As I discussed in “Inbound Links-How to Woo” , inbound links are an important factor in the rank of a website. But an important factor of that important factor is the anchor text of the link. 
Anchor text is the keyword or phrase that users click on to enter your site. For example, in “Expert SEO [...]

 
Inbound links are links from pages on other websites that link back to your site. Inbound links are one of the factors that search engines consider when assigning your website a rank and in their view (algorithm) it is definitely quality over quantity. Even if your website has 6000 links but 5999 are spam and [...]