[Nova]

I made last topic about quality backlinks. But can we rank in Google without good content in your web site ?

Does content is more important than backlinks now ?

[xdude]

Today content is the most important thing. You need to have unique content and you have to update content regularly. If you have lots of content you can rank in Google without a problem for none high competitive keywords. But there are many things you need to think about. Such as,

01. Uniqueness of content.
02. Updating content on regular basis.
03. Keeping keyword density around 1%
04. Inter linking pages with keywords.
05. Having 1-2 outgoing links to authority sites.
06. Contest should have at leas 750+ words
07. Title should optimized.
08 Use description tag. You can skip the keyword tag Google don't bother about it anymore.
09. Having couple of images with proper image tags.
10. Making a List.

[Nova]

So finally content has become the king! Do you really think we can rank only with content without any backlinks ? Thats something i had no idea.

What about duplicate content ? Few years back I used lots of PLR articles for my web sites. but then those Panda and Penguin updates happened. I lost traffic for most of my web sites.

So u mentioned we should have one or two out going linkd to authority sites in same niche. Can we use NoFollow attribute for these out going likes ?

[xdude]

Content has been always being the king. It's just Google took time to give it priority. Their idea was more back-links means people love the page/site more. Everyone started buying / making back-links they had to move on from that. Give priority to content is a foolproof method. Back-links still matter too but it's just not like before. You no longer can rank only with links if you don't have good quality content.

These days in-page optimization plays a bigger role in ranking. Things like keyword stuffing can kill your site but if you carefully prepare your pages with right amount of words and keywords in right places it can give a good boost to your Google search ranks.

[maroon93]

Both content creation and backlink building are important. While there is not straight answer to what is most significant since SEO is not about doing any one thing. While doing seo you need to take several other factors in consideration. i.e. Content creation is on-page activity which might earn you external links if you product quality linkable content, while building backlinks is off page activity.

[meetdilip]

Google likes to say that content is the king. But, mostly, it is other factors that makes you website a hit. Off page SEO like backlinks, social sharing, page structure optimization etc determines the success of your project.

[xdude]

Google likes to say that content is the king. But, mostly, it is other factors that makes you website a hit. Off page SEO like backlinks, social sharing, page structure optimization etc determines the success of your project.

I have to disagree with that. Right now content is what matters most. It's not simple as it used to be. First you need to do keyword research and find low competitive keywords related to your niche. Then you need to create content which is optimized for main keyword and few secondary keyword phrases. On page optimization comes to play when you do this. Keyword density should be less than 1% and you need to have at least 1000 words in your content. (Might be more if other ranked pages for same keywords have better quality content) You have to carefully set up title tags and then internal links. There should be couple of out going do follow links for Authority sites in same niche. Then check content with plagiarism checker and make sure your content is unique and has correct keyword density. Now Publish the page and ping it to main search engines. Also ad few social media links. All that for getting your page index fast. If you have done everything right your page will be in first 100 SERP within 48 hours.

Now in next 2 week you need to add more content and try to tweak it here and there giving the page more authority. Add more social shares like G+, FB shares, Reweets, Pinterest pins etc because these will get Google crawlers to your site more often. You should keep doing this as long as your page moving on SERP. There will be a time your page no longer moves.

That's when you should start off page SEO such as building quality back links.

[Nova]

Yeah. I have been trying everything since I had started this thread. Unique and regularly updated content has snown good result.

[Arkiven4]

@Nova . I think if the result is good . Well . I must apply it in my site . "Unique and regularly updated content" xD

[Jayce]

So much backlinks causes Google to block your site and remove it from lists so I say it's all about content and few backlinks. Massive backlinking is considered as spam by Google.