As a webmaster, keeping your website updated and fresh is not enough. You ought to assure its success by generating enough visitors to your website. It can be done by building backlinks to your website. Unfortunately link building is one of the most tedious tasks in online business. When exchanging links with other website owners, you need to find relevant websites. In addition, not every webmaster provides a facility to submit your site to his/hers. You may have to send out invitation emails to them to trade links with you. Although many webmasters have used this way successfully, sending invitation messages like that could put one into troubles because the receivers could complain about it.

Nowadays there exists various tools available to webmasters to help them in making their website a success like scripts or programs to create link directories which are used to exchange links with others easily. These link directories normally have submission forms as a facility to webmasters to submit their sites. Submitting your website to sites that provide submission forms has some advantages. First you don't have to send out invitation emails which means you will be protected from being acussed as a spammer. Besides, if a site has a link directory, you can say that the owner is interested to trade links with others. You can even create one-way linking by submitting your site to many general directories.

Finding websites which have link directories can be accomplished by using search phrases like "add url", "submit your site" or "exchange links with us" + [keyword] on search engines. But there is a disadvantage of using this way where you will find many unrelevant websites. You will find many websites which don't have submission forms but contain those search phrases on their webpages.

Instead, you can try to use search phrases like these:

"Powered by eSyndiCat Link Exchange Script"
"Powered by the Free PHP Directory Script"
"Powered by SkaLinks"
"Powered by php Link Directory"
-etc…

Those are words that exist on link directories which were built using some reciprocal linking programs. You can try to find link directories which were created using other similar programs like LinkMachine and ReciprocalLinksPro.

You should first find out the characteristics of each reciprocal linking program. Keep in mind that many programs will remove the words "Powered by …" after their users become paid users. To overcome this problem you can use phrases like "Submission Rules" or "Submit your web site to just one category" or other phrases that always exist no matter whether the users have upgraded their programs or not.

There is also another thing you should notice when using this way in order to create backlinks to your site. Since many websites don't put their main keywords on their link directories you may not be able to use search phrases like "Powered by php Link Directory" + [keyword]. That's why you should also visit their homepages before exchanging links with them to make sure that their sites are relevant to yours.

Not only for finding sites that provide link submission forms, this technique can also be used for other purposes. For instance if you want to find article directories, you may try to use "Powered by Article Dashboard" as your search phrase.

Although finding sites with submission forms like this has some disadvantages, but by using this technique you will be able to find many general directories easily. Another advantage you can gain is your sites will be submitted to link directories which have already been indexed by search engines.