Backlinks are more important yeah. And the lesser competition you have in your niche the better your chances of ranking higher even with less backlinks. Of course to get return traffic you gotto have quality content
backlink and content are same important for SEO,without backlink. Good content can't survive in the Google SERP,backlink too
It's always important, since more quality backlinks = bigger pager rank. And pagerank maybe isn't so important these days, but still does some major things
Your focus should be providing great content that offers value and solutions for the searchers and people will want to link to it automatically.
i do agree with you carriethomson.what is the use of the content if there is no backlinks,it is useless.it is like putting your product without any address on it.
Hmm , backlinks can make you get high Alex rank , and google page rank , but if you want to make your visitors have a good taste about your site , you need also make some high quality contents .
With the current change in algorithm they are more giving more importance on content I think it's best to put more effort on good content. If you have a good content and people will notice then they will put a backlink for you.
although contents is the very important of all, backlinks is also important to rank among the rest. i even created a new related site just to get backlinks from
Quality content and quality backlinks are the combination in getting the best results. So both are equally important if they are maintained in proportion and not spam or junky.
It's not important, it's extremely important. You need many quality backlinks to bring traffic to your site and with no backlinks, no traffic and no money.