Content is truly KING!

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    I have a client that wants to rank for a certain keyword, currently he doesn't list with the first 100. The website that has the no.1 listing has only 36 backlinks while my client has over 1000 backlinks to his page. This shows 2 things:
    1. That the quality of backlinks is more important than the quantity
    2. That content optimization is very important because the site listed number one for this keyword has its content highly optimized while my clients isn't.
     
    webguy84, Jan 18, 2007 IP
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  2. KC TAN

    KC TAN Well-Known Member

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    #2
    I agree with point 1.

    A link from W3C to my CSS site is all i need ;)
     
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  3. jackar000

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    #3
    I agree with point no. 1 as well. Quality of backlinks rather than quantity.

    What would you rather have, and which one would give you more traffic??

    One link from google.com home page VS one million links from link farms?


    ...
     
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    #4
    you missed one very very important point with google... age of site/domain is also important. the #1 site is probably much more established that your client's site ;)
     
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    mixke Prominent Member

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    Good ones ;) :)
     
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    Subzero Well-Known Member

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    Quality of backlinks is very important yes, but the trick is in getting them :)
     
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    #7
    Backlinks ... and the better would be One-Way Links

    My opinion ;)

    Cheers,
    Dani
     
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  8. Cheap SEO Services

    Cheap SEO Services <------DoFollow Backlinks

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    #8
    Is this a question and answer thread or something else? News? It's pretty obvious that quality links are far better than quantity and content is certainly king.

    Col :)
     
    Cheap SEO Services, Jan 20, 2007 IP
  9. Seo Wannabe

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    #9
    with enough links content doesn't matter
    "miserable failure" should be proof enough
     
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  10. Angelus

    Angelus Well-Known Member

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    Good point... "click here" is another example...

    p.l.u.r.
     
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    Actually I don't belive in PR links at all. I have another theory :)
     
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    #12
    can't agree with you.

    have a site that ranks top 10 for major keywords and has few links, altought good ones, and is quite new, 6 months old.
     
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    theseokit Banned

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    #13
    Backlinks are key to top placement, of course stronger links on authority sites are better. But there is other things that could make that rank difference as well. For instance, how many site pages are indexed? Internal links?
     
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    #14
    quality better than quantity, links from authority sites, stay away from link exchanges.
     
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    #15
    Search engines love lots of unique content on a site..
     
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    Yea content is certainly the king of getting to the top. Theres no point having a website and the users can't do anything on it!
     
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    Yahoo show 104K inlinks to you :) Not bad :)
     
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    Backlink is king :) People can rank for a competitive term with only markov generated content.
     
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    #19
    If you get back links on authority sites it is really good as well.
     
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