Link Strategies
Linking is a long term strategy…
With several months between search engine data center updates (terabytes of data being aggregated until that can happen) you have to think in months and years, not weeks.
That requires a good long term strategy – read about some issues.
The best possible SEO strategy at the moment are presell pages – pages of marketing content (advertorial) placed on old authority websites – REALLY improving traffic your traffic on Google these days.