hello you are absolutly right wiseman. i agree with you software cane make fast work but google will make that spammy backlinks. So create quality backlinks and get up for rankings.
Really the forum posting,bookmarking is the best way to getting quality backlinks and website traffic well and definietly increase the visitors for your site.
Backlinks are incoming links to a website or web page. A back link is an inward link to your site that may or may not be reciprocated with an outward link back. If page A links to page B then a back link would be a link which goes from page B back to page A.Backlinks are also known as incoming links, inbound links, inlinks, and inward links.
Backlinks takes time, if you try and get too many backlinks in a short amount fo time, the search engine might assume you are spamming and may penalise your site
maximum number of BL? there's no maximum number for BL for maximum value, create BL from high PR domains with a do follow relations and also need link juice
The more the better, but in a sensible and a logical way. Just for your information Google has more than 1 billion site wide back links, Yahoo has about half billion. Source: yahoo site explorer.