Lately there is talk what more important: backlinks or content. Well, good content always will benefit your site for customer to stay longer or buy if you e commerce site. So, what about backlinks? Sidelinks are Big no no, spam links, farm links, articles, guest posting, blogging , seems, that you can find on each of that someone will tell you that its all OLD news and not gonna make your site better rank. So, whats left? and how to rank better? Does small e shop or small site has ability to rank ever again better then BIG guys? in reality every backlink, post, etc, has to be valuable to your site, every guest posting has to get your clients to your site, otherwise there is no point to do that. if you feel, that you just adding your backlink everywhere, but it does not make sense, you just wasting your time and will be no value to your site. Social sites, for now, they are Ok, but how many times can you post from same place and add more link to same URL. any replies be great.
Guest posting still seems to be working and building your own private network of sites to link for. Or the classical editorial links, build content so good that people will naturally link to you, but truly , when does that ever happen?
Link building is a very important and essential ranking factor. However what Google seems to be favoring at the moment are social signals such as, "Likes, Google+, comments" and relevant high PR links. If you PM me your site I'll take a look and advise.
I would just concentrate on providing good content on your site. If it is informative it will get shared liked ect. giving your site somewhat of a viral effect.
Getting backlinks from everywhere and anywhere you can is no longer going to be helpful, but instead will probably get you penalized. However, I believe your strategy should start with excellent content on your site, as kb24 mentioned, which you bookmark as well as share on social media sites, as Cyberchoices suggests. Hopefully this content will draw traffic in and earn you some conversions as well as earn you some links from others wanting to share your great content. Then as time permits you work on content that can be shared on other blogs that will point back to your site, as Tumpo suggested, with guest blog posts.
Both are important. However, I think that content is more important at this stage of the game. You should focus on the content of the site and backlinks will naturally come.
Google is favoring big brand name, if you have money you can build brand name utilizing advertising places, TV ads, news paper ads, magazine ads, banner ads on big sites etc..
You can boost your link building power with submission of your RSS feed to directories. Internal links between you posts on you blog or site isn't just true link building tactics, it’s also a good way to get your readers to engage further with your website. Link your Facebook or twitter fan page to create links automatically.by using this technique every new posts results in a highly-shareable backlink to your site. Dean
I'm sure that in 2014 the implementing of complex diagrams will be the best method for promoting your website. I'll try my best in the next week to publish how I do see the Diagrams for backlinks and the benefit of using them
i don't think so. because complex things are coming more and more simple and easy to use. looking forward for 2014, that will be a great year for digital marketing.