How to improve Link Popularity?

One of the most important thing about bulid a site, is backlink,inbound links, then link popularity, if u had great website but no one know about it, however u'r site will be had a poor visitor.

It's really hard to find other site that had a backlink to us,i try free backlink site, now i had almost 1031, and don't know is it link farm or what?/ So for your information, here is the tips, that i found in widexl.com, :

First of all stay away from link farms, free for all links and similar schemes. They don't help you with your PageRank. You have a bigger change that your site get banned from the search engines than that you receive a PageRank boost.

1. Get listed in the internet directories (Yahoo, DMoz). One of the most important things is that you are listed in Open Directory Projects. There are many directories on the internet try to add your link in so many directories if you can, they are great recourses for incoming visitors.

2. Ask other website owners to link to you. A great way to find other website owners who are maybe willing to link to you is to do a link popularity check on one of your competitors. These sites are most of the time in the same topic as you.

3. Swap links with other website owners. Swapping links with other website owners is also useful for to boost your link popularity. The theory goes that you add a link to a website and they are adding a link to your site. One important thing is that a link ranks higher if the sites are in the same topic.