Link building or fresh content?

I know both are very important but if you must choose just one which one would you choose?

Which is more important for a blog to be high ranked in searches?

 

Unless youre the guy who built the crawlbot, noone will ever really know, but I believe backlinks are given less priority to new fresh material as excessive backlinks are now the new thing to abuse by blackhats.


Top 5 Factors imo:

1) Age of website
2) Weekly fresh material
3) On-page optimization
4) Backlinks
5) Multiple Engine submissions


Here is a good website for you to check out, it is a frequently updated checklist of all pluses and negatives for SEO.

 

Yup, both are key! No sense to choose.

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Though both of them are important, if I were to choose between the two, I would select link building. Building quality links using seo-friendly methods (ex: social bookmarking) will boost your traffic.

 

Backlinks is the best for me, in my opnion.

 

I think that if I had to choose I would go with backlinks because it builds pr and also brings in traffic.

 

Fresh content for the purpose of link building.

 

you MUST do both. No question.

 

I agree. There's no sense to choose only one because they are both helpful to improve rankings.

 

Fresh content since content is the king.
Eventhrough you not doing link building but your content is superb, then others will put your link on their site

 

fresh content is first step in seo

 

I always preferred quality and unique content. If your site has more quality content then you will get more backlinks and visitors automatically.

 

For me, both are really important. I'll choose link building over updating your blog frequently. (you can update it twice a week.)

 

they are both important aspects of doing SEO...you can't just stick to one if you want to have good rankings, conversion, traffic and etc...

 

content... then the links will come later naturally.

 

Everybody thinking about artificial back links but if your site has quality content then your site will get natural back links. Google always prefers artificial back links than natural back inks

 

If the content of your site is already made relevant then link building should be chosen between fresh content and link building.

If not so, then you should go towards fresh content which must be relevant.

 

More and more people are paying for links, and Google seems to be trying to root those players out. Fresh content helps you show up in search, so I consider it the #1 priority.

 

I will give more priority to fresh content.