Thanks all. I found that though the volume of backlinks are low you should note that the quality of them are outstanding. There is one site samtrams.com which is a 7. Google is not displaying all of their links to the site, but there is more than one of their pages linking in. Goes to show 1 or two pr7 linking to you is worth way more than a 1,000 crappy ones. The best part is the owner did not pay for the link...it was voluntary.
Good Job.. Now you just have to come to terms with the fact that PR is worthless except charging morons who care about PR more for their link.
Actually PR does have value, but unfortunately for me this particular sites PR has no value to me other than saying I manage it. The site is basically a static info site for the owners auction company. If you are confused about how Google PR works here is a link: http://www.google.com/technology/ The morons you refer to I believe might have one up on you if they purchase their text link or banner ads wisely. Buying ad space on a high traffic, high pr site could bring tons of excellent visitors to your own site. I know I wouldn't buy ad space from a pr0-2 regardless of claimed traffic.
No secret for this site. Here are the basic steps I took to make this site a PR7, and the value it has to me. Step 1. Register the site in 1999. Having an old domain, and having it registered for for years to go, I think has little effect. It was a PR5 till just a few months ago. Step 2. Little to no SEO. Wasn't paid to do it, didn't care if it got it, end of story. By the way...the site gets about 27 visitors a day from google. That is crap. PR value? Step 3. Back links. Again, my job was not to promote this site just build it. I did not work on back links. The owner of the company did get a few companies to back link with none in return so that is good. When I say few I mean 3 or 4 companies. The big kicker...and I think this is all you really need to know is that 1 of those companies was a goverment agency, and has a PR 7. It also had more than 1 page linking to the site. Both pages are pr7. So...I would say the best thing you can do is work on getting high quality links to your site instead of just a thousand crappy ones, and if you want a lot of google traffic work on SEO. My site APopularityContest.com is a PR4 is 10 months old, and it gets over a 100 hits a day from Google. That number has also been going up every week.
Google PR-7 with only 2-back links? Only 19 pages index by google and Alexa rank is: 1,4718795.. Amazing!!! Please tell me the secret also. Any ways congrats....