Remember, link growth can get you penalized if google spots too many new inbound links at once. Penalties vary, from outright bans to 'minus' penalties where your domain is penalized a specific number of spots in the results.
The others are absolutely right about content still being king. Slow and steady. Sign
up for webmasterworld.com and check out the Google forums there. Lots of rubbish with great info too. Make sure your inbound links vary the link text. Latent semantic indexing is growing in importance. The old days of keywords 1 and 2 in the link text, page title, h1 tag, meta tag etc are going bye bye. For every keyword phrase you target, google has got a list of statistically likely to occur other phrases, and part of your relevance depends on that...
Motion, please feel free to pm me as well with any Qs on ppc/
seo/general sem stuff.