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You answered your own question with your second sentence. A simple fact is that you are soliciting advice from people who are either regurgitating crap they read (usually the same d recycled myths) or that are trying to sell something.... and no one is going to give you a concrete definition of "trust" and what to do to get it, because they can't. It's just one more vague, completely undefined concept used by people who don't know to convince suckers they do.
What is a backlink? It's a citation. It's a link to the source or an authority on that topic. Doesn't it stand to reason that high quality sites or enough volume of sites, linking to you signals that you are legit? This is and always has been the very foundation of most seat engine algorithms. PageRank, TrustRank etc are just formulas to determine the value of inbound links and the accumulated value on your page is in large part what determines the legitimacy of the info on that page. I'm not saying it's the only factor but it is by far, the most important and first signal.
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