Hello Readers,
In this blog, I’m going to show you the correct way to add an extra link to the existing top links section under Account.
Existing top links are: My Cart, My Account, Checkout, My Wishtlist, Login etc
These Top-links are managed in magento through layout xml files, See the below image.

Top Links=> Above top links are coming from different layout xml files.

My Account & login: these link is found in the customer.xml file.
My Cart and Checkout: are coming from checkout.xml
My Wishlist: is coming from wishlist.xml

Add New Link To The Existing Top Links

Suppose i need to add a new link for a CMS page called Contact Us. To do this open a layout file, let say customer.xml and add the below code:

<default>
<reference name="top.links">
  <action method="addLink" translate="label title">
    <label>Contact Us</label>
    <url>contacts</url>
    <title>Contact</title>
    <prepare>true</prepare>
    <position>2</position>
  </action>
</reference>
</default>

The above code is correct way to add new link.

Output: