" If you have to pick the top three strategies for developing links out there, inbound links, back links you have the articles, are there one or two other favorite methods that you have?

Again it depends on where the site is but if it is a brand new site, certainly want to hit major directories.

Submissions to directories?

Yeah, submissions to directories and that build a good pace. You certainly want to find relevant sites that have similar content and you know are similar in what they are doing and try and pull the ones out that you may have some sort of relationship or contact with as opposed to you know, I hate the swap linked type letters. "