What is an Etiologic Content Linking Strategy?

An Etiologic content linking strategy is...
An etiologic approach to link building looks at the citation potential for content, and most importantly, speeds the process of attracting the most germane and trustworthy citations, aka links. This approach works only for meritorious content. Etiologic linking is about content integrity, merit, worth, cause, and effect.

An Etiologic content linking strategy is not...
An etiologic content linking strategy does not use fake, engineered, automated or mass tactics that anyone can implement for any site.

Is an etiologic approach to link building and content publicity effective? 
Yes, but don't take my word for it, read below, then see for yourself.