Is it possible to get well ranked without backlinks?

So what do you think?
Is it possible to get well ranked in google, yahoo, msn without backlinks?
Only with great in-page optimization?

Please give arguments.

 

Yes.

If you optimize your webpage for the keyword 'woloopimeshgnomadious', I'm sure you will rank number one with no backlinks

What I'm saying, is it all comes down to how competitive your target keyword is.

 

I dont think it is easy to get pagerank without any backlinks according to my knowledge more acklinks +good content and keywords usage = well ranked site .

 

I think it also depends on the SE. I was ranking well on my sites in a somewhat non-competitive market right away on MSN. Google, on the other hand, took time for the domain to age and me building backlinks.

 

it's not possible to rank withouy backlinks.

all of the search engines loves backlinks

 

hi

it's not possible to rank without backlinks

Thanks

 

but it is possible to get decent PR with only couple of backlinks - but that won't get you any traffic

 

i had a thread here yesterday. i made a site and found a good keyword with good kw search volume "biggest cat".

that site is now on page one in google (now one position up even)..and this ONE day after i created the site !! All i did was some diggs and stumbles...and having that good KW. I was in shock myself.

Edit: or do you mean "rank" as in "PR" ?

 

I was looking on that site that you have in your signature. For sure...world's biggest cat

 

whats the average amount of backlinks do you need?

 

All depends on your keyword
But you cannot have too much, just keep on linkbuilding!!

 

i rank very high decent for very competitve terms and i have around 91 backlinks.

how do i do it? most of the competitors update their site once a year, i update it once a week with relevant, unique content.

 

It depeneds upon the keword you are targetting.The greater the competitive word the greater number of backlinks you need
Thnx

 

For mundane keywords which give little or no traffic yes. For keywords which have competition, no.

 

Backlinks indicate trust. Without backlinks, there's no trust being passed to the site. But like abstrooose said, if you rank for a word like woloopimeshgnomadious, you might do just fine.

 

I don't think I agree with not being able to rank without backlinks. I had a site that came up toward or at the top if I did a search via parts of the domain name. I didn't have any backlinks yet, only submitted the the sitemap and had it get indexed quickly.

Granted it wasn't a very common search term. I believe that you could rank with just site and domain SEO alone, just not normally very well without backlinks. Backlinks are a factor, but not the only part of the SERPs and PR.

 

Oh but its very possible, with Google anyway.

 

I don't think I agree with not being able to rank without backlinks. I had a site that came up toward or at the top if I did a search via parts of the domain name. I didn't have any backlinks yet, only submitted the the sitemap and had it get indexed quickly.

Granted it wasn't a very common search term. I believe that you could rank with just site and domain SEO alone, just not normally very well without backlinks. Backlinks are a factor, but not the only part of the SERPs and PR.

 

backlinks is maybe one of the most important factors for increased PR and also SERPs, but never ever use only one technique.

always go also for SEO optimization, keyword optimization, oppage formatting,

and also continue with social bookmarking and other techniques.

regards