Comments on: Content is King, or Links are King: What’s Your Money On

By: GoogleLady

GoogleLady — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:13:52 +0000

From my experiences testing out this issue openning new sites. I came with a solution:

When you start a page with content, how a spider will know that this site exists? Let’s see if you add it on Google manually. It will take a lot of time, or as Google explained somewhere in the Adwords guide, “If your site is new and you are using adwords we “may” add it in our index” (something like this).

But try it yourself if you have a blog (which it seems Google spiders it more than a normal website) link to your new site and wait 24/48 hours and you will see that your new site will be on their index typing: yourdomain.com

All I mentioned Index because you first need to be indexed and then ranked. To be ranked well is definitevely a “MUST” to have backlinks.

By: Chiller

Chiller — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:55:40 +0000

Oh ok sorry then, I was referring to the part where you describe the three options and did not really factor in your “links are queen”-statement.
Regarding your answer: Do you think that a link needs to be spread even if it has excellent content to be ranked well in search engines?
It of course would be linked automatically by others, but let’s assume the hypothetical case that it wouldn’t be.

By: GoogleLady

GoogleLady — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:55:54 +0000

Chiller, I didn’t say that the site can succeed with no links. On the contrary, I believe that Unique content is the king and links are the queen.

If there is a site with execellent content/ unique content and new content with one good backlink will be enough to be spread. Internet is really wild!

By: Chiller

Chiller — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:41:32 +0000

I think your thought experiments are a little off-key in that you seem to require that there a no links at all to your new site. Then how is anybody (including search engines) going to find your site?

It would be interesting to see what happens to a site that is linked only from 1 source and has excellent, new content.

By: GoogleLady

GoogleLady — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:56:31 +0000

You can give an example here, Googlelady.com have a pagerank 6 with top commentators.

By: Thomas Sinfield

Thomas Sinfield — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:51:14 +0000

There is a lot of opportunity to get exposure and back links by making it into other blogs ‘top commentors’ sections! Some of them are Page Rank 5!

By: arthur

arthur — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:10:46 +0000

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