I have found many websites leave their link on low ranking forums and they rank high.Is this matter your backlinking website must have high rank then yours.
I think the most important thing is backlink with similar niche, you can exchange links with TaobaoGuides which is a online shopping tips website has the similar niche with blackfriday but it is a new website.
you can try this free backlink maker tool. http://www.seogape.com/backlink-maker I hope this will help you to get rank.
Just beware on this free backlink maker tool because in first it will benefit you lots of backlinks but later on it will fade due to low quality sites.
Exactly, Kylie is right. The tools for backlinks usually invite troubles in the long run. And, besides, it's rather impossible to get quality backlinks through them. In the end, you have to go where your targeted traffic is, and you've to leave quality comments there or submit a guest post. This is one of the simplest ways to get targeted traffic or build quality links.