sitemaker - 1:30 pm on Oct 15, 2007 (gmt 0)

Crush you are so wrong it's unbelievable

I pay no attention to PR and especially Alexa

Relevancy is everything, you just got to make sure your links are on the right pages ie.

1) Title tag containing relevant keywords
2) Relevant keywords in the url (but not so important)
3) The general theme of the site is better than just the theme of the page, but I still exchange links if just the page is relevant.
4) Outgoing links all pointing to similar topics, not pointing to off topic subjects
5) Pages with limited amount of links not 100's
6) Cached in Google, Sometimes I consider pages not cached and these still appear as backlinks within Google's Webmaster area.
7) I generally stay away from directory pages listed as /YourOnPage234of ThisCategory.php

Following this, I can get sites on the first page with just 2 or three backlinks meeting the criteria above.