Originally Posted by nettrust

i've made pr3 in just two weeks on a blog. i didn't hastle so much about link exchange. it was last summer.
this site got pr4 on last update, so it's possible to get pr5 on this one.
as much as i know, google is taking care only about your out links, and inlinks are not your concern (unless they are all spam). do the maths: wordpress.org is 3 1/2 years old, and has 53mil inlinks. that's 42k/day, and it's not banned yet! :-)