PR and backlinks

I have way less backlinks but..

[mattlamb]

I have way less backlinks than my competition ie 84 - 400+ they have a way higher PR (me 5 they 7) than me and yet I always show before them .
Is this common? if so then backlinks dont seem to me to be as important as I have been lead to understand by many posts on this forum.

Seems to me for all the Algo talk if you have a few good backlinks and keep it clean and have your keywords in the title and body you are 90% on target.

Matt
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[edited by: ciml at 4:24 pm (utc) on Mar. 11, 2003]
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[korkus2000]

PR is just one factor of the algo. Many people put too much weight on PR. PR does help but it must be used with the other weighting factors. Some people believe that having a PR6 will make the site successful. There are so many more factors.

Here is a good thread on weighting.
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