Thread: links are kING or is content King?

Quote: Originally Posted by monfis This is rediculess, you still refuse to keep your arguments related to the question of this thread here - do whatever you want but stop wasting forum members tim with OFF THEME talks. May be we should start to talk about the weather? I have not posted a single post in this thread that is off topic. I even summarized the entire thread for you very neatly. Again (for those that have a difficult time...

Quote: Originally Posted by selectsplat You don't have to choose. The bottom line is that you *must* have both, or you will fail. If you have to choose between the two, you've already lost. Period. We're having lots of fun with this aren't we? Awesome, well IF, I said IF, you had to choose, I would choose great content optimized for keywords that you can dominate, as king. Chances are its not a dire situation where you...

haha that's sounds nice Not content or links are king... €€ is KING

Quote: Originally Posted by Canonical Links are king for ranking... You can pretty much have crap for content and still rank very well with enough inbound links from relevant sites with the targeted keyword phrase (or slight variations of that phrase) as the link text. However, content is king for attracting links naturally from other web sites. No one wants to link to crappy content. I so agree. You see websites out there ranked quite high...

Quote: Originally Posted by dcristo Good content will attract natural links. Not necessarily, not with all the SEO's working their arse off to bring up crap sites on serp's Of course, if you have high rankings and then leave it, it will retain on its own with natural links, at that point content is king But when the website is new both content and link are equal kings

Quote: Originally Posted by Johanv I think links is the King and content the queen. You need links to score in google, but you need content to score on the right keywords I like your simple answer.

I think the focus should be on content first . Good content will assist then with your link building; if you post links in the right places and other users find the content relevant then they will take your link and post it elsewhere for you.

Quote: Originally Posted by selectsplat I've already clearly demonstrated that I know more about the subject than you do. When I said that no one will ever see your great content if you don't have good backlinks, and you provided your fourth position on a low volume, no competition SERP as an example that people would see good content with no backlinks, that was a clear demonstration that you haven't the foggest notion of what...

I have heard so it seems both sids of the story. Is this just a matter of opinion or is this a good argument?

Content is King and Links are Queens