tedster - 7:24 am on Aug 1, 2007 (gmt 0)

I know of one site that has been very succesful at link building -- successful to the point of showing SiteLinks for a generic search term. The home page ranks #1 for several other diverse keywords as well.

Two employees there work the link acquisition process full time, and together they only get about 20 total new inbounds per month! But I'll tell you, that backlink profile is beautiful, and there's no junk except for the scrapers that everyone gets (but that don't hurt this site one bit.)

There is no easy or mechanized process that will accomplish this. It's a highly personalized, one-on-one, skilled research and communications effort -- and it's coupled with very intelligent content development. It requires real dedication and passion to do this well.