Do the same and continue what you are doing now.Try to comment more do follow blogs/websites.Google will never disappoint you if you are doing everything on right track.
Thanks for the advice, I will as soon as I can (have to have 10 posts before you are able to have a signature)
your all back link will be counted but google shows very few, once u enter your domain in search engine then u get all links
it is good to ping where the links are to speed things up, but I've been told Google is not reliable to check for backlinks. Check with yahoo and see what shows up.
So I have links but I am still not getting ranked... what other things should I be looking to improve to achieve ranking?
Thanks for the reply! No other factors to look at? Maybe something with my website construction or keyword placement that is especially critical to ranking?
Actually Google webmaster tools shows total number of backlinks to all the site pages. It will also let you download sample of url's that link to your specific page. Yahoo site explorer will only show 1000 links but Google will let you download important links in excel format to your computer. So, I recommend using Google webmaster tools instead of yahoo site explorer. Yahoo site explorer is good for checking backlinks to other sites that you don't control.
I think you can continually to give your sites hight quality backlink... few high backlink will slove your problem until your domain get older