Content is KING! That's what I've been hearing and reading on SEO blogs lately. All the algorithm changes highly encourages for high quality contents for website to rank high on SERPS. Guest blogging are still as effective as before, but this time only quality websites are considered to offer the best result for increasing search engine rankings.

Based on facts, a survey conducted by SEO analysts, pertaining to the most effective link building tactic for this 2014. People involved are SEO experts, practitioner, business owner (marketing and non-marketing), and SEO manager. Here is the outcome of the result:

91= content+outreach

54 = infographic

47 = broken link building

32 = local citations/business directories

25 = resource pages

19 = paid links

13 = translating exisiting content

6 = competitions/giveaways

6 = video submissions

6 = press release submisisons

6 = blog network

6 = guest post

Many online businesses today are said to be investing greatly in link building and most SEO experts like seoexpertpage.com are giving a great deal focus on this strategy.

Yes agree with you guys "citation" is the best way to build high quality backlinks

Yahoo Answers, Forum Commenting, Infographics Submission and submitting articles on high pr article directories are the most powerful link building techniques in 2014.

Well in this era of 2014 the link building is getting tougher every day.

I recommend you the focus on branding rather just flooding spammy links on web, Google always supports Branding.

- Citation building is best way to build Quality links.

- Days are gone when blog commenting or forum or other tasks were there.

- Focus on Quality content give people a reason to reach you.

- HARO ( Is Another best by to build links)

- Broken link building is future of SEO atleast in 2014

I'm pasting a link below to complete guide to link building

Link building, citation building, blog posting Social media marketing is the best process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the "natural" or un-paid ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results - essay writing services reviews

This link building method has been debated upon by SEOs. Blog commenting used to be one clean linkbuilding game. Now, with the serious number of black hat SEOs and commenting softwares, blog commenting is generally frowned upon as a linkbuilding method. Most blogs have nofollowed blog comment links which makes any link that you build in their site useless when it comes to passing out page rank.

According to me citation is one of the best strategy in 2014 and outreach of links on high PR and authoritative sites is one of the most useful technique.