What is more important to google? Having backlinks or having good content? If you could only add one to your website, what is more important to have? Is having good updated content on your website better than building quality backlinks?
I'd say it's not an either... If you have good content, you get backlinks. Of course, if you have good content and actively work on getting backlinks, you'll have more of them. But if you have little or no useful content, you will not get any quality backlinks, no matter how hard you try. So I'd always suggest to start with creating some decent content and then begin building links... Rainer
Obviously you need both, but to answer your hypothetical question - given only one choice it would be content
So everthing else being equal, if you have 2 websites with the same content, and you add good quality content on a regular basis and no backlinks to one. Then only add backlinks to the other, the website with content should rank higher? Is this safe to assume?
Yeah content is a way to go. as a blogger i realized i shouldn't waste commenting on blogs because i should be focusing on content, besides often times comment url has no follow tag, just to give an example.
Content attracts natural backlinks. Google loves that, and of courese : is the best thing you can do for your future users. So i would choose content, as it is more valuable and difficult go get/create.
Yes, exactly - don't think you always must build backlinks. If you leave a good site alone, natural backlinks will happen. So there is no such thing like an excellent page without backlinks (at least after some reasonable period). Of course, you need to have some initial attention, else nobody will know about your site... So if you absolutely want to hide it, you may have success
hi guys, You all right that content is the most important factor to promote your site and Google and other SEs are loved it to crawl. Having good content, you do not need to do more tactics except link building to getting good PR and search result.
Content Why? Because the more you write, the more chances you have to appear on odd keywords. However, having said that, I don't think that concentrating on content alone is going to take you sky high. You also need to build links. Some people say that the unique the content, the more links you'll get. While the theory makes perfect sense and to some extent also works for some people but you can't just sit back and write and wait for other people to link to you. Some people might even rip off your content and put it up on their websites and if they have have done their bit of the off-page customization then their site is likely to get indexed more and earlier than yours. Write more and try to write unique content but make sure that you also work on link building. It'll help you go a long way.
I totally agree. The more content you have the more you find yourself ranking high for those rare long tail's. Enough content and you'll be surprised just how many these can add up. But despite all that, unless the content has something outstanding or some kind of link bait then the links don't come quickly without a push. IMO, they are both as important as each other if you are trying to attract a large audience.
Hmmmm the most importand NOW are baclinks :d But same results you can receive with LOWER count of baclinks if You have good content.. IMO --> Quality content can gives You lots of niche targeted traffic It is very useful when Your site is NEW and on hard keywords you are away in Serps
No matter what kind of stolen or unreadable content you got, if you have lots of quality backlinks, Google will not care about the content and rank the site high. Know it from experience too. So *TO GOOGLE* backlinks are more important.
i think backlinks are more important i mean... if you can get a decent position [top 5 in search results] for your website and you have few content on it and many ads you could earn really well from it.
have to agree with you Snout.. I had an experience doing this thing..I tried finding more backlinks that I could for my experimental blog rather than emphasizing on the quality of the content. The result is pretty impressive.. I ranked no 1 in google for that experimental keyword
Was that experimental keyword highly competitive? I know from experience that it is fairly easy to rank high on non-competitive keywords... Besides that, I agree that good content without link building does not bring you really far. However, I think the importance is still on the content ... IF the site in question is to stay for a longer period. If you just do a quick shot for, let's say half a year or so, the content is probably not that important... My 2cts... Rainer
For me, backlinks will do. A site with good content will but doesn't have any good quality links will only sit on the bottom of the search engines. So, do link building frequently..
Provide your site with good content first before you build for a backlinks. Content is more important in your site especially if it is newly launched.
I agree with everyone else. Content is king. If you have great content then the backlinks are going to come. If you work at the backlinks too, then you will just do better in the SE's as well as more traffic