Inspired by Paul's post about quality links, I thought it might be worth swapping some ideas on less 'standard' ways to get links.

The one I remember reading about which really made me laugh was Peter Van der Graaf and the University of Calcutta Professor Bukk@ke website (professor of facial dermatology). If you don't remember that one its well worth searching and having a read.

I also found this a year or two ago and have never got around to doing it yet, but its so simple that you kick yourself for not having thought of it anyway http://www.polepositionmarketing.com/seo-sem/link-building-secrets/maurizio-petrone.php - basically if you have a site with images well ranked in image search, it details two methods to 'encourage' hotlinkers to give you a decent link in return for using your images. Obviously neither method is 100% but if you happen to get a lot of hotlinking it could be a reasonable source of free links in the right niche I reckon.

Anyone else have some inspiration to share?

Only someone elses - this is a 2009 list, I still think it's not a bad starting point.

http://wiep.net/talk/link-building/link-building-strategies/

definately worth a read

41 - tweet about posts you have written reminds me - easiest way to get retweets for literally no effort appears to be to advertise a job and tweet it, if you have industry followers they retweet all over the place.

I had an open source project that got literally thousands of links of the course of four years.  Giving something away for free is a great way to get some attention.

www.uniquearticlewizard.com

ignore the American scammy homepage, this is a great tool which is working really well across the board for us at the minute. I highly recommend

Takes about 2 hours to set up a link building campaign, trim half hour/hour off if you can get someone to write the articles

It has some clever spinning methods, so make use of diversifying anchor text

Was that the really small linux LM?

http://www.seobook.com/learn-seo/collateral-damage.php

Good work Aaron. Embed Thos infographic.