Thanks everyone!
I have been participating in SBI!'s value exchange and my link popularity (which I guess is an SBI! term?) jumped from 16 to 30, but I haven't seen an increase in my traffic. I guess I'm getting a little discouraged
I'll start to work on some one-way links too. Are articles good for building one way links? As in writing articles and submitting them to ezinearticles and sites like that?