Newcybertech has published a lengthly article by Asif Iqbal with several tips for executing link building campaigns.  Iqbal starts off with 5 common mistakes to avoid and then continues by stressing the importance of a link database in your link building campaign, and what types of metrics such a database should capture.  Read Iqbal's full article here.

Nick Wilson of Performancing.com has an excellent post filled with ways you can increase your traffic through linkbaiting, social bookmarking, copywriting and networking. His post is titled "3 Ways to Immediately Increase Your Search Engine Traffic", but that is somewhat of an understatement since the post contains well over a dozen solid pointers and is applicable to more than just search engine traffic. Read Wilson's post here.

On Graywolf's SEO Blog, Gray shares his advice for accumulating backlinks. Included are tips for contacting site owners, appropriately requesting links from them, and working on obtaining links from trusted sites. Ready Gray's tips here.

Enid Burns of ClickZ talks about the factors search engines use to determine the effect an inbound link will have on a site's position in the SERPs. Google, Yahoo and MSN are examined in turn for the relative weighting each places on the different factors. Read Burns article here.

Ever wonder how good a job the different search engines do at reporting inbound links for a site? Randfish of SEOmoz.org contrasts the various engines' capabilities in this area and provides the pros and cons of each. See his blog post for the full commentary.

Jim Boykin was surprised to discover almost half of respondents to his poll have never bought a text link. This prompted Jim to dig up some ideas on how to naturally attract backlinks without paying for them. Boykin cites five articles that provide good tips in the art of linkbaiting. Read his blog post here.