Getting backlinks from .EDU sites are nothing short of gold for your Page Rank and Google Love. If you do it right, you can get great backlink juice.
Google loves unique ONE way backlinks and ofcourse from the same niche for any website. If you can try and get some backlinks even by commenting in some good authority sites or blogs of your niche, that would be great.
Relevant links from quality (authority) pages and sites, that are highly relevant to your own site and to the linked content.
They don't have to be relevant. As long as they're from Authority websites; profile backlinks, blog backlinks, etc., then Google will love them.
High Traffic website and do follow back link loves Google. and text should be reliant with your text.
The best type of link has the following characteristics: a) Uses an keyword anchor text that matches a keyword on your destination page. b) Comes from a highest Page ranked page. c) Is a "Do Follow" link e) The source page rank has many other incoming links with the same keyword as in a) f) Has IP C class diversity - get one link from one site, not many links from the same site. g) The source link is not from a bad neighborhood. h) Is permanent and not deleted or archived after sometime. i) The source page has unique content. j) The source page has low number of outgoing links. If your link has all the above characteristics - then it is what I call a PLATINUM LINK This will give you the maximum boost in your ratings.
youngworks has a good list Authority sites can be .gov or high Alexa ranked sites (such as MSN, Adobe etc) and from a high ranking page as well The best type of backlink is dofollow anchor text embedded in a relevant article from such a site
I think Google loves those types of backlinks that are relevant to our niche and of course having a good PR and popularity in the Google search.
Google consider Quality links. You need to build quality back links from some standard SEO sources. Links from theme based sites will be more helpful.
Links from relevant sites are very much helpful especially those with high PR, also authority sites links, to help with traffic forum signatures and article submissions are also great.