I guess i am a real noob.. im still kinda confused on backlinking. Dont you just blast your link to your site anywhere you can find. like how doyou make a keyword anchor?
Google " creating a keyword anchor " and you will find way more professional examples than most will give here, even as simple as it is.
As as for your question on backlinking...um, not exactly.
Backlinks are easy to get but there is a side effect to them. When a site is related to a bunch of links that have nothing to do with the topic/niche/market that site is ranking for, it pulls both sites down by those backlinks counting against the sites instead of for them.
Backlinks are suppose to be as relevant in topic/niche/market as the rest of the content on a website is.
An example:
You have a website on, say...exotic birds. You are going to write articles on the types of birds, feeding habits, care of the animals, etc. and submit that to the article directories for related backlinks.
That creates a positive backlink due to the topic being relevant, not mattering it is your article or not.
The counter to that would be a bad/irrelevant backlink that damages your site, which would be to link yourself to an article about sea turtles migration habits when you are still on the niche topic of ' exotic birds '...they are completely off point and therefore, count for the lowest backlink value.
Hope that helps give you a little more insight on backlinks.