Many people who ramble on and on about CONTENT don't even understand, and practice, and live it. 5 years ago, no one really understood what content means. Today EVERYONE uses the word "content" but do they understand it, in its entirety? Don't think so. Content is a word being bandied about left and right, but in reality how many percent of internet marketers actually live the concept? My guess is less than 10%. Maybe 5%. That is why we have so much INACCURACY on the internet, it is very disturbing. And that is because most people make websites where they know nothing about the topic/subject. It's all just to make money. They either copy somewhere and then try to rehash it, or they pay someone who will (not) do a good job at any rate. Result = Poor, inaccurate content. Throw in bad grammar sometimes....and there you have it - The cesspool we call the internet. I shudder to think about things like.....medical subjects, how am I to know what is the truth, and what isn't......(Mesothelioma and Cancer subjects come to mind).
agree with you , need to build a lot of baclinks so people know you and link to you , you get goood serp and more traffic
I agree marketing is the key, "build it and they will come" doesn't work for the web, if they never see your site in the first place, they will never come
But if they do come to your site and find PLS articles without any value, the will leave instantly. After all they are humans and they search for valuable information. Therefore you can market your website how much you want without getting any result if your visitors hate the website.
that 'content is king is a myth' is in fact its own myth. in the niches that I search around in and also have websites in, you darn well better have some good content, good seo both on page and off page, and also quality backlinks which are themselves attracted to good content, so it becomes a cycle - produce good content, then go out looking for qood quality links and it can happen. getting quality links, editorial links being the most valuable of all from Trusted and Authority sites are themselves the hardest to come by but they sure as hey don't link to sites with poor quality (in general) - of course there are always exceptions and you can find many sites in the serps that will rank well for the simple fact that the bots/algos are machines and not an editor or librarian and make errors.... but from what I see their margin of error is pretty slim and they do a decent job of keeping a lot of good content-sites in the arenas/serps where I go looking for info.... so, as others have mentioned, good content, plus good seo, plus a good diverse link profile makes a big difference to having poor content and poor seo etc....
Content is and will remain King As I have noticed with my own website Rich in Content (unique) It is just 3 months old, With little SEO -------------- And is still getting good traffic, and competing with even .edu sites on some good keywords ---------------------- and even showing good results on image search also --------------------------- to verify it contact me
You need content and the BL. Anyone who just takes care of one,not both, is not planing his/her feature.
You may as well have good content since it will probably get you more 'natural' links. Though yeah, I see quite a lot of spam sites ranking in google, eg. sites which just leech off youtube, copy links of other sites, and so on. Content is a factor but the true king seems to be getting a s*** load of links and general SEO for your site.
It seems you guys can't see the forest for the trees. If content is king why the do so many sites rank high in serps without content or back links. If I do a search in Google I will rarely get past the 3rd page as sites in the 4th an subsequent pages are full of rubbish. The only thing I can think of is Keywords and the right keywords will get you a high position in serps.
If you did a real research you would know that there are a zillion blogs with crappy stolen content that auto update, and the owner crying all year long in DP saying I can't get any traffic!. I've already did a research on this for a year. I build two sites on identicial templates, based on two niches VERY simular in popularity. For one I took the content from someplace else, and the other I written from scratch. I promoted the sites & did SEO. 30hrs to the unique content site, and 70 to the junky content one. Then I left them for a year. A few months ago I sold both of them. the rich content one sold for $1200 and the one with crappy content sold for $160. Content is king but if you want to create 100 auto update blogs and cry when they all get 2 visitors a month each then please remember this post. I told ya so. Or and it doesn't really count with the big shot sites because they buy pr 8 links and huge traffic adspace. Often they get popular through word of mouth and then their backlinks start rolling in.
Content is important, but there is only so much you can write about any subject. If you have 1 article which is concise to the point but explains everything you are writing about, there is no need to fluff it up with BS. Build some links and watch the traffic come in.
If you are writing self content then Google can pick any word inside your post and make it as a keywords & finally it will be shown to the users.. My friend is having a blog and he is getting daily 400 sets of google keywords which are related to the post content. For Blog, Off page optimization does not matter so much.. Original content matters...
Content might be KING, but marketing is the KINGDOM It's useless to have good content without good marketing.
You have done god research and it show why content is more valuable in long term. Content keeps the visitor engaged on site for long term not the backlink. THere is no use of getting traffic from useless links if visitor stay for few second on the site.
There are a lot of border line blog sites that rank well that probably shouldn't. If you've seen one you've seen them all. Too many ads, too much spelling and grammar errors, but for some reason google ranks them. Guess they have good backlinks, but does that really make them quality...sometimes, but usually not. Heck anyone can get backlinks, but it doesn't mean it is a quality site, post, or whatever and deserves the top 10. Google keeps trying to tweak their algorithm, which is good but I still think it needs some work. If someone could compete with google popularity and actually weed out the junk then they might rule, or at least stand a chance.
This is a great post! It should become the first post in a new sticky thread. It totally sums up why "Content is King". Thanks for sharing!
Yeah, you are right. Traffic is also a quality issue. Quality content means quality traffic = people spending more time on your site and clicking on more ads!
It's not competitive. There are only half a mill competing results for the term in quotes. Even the original poster could probably rank for that if he wanted. It also has an exact domain match, very important to Google right now. And it probably won't rank later on, when the term hots up. Unless he puts some unique content on there and gets some backlinks to it.