You hit the nail right in the head pointing out that a consistent promotion campaign is indispensable for seeing any difference in your rankings and traffic. Although the post was written almost three years ago, it’s accurate.

As you mentioned, there are two major categories for betting back links, namely:

1. submission sites and
2. linking partners.

For those interested, I compiled a concise guide on building backlinks where I go into more details on how to tackle each of the two backlink sources pointed above. Here’s the path:

http://trafficcpanel.com/773/definitive-10-step-strategy-to-link-building/

I hope it’s helpful in your promotion!

Cheers,
Cristian

Thanks