A lot of businesses have websites and most of them have no clue how to use them to make sales or generate leads. Even if a site has proper optimization techniques used on the site itself, it is very important to have links pointed to the site to get it ranked well in the search engines.

Of course getting great links to a website can be challenging, but usually small businesses don't need great links to rank well for less competitive terms, just good ones. So how can you get good links to your small business site? Norvax, a competitor of my employer, has a really good list of 27 Free and Cheap Ways to Get Valuable Links to Your Site that is worth checking out.

You got to figure if the list is good enough to link to my employer's competitor's website, it has got to be good.