Doing a link campaign the disciplined and organized way is definitely the way to go. You can enhance it a little bit further, however:
Try to find a broken link on the page you are submitting to, and mention this in your e-mail.
Instead of just saying, “Please add my link”, you might say “Please add my link. BTW, the link pointing to xxx is broken”. Being helpful like this can somewhat increase the chance of your link being accepted.
On the other hand, it serves as a control, too. If you don’t get any reply to your submission, and the broken link is still there, it’s “No response” in your Excel-table. With no reply, but the broken link fixed, it’s “Link denied“.
(To make it more efficient, concentrate on checking www.example.com/subthis/~subthat/jsmith.html kind of links first. Those, especially if added several years ago, are much more likely to be not working than www.example.com type links.)
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