Ahmed Bilal in his Life and Marketing Blog writes:

"The right links will check all the boxes that make up an ideal link - they will be from relevant sources and pass PR, trust and authority to your website.  However, some elements of trust and authority can only be earned over time. Your links will need to age, your domain name will also need to age.  Do not let this deter you in acquiring quality links. Rather, use this as an incentive - the earlier you get those big-hitting links, the quicker they will mature and help you get those top rankings...[more]."

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Relevant linking for search engine succes from Google Webmaster Guidelines:

"Following these guidelines will help Google find, index, and rank your site. Even if you choose not to implement any of these suggestions, we strongly encourage you to pay very close attention to the "Quality Guidelines," which outline some of the illicit practices that may lead to a site being removed entirely from the Google index or otherwise penalized. If a site has been penalized, it may no longer show up in results on Google.com or on any of Google's partner sites.  Design, content, and technical guidelines.  Quality guidelines for when your site is ready...[more from Webmaster Guidelines]"

Andy Hagans from his Link Building Blog writes:

My recently published article, 101 Ways to Build links, shows that you have many, many link building tactics at your disposal. For any given website, you probably need to use at least a few dozen link building different tactics over the course of a year or more to rank for anything remotely competitive.

One thing I didn't mention in the article, though, was that for a brand new site you need to build certain types of links first. Why? Thank TrustRank/the sandbox. To even get fully indexed (now that we have sandbox crawling), let alone ranked, you'll need to get the domain some trust right off the bat, and this is only going to happen by building certain types of links in a certain way. OK, so what is "certain types of links in a certain way"? Basically, we need trusted links to happen first, and then a "natural growth curve". Want specifics?...[more]"

This Squidoo Lens on SEO/SEM and Linking is a courtesy of Joe and Colleen Lane, "The Lane Real Estate Team." Our business is in Tri-Cities Wa real estate, serving Kennewick Wa real estate, Richland Wa real estate, and Pasco Wa real estate and surrounding communities.