The steps and method you have suggested is pretty basic and elementary and is mostly known to everybody...but you have a point in stating the fact that....people are probably hard pressed for time or simply lazy to go full ON, at it! People also need to be highly motivated to keep working at it, since with each passing day, more and more people are joining the race, making the job... lot more harder. Regards, RightMan
I agree with everything said here. But I wanted to add emphasis to the last suggestion: If all of your back links come from the same websites over and again, you are making it harder for Google to treat your website as a value destination. Diversity in linking is your friend.
I coulld say NO to that, alot of ppl don't really know how google works, some wud say relevant site, which doesnt really mater, as u said backlikns from same website, i made alot of research about big stores, they buy a link off non relevant site, and get more backlikns from the site with their anchor text, guess what they rank no 1 page 1 on google, and i dont see google say no to that tactics, which makes me think alot of ppl talk rubbish about relevancy or backlinks coming from same website