About the link building calculations

Link building is not enough for aplanned SEO approach. Rather we need a good count for the links totrack them and to understand and analyze their effects. There areseveral ways to calculate the outbound links. Apart from that, thereare also some tools both paid and non-paid, are there for countingthe links. Google but the know yourself in the title is not there? Doyou think it is possible to bring my domain on the topmost position?Is there a method of foolproof calculation? I am interested inlearning the part where I would calculate.