Great ways to get Free Links

If you have ever wondered how to get good strong one-way links to your real estate website, I would like to share some very easy ways to do so.  Here is a short list of methods to get those ever desired links to your online real estate shingle, in no particular order:

• Do the world some good and donate on Kiva.  This is a website that lets you donate to entrepreneurs the world over.  It can do your heart good, and create great one way links like this here or this one here.
• Buy a word on thebigwordproject.com.  This is a viral marketing experiment that lets you link words to websites, like the word 'listing'.  The cost? $1 per letter.  OK, not free, but pretty close.
• Use squidoo.  You can create free pages that even generate income, like this one.  This page about the best real estate websites, not created by me, refers several visitors a week.
• Use a REW or AR blog, such as this one you are reading.
• Enter niche directories.  REW member VRI has a particularly good list of real estate directories.
• Exchange links with friends or peers with websites.  Everyone has a blogroll somewhere, even if it's on your REW blog.  Use it, that is what it is there for!!
• Enter a blog hub like blogtoplist or topblogsites.  These links typically don't pass PR, but they do pass traffic, particularly if you have high enough traffic to place higher in the standings.  Of course, they do give away your traffic #'s (for the blog!)  I should put links on my main site and kick up to the front page for a while, but hey, that wouldn't be very nice to some poor housing bubble blog.
• Here is a very easy link: Enter a blogging contest like the Palmetto Challenge.  The submissions for the very first inaugural 'trophy' end tomorrow at 12pm EST, and the contest is every week.  That is a method that could keep generating lots of links if you submit often enough.
• Link to blogs and articles you like, such as this one for lousy listing photos - often those links are returned.
• Open an account with city-data.com and place a free B&M business listing, like mine for Augusta Georgia.
• Ask for them! You would be surprised how a polite inquiry can work wonders.  Like this one Dave Smith was kind enough to put up on his Tucson AZ Real Estate Blog after I mentioned I really liked his site.  Thanks Dave! (Now, let's not go bothering Dave, I was just pointing out a kindness he did for me.)
• Publish 'linkbait' like this bizarre listing photo of the future.  Hope yours works better than that one, but hey, we can't get it right every time!

I hope you find some of these ideas useful.  I'm holding back my REALLY good ones, since some of ya'll are competition and all, but we are in this together so no harm no foul, right?  Go ahead, use Google to try to find them, but it won't tell you anything! 

Good luck!  And try that Palmetto Challenge tip!  I need GOOD entries please!!