How Many Links Does it Take to catapult your site?

How Many Links Does it Take?
The actual number of links it takes to catapult your website to the top of the search engine returns depends on the amount of competition your site is up against. Typically, however, most webmasters will find, unless in an extremely competitive topic or niche, that around 20 trusted backlinks will result in the high rankings you are looking for.
PageRank, which really is just the final calculation based on everything the search engines look at, and reflects search engine “trustworthiness,” is a sum of the following factors:

• Well-crafted, relevant content that piques a site visitor’s interest, holds it, and delivers the important information they are searching for in a compelling way
• Strong headlines that are enticing and prompt the reader to read the page’s content, while simultaneously enticing the search engines

Nobody knows the exact amount of links that you will needed to get into the top rank, however you will need to double your hard work if the competition level of your site to other sites are higher.

What I do is find out how many backlinks my main competitors have, and the PR of the backlinks and then try to use that as a base. So if I knew a competitor had 1500 backlinks at PR 3 I would then try and get 1700 backlinks at PR4

It despond upon the competition. You have to have more back links then your competitors. Then your site will be rated well on search engine

It also depends on quality!! If your competitor has 1000 PR7 backlinks and you have 1100 PR2 backlinks then the competitor will win as they have QUALITY backlinks

I agree with Jack the Flipper. The quantity of backlinks is useless if you have built backlinks in low PR sites. That's why, it is indeed necessary to build backlinks on High PR sites prior to getting some from low PR sites.

It would be hard to out rank a competitor with 1200 PR7 links, but then again if your on site seo is optimised extremely well, your domain is an exact match keyword, and you have interesting UNIQUE content anythig is possible in this day an age

UNIQUE content and backlinks are the key , i'm trying to get more and more backlink for my magento tamplates website