How Many Links Does it Take to catapult your site?

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