Frequently, I see many friends mention the term "competing with backlinks." What does it mean to compete with backlinks? If someone has one hundred backlinks and I have two hundred, can I rank ahead of them just because of that? Zik believes this notion is incorrect, but there are indeed many examples of people trying to "out-backlink" each other.
During the search engine's calculation process, there are numerous variables involved in determining the final score, and backlinks are just one of those factors...