Whiteboard Friday - site-level mutual and directory links

Create link sucks. I know you know it, everyone knows. It can be slow, painful and hard. It is also one of the most important aspects of comprehensive search engine optimization. as the challenge for extensive links create? At a time when your website to hundreds of good markets directories (or a few thousand as both "SEO" $ 99 business offer) could have submitted perform dozens of mutual links from sites with decent PageRank and perhaps even negotiate a keyword-related nice, link in the footer of a reasonably popular blog .Bing bang-boom, have hundreds of links with the super-optimized anchor text...Hellooooo ranking!