What do you use to get others to link back to you?

[Menard]

Ever now and then I do a simple Google search to see what backlinks are coming back to my FreeBacklink site.

Some of my boost in traffic lately might have something to do with links like this: http://twitter.com/Euphoriaplant

Of course, with the site at a PR3 and pushing closer to 100,000 on Alexa, it generates its own backlinks from visitors to the site.

Offering something free for webmasters is a gimme for getting backlinks, but what other methods do you use that have been successful in getting others to link to you automatically?

[Andy]

The best method now is probably Themes for Blogs IMO.

But I started out by providing a viral hit counter where even sites that didn't support PHP would still link back via the test script.

[2dragonsltd]

Writing good content goes a long way to getting natural links,

otherwise it mentions in forums and blogs

[dougadam]

I do a google search to find quality sites in the niche of my website. Then I ask them to exchange links.