Bilal I want to find one SEO that tells you that content is King that ranks without links. Yeah, yeah, "content is King"β¦ but the Queen, the Knight, The Castle, and the soldiers are links. Stop talking about "content is King" because we all know that cute content means nothing if there is no serious Google Juice pointing to that site. 29 ππ½10 π€4230 π¬π¨π°π
Lori Appleman π Sorry but if you do Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and don't get that content is king, you won't survive. Google GOAL is to deliver the best search results. While they have not perfected it, they keep getting better. Backlinks do help, but many sites rank quite well without any effort to create them. If the on site experience isn't good, people bounce which is a big signal to Google that the page stinks. Google ignores your quality site and let's others with high Domain Authority (DA) jump you in ranking. πππ½13
Jubair Β» Lori Appleman Absolutely absolutely,,,, Once I created a new website, you know the website was brand new with a fresh domain, I just put 6 or 7 short posts like 600-700 words. One of them with lots of searching volumes featured on Google first search result. Many of aged sites ranked under that page. Because the piece of content was a solid information that people actually needed. So it was featured on the top π That means definitely content is KING is always,, And Google continuously trying to deliver the best search results,, so in near future it will be much more stronger ,, still Google using links but the Search engine getting so smart . So we should always focus on the content π€ππ½3
McKinney Quality Content is King⦠you know content so good, people will share it and link to it⦠content that helps your customer and solves their problems⦠and don't forget you should link to and share it yourself in a number of ways⦠don't think buying links will help you, that's flat out against policy
McKinney Here's an example how backlinks aren't required straight from Moz – https://moz.com/blog/optimize-SEO-content-with-keyword-clustering How to Use Keyword Clustering to Seamlessly Optimize Your SEO Content
James All the links in the world wont do squat if nobody is actually clicking them, or engaging with your content. Which makes me think its engagement that is really being tracked and measured to determine rankings. Good links are one way to get engagement, but there are plenty of other ways that produce better results with less effort/cost than "link building" from my experience. Great content, for example, gets linked to without outreach or payment. So yeah, links are important, but I still think the actual content is "king" Roy In 8 years I've never actively reached out for any backlinks. I have received plenty natural backlinks. (bc my content is π₯ I have individual pages on my site that did $40k in sales this year. (cannabis/CBD niche) I'm sure backlinks could boost it a bit but I've also never lost traffic after a Google algorithm update. If it ain't broke, don't fix it! I even took a site from $1.2m in sales per year to $7m+ and we never built a single backlink and the niche is fairly competitiveβ¦ (tourism niche) πππ½6 Josh Since when was Content and Links ever king? Budget is king lmao ππ½π€23 Meri Lapin-Rapide Yes but links alone are not going to get a website visitor to convert into a customer or a client. SEO copywriting/content is not just for Google rankings, it's there to engage and convert. SEO is a marketing tool just like any other, and needs to prove ROI. As an SEO specialist you're going to outshine your competition if you understand this. Your job is more than just Google rankings.
Alex Β» Meri Lapin-Rapide 1000000% – best thing I've read in this group. π1
Castillo Great content generates links naturally. So you're argument is fundamentally flawed. πππ½15
Cory Β» Castillo This
Joseph I've been able to get valuable, competitive content to position zero before without link generation. Industry and the backlink profile of your competition definitely matter. I'm not discounting links since they are highly valuable for SEO "juice" but content can still rank without in certain situations. BTW, the type of content I'm talking about is worth thousands of site visitors on a monthly basis. Dino Hmmmm from what I understand now remember none of us here can say whether you are right or wrong as we don't know the final answer only Google does. However, it does appear that less emphasis is being placed on links than before and more emphasis is being directed towards well optimized websites that provide great user experience and content that is relevent and matches user intent. Yes links still could well be the main thing you must ask Google this but the signs are starting to indicate less emphasis on just volume of links . That being said just 1 link from a highly authoritative site that is reoevent to yours is undoubtedly going to help your SEO . It's difficult to say as we dealing with SEO which is not an exact science. Daniel The answer is both. Try to lose rigidity. The world of marketing is vast and of course anyone that has worked a couple of industries has a tendency to think they know everything about marketing. That is absolute insanity. Every industry and niche will be different. It is quite possible that for some industries and or niches simply getting high quality content can get you backlinks, while in others good luck with your high quality content philosophy, it ends up being like a ghost town. And all in between. For instance as a marketing agency owner go ahead and write a blog post about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and make it like really stunning content and let's see just how well you'll rank for that post with no backlinks. However have some strange ass niche for which there's very little competition and you write a how-to article on how to do something that almost no one's trying to do well that low-hanging fruit is going to have you ranking number one, obviously. Then there's everything in between. Content is King was started by copywriters and marketers trying to promote their products or services. The concept had an agenda. Now you have people thinking all you need is great content and that for every industry it applies and that is just not true. In some industries you can have the world's greatest piece of content and if you're off site SEO worked regarding that content is nil so too will the traffic attraction and ranking of that article. And now here comes either an exception to the rule or straight up liars ready go! Nathan While I agree, I also disgaree and this is why: If you have crap content (king) who directs the queen, knight, soldiers, and designed the castle. Your knights, soldiers, and probably queen are all going to be slaughtered because the content (king) is crap and is going to give terrible guidance which means you will have to continue to replace the Queen, knights, soldiers, and rebuild the castle often. With a great King (content) and you acquire a great queen, knights, soldiers, and design a great castle (Structure). Then you will rank (become the best kingdom) and once that's established because you have the most talked about king you won't need to always get new queens, soldiers, knights, etc.. LOL for a minute I forgot I was talking about Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Bilal βοΈ Β» Nathan Probably the most interesting comment under my post π Nathan Β» Bilal I hear both sides of every argument but when it comes to SEO there really is no King just the weakest link no pun intended! π
