What is the best way to generate Back Links?

You've already made up your mind, but I still can't resist correcting all these fallacies in your post because other people reading your post need this said.

Business is a numbers game, offline and online. Content is content and a link is a link. Nothing more, nothing less.

Are all ways of generating business created equal? No. If they were, where would be the fun in that?

Will your well-written content be seen without traffic and generate you traffic? Nope. Sure, you can spend money getting that traffic until enough people see your site and start getting the word out, but you're missing out on all that lovely passive traffic from ranking well in the search engines.

I don't know about you, but I like the luxury of going away from my computer knowing I'm still getting people to visit my websites without worrying about someone abusing my spend limit in PPC.

Is that's what's ruining the Internet? Really? Or is it people who know enough to be dangerous and not really caring about the footprint they leave behind because it's easy to get a few thousand links with their program so they fail to take some time and plan out their strategy enough to customize how they target sites to get links from?

I could say the same about people who refuse to accept that there are effective ways to build automated backlinks responsibly and that benefit everyone (take a gander through my posts in other threads and you'll find quite a few that'd change your mind).

I'm not really seeing your point. We live in an age that puts the global economy at everyone's fingertips. There's way too much for one person to do by themselves, not even a small business has enough resources to do business in it without automation.

Computer programs helping us perform our tasks is a necessity in today's world - nothing will change that. Yes, the human element has to be there, but there will always be a growing need to automate.

I'll explain this further while I address your other points.

Like anything, it's how you use it that makes the difference. Anything can be abused and misused, but that doesn't mean it's not a necessity.

Progression is the product of competition and innovation. That's not going to happen if the only people who are able to get business are those who have the deepest pockets and can afford the highest number of people to spread the word in the niche they're in.

If that were the case, then every small business would fail since they couldn't automate their redundant tasks or compete with the already established brands in the search engines.

Banks aren't lending money - I know, my local community has businesses closing right and left because bigger banks are not renewing the loans that were placed when they bought the smaller banks out. So startups and small businesses can't take out more loans to hire more people to spread the word online, let alone keep generating their same income without automation.

I've heard of the semantic web. It's one of those things that's nice in theory but will never fully happen. But again - if it ever stood a icecube's chance in Hell of succeeding it'd require automation to get everything labeled with appropriate meta data (because you can be sure that you and I aren't going to be typing all those tags for everything day-in and day-out).

So, how're those billion dollar ideas going to kick up enough dust to take off without the word being spread? I have a few, but there's no way it's going to get the venture capital funding if all their money is going to be spent hiring people to manually go out and tell people about it.

Nearly every VC wants only a small part of their budget to be spent on advertising until the project shows promise. So... we're back to automation to help get the word out.

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Anyway, you get the picture.

People don't have to abuse backlinking tools. It's just easier to screw up and abuse a method if they distance themselves from the "legwork".

I think you'd be surprised at how much of my content you're reading every day on sites around the net without realizing it's automated and find it quite informative and helpful. Just think about that.