mfishy - 5:48 pm on Jun 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

I would go for 3001 links or pick another field. Popularity rules in all search engines.

You either have to have a site that naturally attracts tons of "votes" or stuff the ballot box. The links are relevant and on theme simply because of the anchor text. Anyone who says otherwise is simply mistaken - but you know this as you just said they rank #1 with all off topic links...

Note: I am certainly not saying that all links are created equally as they are not. Rather that competing with a site that has, say 10x more links than you is very, very difficult.