Increase link popularity using link exchange programs

My revenue is starting to performs poor these days and Im wondering what can I do to further improve my site... then I checked my mailbox, and apart from spam mails I found one invition email from other website, much to my surprise they are requesting me to exchange links with her site. I accepted it of cuz and then start a little google research on "link exchange". There are qutie a lot of free link exchange service websites, I joined one at linkateer.com.

Link popularity means the number of incoming links pointing to your website. This is one of the criterical factor that rank the search results. If you are have link on website with high PageRank (PR4+), you will benefit from it and your ranking will boost.

so Im now trying to work on it. Added a link section on my first website which is a website which targeted at chinese translation. Requested a few translation websites for link exchange. And Im gonna add this to this blog.

I have also downloaded a PHP script which does the link management from phpjunkyard.com.
It is a nice script that handles link checking and make adding links easy. I modified a bit to fit my needs and Im using it in the link section of www.softbath.net already. Anyone would like to exchange link with me are welcome to give it a try~~