Backlinks vs Content

What is more important: backlinks or content?


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You can rank shit content short-term but it won't last. Hint: don't use ESL writers, use real experts who knows wtf they are talking about.
 


Everyone says content, but, here's the thing...

Googlebot can't read! (yet) It can see words, but it can't comprehend writing, not like a human.

Googlebot can't discern between crap and quality content aside from duplication. This is why they have teams of manual reviewers.

And, is why keywords are still a dominant element in search rankings.

Until Googlebot can actually read, like a human, the technical side will always be more important (i.e. backlinks, etc)
 
Content is King!!
Backlinks are considered the People who gives taxes to the king (just something I came up with just now ;))

So will The king survive without the Taxes? simple answer NO!

Content is what google is looking for at this time but what if your site has all the unique super content but no backlinks? there's nowhere to go with that..
 
Links and content both are needed, if you are in less competitive niche then you may not need backlinks as well.
 
What do you guys think is more important for baking a cake: flour or sugar? I'm new to cooking and I just want to know what I should focus at! I would like to know, if you had an amount of money, in which of the two options would you invest more? Thanks in advance, by the way, great forum!
 
content along with an exact match domain will turn you into this guy...

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But my experience with EMD+ content without backlinks are totally negative, that's why I voted backlinks, Guys you know i m running a blog with EMD 3 or 4 Fresh Human content in a month and its now almost 6 months & nearby 40 Posts yet. But traffic Ratio is 3 to 5 visit per day. lolx i got few comments on WP dashboard that.

Wonderful get the job carried out! This truly the type of information that actually shared about the web. Shame around the serps for not positioning this post higher!

& few commented if you want traffic, visits bla bla then contact us we're marketers lolx of course i didn't approve their comments. but the point is that backlinks are needed no doubt if you ask me I vote again to backlinks.
 
What do you guys think is more important: backlinks or content? I'm new to IM and I just want to know what I should focus at! I would like to know, if you had an amount of money, in which of the two options would you invest more? Thanks in advance, by the way, great forum!

This is atypical question because both are more important. but one can even manage with moderate contents but without backlink it is not possible
 
In my opinion I think backlinks make the site, if you have average content and good backlinks and your site will rank higher than the other way around.
 
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I say content is important but backlinks are just as important if not slightly more important.

They must go hand in hand. Its like have a business. The content is the building/employees/you and the backlinks are the marketing tool that allows you to make money and become a profitable business.

If you don't have both...you won't get anywhere.
 
This question is similar to the chicken or egg paradox. Without content there won't be the need for backlinks, without backlinks theres no use of the content.

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Both are important..the content will help your site in getting indexed and get traffic or rank, and the backlink will strengthen the site..it's mean both are important.
 
backlink and content are important, because backlink without content tha's will be useless, so both can't be a parted...
 
If backlinks are coming from high quality websites then these are helpful to you otherwise content is still a King...:love-smiley-013: