There are plenty of things that you need to do in order to make your online business a success.
But if I had to choose one thing that will really make your business succeed long-term, then that would be the back links you pick up to your website.
Back links are the most vital aspect and promoting your business and you will need to work on getting back links early and often if you really want to make money online.
The links that point back to your website are the only way that the search engines know how authoritative your website is.
If they see that there is only a few websites that link back to your website than they assume that your website is not that quality and will not rank you highly in their search engine index.
On the other hand, if you have a high number of back links pointing to your website from a variety of different websites then they will assume people like your website for a reason and they will rank it higher in the search engines because of this.
The key to a back linking promotion strategy is making sure that you pick up quality back links and naturally at a steady pace over time.
You don't want to pick up thousands of back links within the first few days of your website because this is just not natural and the search engines will rank you accordingly or may even deindex your website altogether.
One of the best ways to produce quality back links for your website is to write articles and submit them to the different article directories on the Internet.
Not only will these links look good for your website, but if you write quality articles then you have a chance that other webmasters will pick up your content and place it on their own website with your links attached.
So you can see how powerful this method can be by submitting a few quality articles each and every day.
Another great way to pick up quality back links is through press releases.
Just by submitting a press release to a handful of directories you have the chance that other directories will pick it up from syndication and will also include a link back to your website as well.
It's best to use a variety of promotional linking tactics when getting them to your website.
Do a little bit each day but stay consistent with your back linking efforts and soon you will start to see traffic flow in with no way to be able to turn it off.