How exactly do you build traffic to a linklist?

[Cleo]

I often give up a sponsor banner spot on the stuff that I build in order to advertise my link list. Seems to send it a lot of traffic. Other then that I also do traffic trades. I use a traffic script, but mostly I just use its top list function, I do not skim my link list at all. I also have a really old top list that still sends traffic to my link list.