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Hi,
Backlinks from websites related to your niche can help you rank for the reputed position and helps your website to get targeted traffic.

Relying on Google for your sites Traffic is a good thing if you really know what Google needs. As far as I know no one knows what Google wants except Google. Yes, there are many Gurus and Books, teaching that link building and the other strategies will help your site catapult to the first page overnight if you can just follow it the way they do it.

It might have worked out for them and it may still be working well for them, but that depends on many criteria. Criteria that you most consider when following their strategies.

The age of the site
Number of visitors
The niche, etc.

Let's look at an example:

A Guru with an aged domain having thousands of visitors to his site, can flush that sites with hundreds of backlinks and Google will look at the link building as natural because it took into consideration the criteria I just mentioned above. At the end ranks a page within minutes or weeks. Well, if a newbie with a new Domain and little or no traffic start following the very steps of flushing his site with that number of links Google will place them where they belong Spam.

If you ask me that is a fine line to work through when building a sustainable business of your own.

I would recommend looking for your own traffic using other traffic strategies and when your site starts receiving interaction from your site Google will start playing catch up and that is when you win on both sides. I do not know if that makes sense, but that is my 5 cent contribution and I hope it did in some way answer your question.