Originally Posted by daedal

Because of the way Page Rank works its not always the number that matters. 1 Link from a PR9 site will give you a great page rank. 1000 links from other sites won't.

For my blogs. I list in around 20 directories, do maybe 10 link trades and that's it. They generally get a pagerank of 1-3 when google updates. If they have a rank already, add them to non reciprocal directories and maybe 5 more link trades and they normally jump an extra pagerank.

There is no secret formula, its always the quality of the link. If you are not going to do quality links then its quantity and thats why some people have a pagerank 2 blog with thousands of inlinks.