the content therein as part of the importance they attach to links from the site. The vast majority of the software directories that will be listing your soft¬ware have been around for a very long time because software has been around the internet from the start. In the eyes of search engines that makes them authority sites and you will rarely find them with a page rank of less than PR4 and usually they rank from PR5 with quite a few sitting at PR6+.

Most importantly these sites want your software and to get your software they will provide a link back to your site. So you can have literally hundreds of links from high page rank "authority" sites pointing at your website.

As with everything you do to promote your site, keywords are of prime importance and part of the process is to name your software with the key words that you want to focus on. When someone put these keywords into Google the little Google robots go to the authority sites first. They pick up on the keywords in your software and follow that link right back to you. Voila! You end up at the top of the pile.

Not only are these great quality links but they are also links that will be there for a long while which means you will be at the top of the heap for a good long time. The more software you submit, and there is no limit to how much you are allowed to submit, the more back links you get back.

You can also tweak the original software, list it with some new keywords or give it a different version number and submit it again.

So where do you this work done? Simply, visit Elance.com and put it out to tender. This is free, quick and easy to do. Good Luck!