I never knew tht statcounter has a good pr. Thanx a lot for the info. Btw, nofollow links are also needed in backlink building as only dofollow links may create suspension to google! Cus they dont look natural!!
According to this "authority" article: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/17-ways-search-engines-judge-the-value-of-a-link :"An obvious one for those in the SEO business, anchor text is one of the biggest factors in the rankings equation overall, so it's no surprise it features prominently in the attributes of a link that engines consider." The point here is to build a few backlinks from some sites with very high PR. Normally you would have to pay some money for this, but these backlinks are free - and one way. SEO experts seem to agree on that "HTML links with standard anchor text pass the most value, followed by image links with keyword-rich alt text..."