Backlinks without content

Well, not initially. I would agree that getting a link from a boring, plain old Web 2.0 page is hardly anything impressive. Since most people use them as 'glorified' articles, yeah they are worthless in that sense.

But so is a piece of steal before it is made into a sword.

As far as I can tell, Web 2.0's are some of the most promising properties to get links from currently with the advent of new tools like RankWYZ and FCS networker.

There are some extremely authoritative web 2.0 blogs out there, with plenty of PR - so it's easily demonstrated that WEB 2.0's gather PR as easily as any other page or set of pages.

Using the two tools mentioned above you can control 1000's of individual domains for very little in terms of investment and despite them not having significant individual PR, when networked together building PR3 and PR4 domains and pages is nearly automatic.

Of course, unless Google starts updating the PR more regularly that will be much harder to demonstrate effectively in the future - so I'm speaking from purely a historical point of view.

My point is that they aren't as worthless as other links because of how well they can be manipulated along with the fact that currently there are tools finally being made public that put that ability into the average user's hands.

There will still be a knowledge gap that people will have to overcome to get to that point - none the less, writing them off as worthless isn't completely accurate in my book.

But they aren't for everyone.

I'm not debating you Yukon, just saying there's another side to the coin.

It's true that you won't get any traffic from the web2.0, but it does help ranking. If the domain on which your subdomain web2.0 property is created has a high PR of say 9 like wordpress the trust from the domain flows through to your website, the url itself will have no PR but residing on a high PR domain counts. Using relevant content also counts. I use Majestic SEO for my backlink analysis because they are a search engine in itself therefore the backlink data is pretty accurate. It shows how much citation and trust flow a backlink gives you from the domain it resides on and from the url. These web2.0 properties I create are also optimized for my main keyword and also ranks in Google, yet lower than my actual page ofcourse. For example one of my sites ranks #3 on the first page, and I got two web2.0 properties ranking on page 3, one on page 4, 2 on page 7 etc.

I also build backlinks to these web2.0 properties to rank them higher and to boost their Page PR(not domain) to atleast 1. The link juice from the backlinks pointing to these web2.0's flows through to my website.

The most powerful backlink is a backlink coming from a High PR Page(not domain except if homepage) with relevant content that also ranks high on Google.

What is your understanding of the most powerful backlink or a quality backlink? And how do you go about getting them, please share...