Baclink is the backbone of your site or blog, I have come to that conclusion. Your best text, and content can go waste, withoug visibility in net, for lack of backlinks. It is strange and surprising thing, but it is a naked fact. We need to develop backlins. God knows why there are differenct methods of counting it, who counts them, counts them properly or not, there are dozens of questions about them, which are unreplied and shall remain unreplied. We need to continue to backlinks - thats all.
I agree with you mjewel. Its the perrfect answer for his question. Well, content is KING but without backlinks how can one know and get the detailed insight of any products or services and rich content having backlinks can rank well for improving your site.
You need both. You can rank with backlinks, and you can rank with unique content. But the easiest way to rank is backlinks AND unique content.
Backlinks are very much important. Without them content has no value and visibility. It is just like a dead body without heart or mind in it.
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It is not enough just to have a lot of backlinks, it is the Quality of backlinks along with the Quantity that help you rank better in Search Engines.
Well as long as you have unique and real/original content, you dont have to worry about anything. However this content is not going to get you enough backlinks, that you have to earn. So basically both of the things are important at their own places and may not work without each other. Both are equally important like a train engine and its compartments, they have to go with each other, hand in hand
Everyone saw the outcome of the Panda update,its better we always stick to unique and relevant content rather than depending on copied and sub standard text.What if, after working hard to help your site rank high and then getting less conversion will only make your effort futile.I believe Content and Backlinks go hand in hand to get maximum conversion.
Both backlinks and content are very important. You need lots of quality backlinks, and content to run a great website.
Obviously, yes. But Google will pick up pretty much all your backlinks (check webmaster tools to see).