How to add top link in via custom module

Question

How to Add top link after "My Wishlist". The link should be visible on activating my custom module.I'm using Magento 1.9. I added the following

   <reference name="top.links"> 
      <action method="addLink" translate="label title" module="mymodule"> 
           <label>My Link</label> 
           <url helper="mymodule/quote/history/"/> 
           <title>My Link</title> 
           <prepare>true<prepare/> 
           <position>2</position> 
       </action> 
   </reference>

Answer 1

You can do this by (This is my complete module's layout file):

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<layout version="0.1.0">
    <default>
     <reference name="top.links">
            <action method="addLink" translate="label title">
                <label>Custom Home Link</label>
                <url>home</url>
                <title>Custom Home Link</title>
                <prepare/>
                <urlParams/>
                <position>10</position>
            </action>
        </reference>
        </default>    
</layout>

Answer 2

Please add this local.xml or any other module xml over fronted layout folder.

 <default>
        <!-- Mage_Customer -->
        <reference name="top.links">
            <action method="addLink" translate="label title" module="customer"><label>My Account</label><url helper="customer/getAccountUrl"/><title>My Account</title><prepare/><urlParams/><position>10</position></action>
        </reference>
    </default>

Also you can follow below links for the same.

URL : http://excellencemagentoblog.com/blog/2011/09/07/magento-add-top-links-in-magento/