I've heard that 1 or 2 links from authority sites will boost your rank quite quickly because they hold a lot more weight to them. Is that true? Any of you had similar experience on this?
? can you elaborate? the best sites to have linking to yours have always been and will always be .gov sites.
Yes, this is true. I have tested this and found it to work beautifully. As far as .Gov sites go, there is a PR 7 Do Follow .Gov site in my signature.
I got a pr5 .gov link for one of my clients. They wanted him to be a sponsor at an event (which he was going to do anyway) and I told him to ask for a link, which he got. It was and still is a nice boost 4 years later!