When you hear the term Off-Site SEO it refers to the search engine optimization that you perform beyond your own webpages, beyond your own website itself. Even though you may have a well-designed site, with great original content, with proper keyword density and all your tags perfectly set up, there is still more you need to do to make sure you rank high within the search engine results.

The help you need one actually come from other websites in the form of links from them to your site. That doesn't matter if it's a standard static web site, a blog, a web directory, an article directory or a video website or video blog also knows as a Vlog. You need back links from every type of site you can imagine, in fact the more you have and the more diversified they are and the more high ranking PR sites you get the better off you'll be.

- These are the some of the main ways that you can get back links:

- Creating original content that makes people want to link to your site. This is known as link bait.

- Getting directory listings. The higher ones like DMOZ are hard to get but worth the wait.

- Writing and syndicating articles in article directories and/or other websites.

- Writing press releases. If done well this can provide a great deal of link juice.

- Make forum postings where you can have a signature link back to your site. You must contribute well or be deleted as a spammer.

- Post comments on appropriate blogs. Again, make the comments worthwhile or you can be again deleted as a spammer and lose a possible link.

- Create a Squidoo lens or a Hub page with appropriate content and a few links back to your site. Don't fill them with links as the search engines will catch that.

- Purchase links to your site. But don't get caught or you can be banned.

Keep in mind that if you get even one high ranking quality PR site linking back to yours, this will do a tremendous amount for your own site PR and your ability to rank higher in the websites. Put your efforts here if you don't have much time to link build. One-way links are also much better than two-way links as the search engines frown on a lot of link exchanges since it was heavily done by a lot of spam sites in the past. Links in the author box in articles that you place in article directories can be a great source of link juice since you can often use at least two links back to your site for each article you write. Talk about doubling your efforts! Use one of those links to your main site and another to a deeper page within your website. In fact that's another important point, don't just link to your main webpage. You need to link to pages deeper within your website to give your website more over all authority. In turn, links from those deeper pages to your main page are also counted as links and can help boost your PR.

All this may sound like a lot of hard work, and it is. But, if you put in the work and the long hours it takes for a good back link strategy you will be rewarded accordingly with a higher ranking in the search engine results. Remember, no pain, no gain! Learn more about dirty blue widgets and SEO basics using dirty blue widgets keyword term