Backlinks, SEO and more

So if you watch anything coming out of Google then you get the distinct impression that doing any SEO is bad however getting a decent rank on Google, Bing or Yahoo without any SEO is pretty much impossible. I decided to check around and see what kind of decent quality backlinks I could find. I was suprised that I was able to easily get backlinks from MTV, Google, Joomla and Good magazine pretty easily. What really added icing to the cake is the 4 of these are actually interesting to me so I won't just pick up a back link and never return. Anyhow here's a couple of them that I thought topped the list in interesting.

http://community.mtv.com/profile/carefree1
http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=607337
http://www.good.is/community/carefree1
http://profiles.google.com/111965573467485338171