High authority sites get 200,000 backlinks and more.
They do this by building a solid brand.
I'm sure you can try to replicate this on a strictly numerical level through Web 2.0, PBNs, and tons of spun articles published on lots of user-generated content sites on the Internet.
You can also get links from profiles.
But a lot of these are no-follow links.
Many of these are low-quality links.
One of the fastest ways to get a tremendous number of backlinks fairly quickly is through press releases.
You have to find some sort of hook for the website that you're promoting.
This may include hot trends or late-breaking developments in your target niche or industry.
If you need a good example of how this is done, look at the history of OKCupid and Pornhub.
These are category killers in their respective industries, and they didn't come out of nowhere.
They issue press releases, and a lot of heavy-duty mainstream news sites started linking to them voluntarily.
That's how the game is played.
Once those sites link to you, other smaller sites start linking to you.
You can see the snowball effect because all of a sudden, you got millions of backlinks.
A lot of them are high-quality links to boot.
Do yourself a big favor.
You might want to explore press release-based SEO.
I'm not talking about the garbage press release SEO that's being sold on this and other forums.
Those are usually a waste of time.
I'm talking about actual newsworthy press releases.