Hey,
I have the same problem, I think that you need to buy links only from places where people will actually click on them. I guess that google decided to make anchor text less important because they now have the ability to analyze your website better and to determine the relevant words to assign to your website, for displaying it on the SERPs. Any thoughts?

Well In My Opinion, First of All You Should Came up with Solid On Page with Structured URL and Unique Content! After Completing On Page, Focus on Qualitative Link Building Campaigns Relevant To Your Niche! Perform Content Oriented Manual Link Building Instead of Bulk Link Building!

Link building is exactly the same as its always been just focus on quality instead of quantity. For example in the past you could use Senuke or something similar and just blast tons of web 2.0's at your money site. Now you don't need as many links to rank since the SERP's have been "cleaned up" so build less web 2.0's but make them somewhat quality. Use unique content on them instead of spun, add some videos and pictures. Thats just one example.

yeah you need to focus on getting backlinks that are not spammy and from legit sites. It's really not that much of a mystery. The new algorithm update from google talks about this in great length. So yea getting links from quality sites that are not spammed to death by anchor tags and crappy content will work fine.

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I actually like the new update! SEOing is more quality now, which is weeding out the spammers =)