Hello, First of all I hope I did not start this thread in the wrong category. I tried to find other more suitable but I couldn't. Everybody says the best way to get links to your site is to have good, unique content. I agree, but there are some problems. My site: Download, Try and Buy Software Archive, is based on a free database of PAD files. I am fighting with giants here and I tried my best to make content as good as possible so I added some news, press releases. I know these are also not unique, but ... I hope I will bring some more content. I think my case can serve as a good example for other too, so how anyone should implement the concept: good and unique content on a site like this?
Well, if you can keep on top of news - and write about it in a good personal style, and promote that well, it should pull up the rest of your site with it. But this is a full niche, so it's going to be tough.
Meaning: a news site should have regular news to show. And if you don't want to duplicate slashdot (which is really the big competition on technology news) - you need to keep up to date on that faster then they do. Which is very difficult of course. The point about creating unique content is precisely that: it should be unique. Unique can mean: the first to report on something. It can mean a unique perspective on something. It can mean the only one who writes about something. From what you wrote so far I don't think you fit any one of those, so it's no surprise your site isn't ranking well.
My site is also quite new and maybe this is also a reason for not ranking well. I think some good links would put me in a better place.