There's no doubt about it and I believe this is not the first time that google has again stress on this point. Quality content is what defines a quality site.
Content is king, but it's still nothing without backlinks and keyword saturation...I'm still seeing that.
I disagree content isn't king. Content is the queen that attracts the king. Traffic is king. Without traffic you can't make money.
I think this is a good move in the correct direction for google. I think as a long time web user it is frustating not to be able to find the content I am looking for.
Content is not the king. Content relevancy is the king. Do a proper keyword research before writing articles for a better SERP.
Content was [is] and always be the King for Google [Content = Good + original + use full stuff] Unique content will also get you up there fast
Excellent post mate, very nice. I guess now I'm off to buy a content rewriter.. Actually I think Google will also have some sort of program to monitor the amount of new content and how frequently it is updated.
I don't buy that 100%. I think Google would like webmasters to believe content is more important than it really is, in the interest of more quality sites being built. But it is a whole lot easier to rank sites based on incoming links from established sites rather than trying to analyze the content of every site and pass it through some sort of quality control algorithm. I just don't think they're there yet. Earlier this year, as an experiment, I created a dating advice site. I filled it with around 60 100% unique, high-quality articles. However, I did no manual link-building. After six months, the site hardly ranked for ANY keywords (including the keywords in the URL), and got maybe 5-10 visitors per day. As much as I'd like to believe that quality content is indeed king, I haven't seen any evidence necessarily proving that as of yet.