The noob guide to linkbuilding (2012)

If you're new to whitehat SEO and had enough of reading obsolete and blackhat-in-a-whitehat-disguise stuff you should check out the link below. It has a slant that corresponds to a good mindset to develop: for the long term you want to become an online publisher, and whitehat SEO is one of the techniques you may use to get traffic to your web properties.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-noob-guide-to-link-building