Google uses an algorithm to determine a page’s rank, the pages are ranked from 1 to 10. It would be better if the higher the page is rank. Authority sites are sites with a PR7 and above and a back link from them will send Google’s spider to your page on a regular basis.
A few ways to get back link to your site such as emailing a request to the Webmaster for a link exchange. If accept, you would place a link to their site on your page. Another way is to purchase the link which some sites offer for a monthly fee. It would be well worth by paying for a PR8 back link in the long run to quickly get your site listed by Google and other major search engines,
One back link from a PR8 site is worth hundreds of back links from PR2 or less sites. As a matter of fact, numerous links from low ranking sites will actually be detrimental to your site. Each back link is like a vote for your site. If you have too many low ranking sites voting for yours, Google will be reluctant to reward your site with a higher
PR. You have to do your research on the site that offers to link to yours because if they were blacklisted by Google, your site will receive the same fate and you probably will never recover from this.
For best results, the best bet is to limit your back links to PR5 and above. And by all means avoid link farms. Before Google upgraded its algorithm, just the number of back links was considered.