Why is my Page not ranking in Google?

Well, I may have discovered the issue with what make a page rank high in the serps. It seems that it is due to a combination of pages indexed and backlinks. For instance, if you have 100k indexed pages, then your backlinks can suck. But if you have only 10 indexed pages, then you need to have high quality, relevant backlinks. If you have them both, then what are you reading this for?