[vishenda]

I think that links are more important than your content. It doesn't matter how good your content is if it's on page 1000 for the terms people are going to find it for.

If I had to pick okay links and great content or great links and okay content, I'd take the great links everytime.

But Then again,
Links are your customers
Content is your salesman

Tell me what do you think. Have a great day everyone

[tekmoney]

From great content comes great links, not the other way around.

[SendBlast]

Wrong tek.

[perclick]

As the search engines become more advanced having quality content will become more important. If you run any sort of ppc campaign then you know from the latest landing page quality score changes from google that good content does matter.

[pbradish]

Content! Providing buyers with more and better information to make intelligent buying decisions can only benefit your site's effectiveness.

[tekmoney]

Originally Posted by SendBlast

Wrong tek.

Elaborate please.

[SendBlast]

You made it sound as like if you do not have great content you won't get links. You can still have good links towards your site and not have the best content, or update it as much as you should.

[sicnarftea]

I think what tek really meant is that content attracts links, not the other way around

without content (be it text or a software), no one will link you, unless you purchase your link or join directories. hence the theory of link baiting

[SendBlast]

I hope you don't think thats really true. You can get links without having the best content. Such as finding recip link partners that help both parties benefit.

[Bestmiler]

Originally Posted by vishenda

I think that links are more important than your content. It doesn't matter how good your content is if it's on page 1000 for the terms people are going to find it for.

If I had to pick okay links and great content or great links and okay content, I'd take the great links everytime.

But Then again,
Links are your customers
Content is your salesman

Tell me what do you think. Have a great day everyone

Do you mean in terms of SEO or traffic or what?

[tekmoney]

Originally Posted by SendBlast

I hope you don't think thats really true. You can get links without having the best content. Such as finding recip link partners that help both parties benefit.

I know you can get reciprocal links without having the best content. Obviously, this is the way a lot of people have gotten by with content sites designed to make money from affiliates or adsense ads.

What the OP was saying was that links are more important than content. This is not true. If you're going to take into account the quality of your links, which you should if you are considering yourself an SEO'er, then the only way you're going to get that is through good content. You can definitely get some quality links if you have an average site, but these days and in the future, it really is all about the quality of your work so people talk about.

Artificial Reciprocal links are being devalued. Artificial link spam like blog spam and stuff like free for all directories are old news. I believe it was MSN that has completely devalued them all together.

Keep in mind, this is Web 2.0 season!

Organic linking, where people link to your site because the quality of your content is worthwhile(see: Digg, delicious, reddit), is quickly becoming the best (and easiest) way to generate links. Obviously this isn't going to happen with poor content. The shift is towards more on-site content generation (through useful, quality, talked-about content that generates links from people actually liking/disliking what you've said, basically it gets people talking) and away from inorganic link building which has one purpose in mind: increase search engine rankings without generating any value for web users.

[The Stealthy One]

I think she may have meant outgoing links.....I could be mistaken, though....at any rate, I hope she chimes in soon with a clarification, before, we assume stuff that's not even true!