If you had one question for Matt Cutts ...

[Blogmaster]

... and he would be forced to give an honest answer, what would that question be?

[Jim4767]

Originally Posted by Blogmaster

... and he would be forced to give an honest answer, what would that question be?

I would ask, "Matt, tell me, what are the three best things I can do increase my search engine rankings?"

[pctec]

"Why Matt, why did my site receive a PR8?"

[Blogmaster]

Originally Posted by Jim4767

I would ask, "Matt, tell me, what are the three best things I can do increase my search engine rankings?"

1) Buy good links.
2)


$off the record of course$

[WallaceYeung]

Can I buy links on your blog?

[Blogmaster]

Originally Posted by WallaceYeung

Can I buy links on your blog?

He wouldn't have to lie to tell you no.

[moneymaster]

What is the Google algorithm?

lol

[Patricianian]

Nice topic indeed

However, will ask him to give us all the truth ...

Matt, What is the onr 'hidden' factor to rank my website in Google...

WITHOUT: Building Quality Backlinks nor Adding Unique Content --> BUT still getting ranked for tens of keywords

[Blogmaster]

Originally Posted by Patricianian

Nice topic indeed

However, will ask him to give us all the truth ...

Matt, What is the onr 'hidden' factor to rank my website in Google...

WITHOUT: Building Quality Backlinks nor Adding Unique Content --> BUT still getting ranked for tens of keywords

I think that you can get some substantial traffic without too many backlinks if you target all of the massloads of keyphrase variations applicable to your niche.

[astounded]

Originally Posted by Blogmaster

I think that you can get some substantial traffic without too many backlinks if you target all of the massloads of keyphrase variations applicable to your niche.

There's probably some truth to this actually. I'd never really thought of it like that before. You'd still need to have a few backlinks though of course.

[Blogmaster]

Originally Posted by astounded

There's probably some truth to this actually. I'd never really thought of it like that before. You'd still need to have a few backlinks though of course.

Yes absolutely. When I started my Costa Rica site, I had backlinks from a signature in a Costa Rica forum, so I do not know how well it would have worked without that. But I only had like 30 posts in that forum, and after only 2 weeks got something like 300 uniques daily from about 300 different keyphrases I got Google traffic from on a monthly basis.

I didn't rank for any really tough terms yet, but the amount of content allowed me to rank for all sorts of terms which people are using, but nobody was specifically targeting.

[lycos]

What are all the factors that determine google search engine ranking.