Link Building is terribly overestimated on these forums

Link building requires perfection, accuracy, and dedication and sound efforts to make it successful. No doubt that it is most difficult and time consuming job that a user do to rank its website among top ten websites by powerful search engine ratings. There are lots of strategies of link building that are common to SEOs but there are some advance link building strategies that can really help your website to get top ranking by the search engines.

 

I kind of don't like the artificial backlinking for higher PR (seems not very ethical and high chances to get penalized) . However artificial backlinking will give me some direct visitors, so I can't avoid it either. On the other side of the coin it's hard to get visitors just by content now a days, the competition is very steep. But this is how the whole world works, if you are not strong enough your going to extinct. Always there are less people on top of the pyramid and more on the bottom.

 

don't fully agree with OP, link building definately has big value if done right