This site - http://www.freebets-nodeposit.com/ Is ranking number one for some extremely competitive keywords and has only been building links since mid august. I doubt the site will stay at the top long term as the trust flow seems so low and link profile pretty spammy so this is a 'rank and bank' site in my opinion. Anyways my question is, does anyone know how this guy generated the links from 1,600 domains over such a short period of time? I would like to experiment with this but I'm not quite sure how he's doing it...
above website owner only do promotional activities like : blog commenting, comment posting, viral links and etc.
You can get ranking without link building as well. On-page optimization, content within the site are very important factors today. If your site is receiving traffic due to its existing brand name, it will work for link building.
Agreed with you alex. onpage content is one of the most important factor for SERP. Good and fresh content with specific keywords will definitely give page a high rank.