Backlinks are Worthless. Here's what I did to get #1 on Google in Less Than 2-Days!

[Johnbatosh]

wrong... wrong... wrong...

You did say wrong. You are not at #1 you are placed at #23 so edit your post first.

I have checked your blog and found some useful bcklinks that google has gives you,,, so why you are keep saying Backlinks is wast of time dude

Backlinks is a BIG Thing in SEO....

But yes i agreed with your content points ...it is must

[BXPS]

I think content is key followed by backlinks.

[Caspir]

backlinks can not be worthless, I keep adding linkbacks to my site and every day new backlink active I can see alexa keeps changing its number for my site.

[SledgeHammer]

I'm not able to see you in Top 20 from here.

[TroyNotes]

On page, on Site and relevant+indexed+trusted backlinks are all factors. Google has probably hundreds if not 1000's of factors that could possibly be computed. I have had sites rank with just the domain name alone and 5 relevant posts. I have also had my pages rank without any backlinks via various media optimizations.

Content vs Backlinks It varies over the years as to which Google/etc are favoring as most important, largely based on the never ending war between google's algorithms trying to create order, and pople trying to manipulate the rankings, both being rewarded by rather staggering amounts of money if they get it right.

Part of the issues with content, Google is a bot and can never keep up with the number of new pages coming online everyday so has tended in the last few years to favor backlinks as this is harder to game than spinning content.

That said backlinks can be gamed easily too and there are ways to make backlink manipulation impossible for google to easily determine. Again they have endless amounts of work so have to consider how much time it takes for a bot to make sense out of all this content and backlinks.

Also there are more than one channel for ranking, images, videos etc. These by themselves can rank independently and also augment whatever text you are using.

[frogman]

OP,
Try using scroogle to verify your position.
Or run ccleaner before checking serps.

[Incoan]

Good name for an e-book .

While it is just my first post, I know that BLs are good. Cheers.

[TBInternetMarketing]

Originally Posted by quiescen

Interesting. I'm not logged into Google and have search results set to show United States sites.

Clear your search history and delete cookies etc.
Don't worry, I fell for that one once too. Got really excited when my site was number 1 when actually it was still on page 14 when I tested on another computer

[Andrew S]

A little offtopic here but post-panda blogger blogs got hooked up in the SERPS for some reason.

Could it be because they are owned by G? Probably. They are just like every other free blog host out there, why should they give themselves special treatment. IDK.

[Dubturbo]

How can anyone possibly say that backlinks have no value. smh

[jak jacki]

hi
i think backlinks are very important for site rank. i tried to make backlinks for my site but it is very hard to make Specially google backlinks.

[Billy Rey]

we get threads like this every couple weeks now! Used to be once a month!

[tchung]

unique content is definitely important, but with most keywords, theres no way you'll get to #1 with just that, you need backlinks too

[strategic seo services]

Backlinks are one of the Most Important factors when trying to rank a website. Without backlinks, your website will not rank well in Google (unless your keyword has Zero competition).

[himanuzo]

Free Piano Sheet Music in the New Age Style 's age is more than 5 years!

[Yogini]

As others have said, a combination of backlinks plus fresh content is important. I was looking at your main site, quiescencemusic.com and noticed that you have a number of phrases that can be boosted up with a little bit of backlinking: online piano lessons, free piano lessons online, online piano sheet music, piano music lesson are in top 20 and can get in top 5 with more backlinks and onsite seo.

The blogger blog you mentioned I believe with a little work can rank higher for the term you mentioned free piano sheet music, but also for intermediate piano sheet music, new age piano, new age piano music, piano piece and others since there are a number in top 20. I find that fresh content does give a temporary boost to page 1.

Debbie

[.X.]

LOL - yeah, nobody would buy them and
certainly nobody would sell them.

Unless people thought they could actually
get away with publishing crap and then
paying someone $5 for 50,000 backlinks
that would shoot them right up to #1 in
Google.

Then . . . it just might work!

Backlinks are meaningful but run any SEO
analytics software on a handful of terms
and you'll see sites with lower page rank
and fewer backlinks outranking sites with
higher page rank and hoards of backlinks
all over the place.

Sorry if I sound rude, but caution: the
herd mind is a *very* dangerous thing.

X

Originally Posted by drvosjeca

BLA BLA BLA BLA... This is all i can see here.

Sorry for being rude, but if backlinks would be worthless there would not be so many people making seriouse money by selling them. Dont you think so?

[Luke112346]

Fresh content is good or could even be considered great, but its only one piece of the puzzle

[timwilson38]

Can not believe the statement that back links are worthless, content is important but without back links your SERP would not increase and you won't get the link value required for PR.

[StoneWilson]

13rd for me, but even your website site rank #1 you shouldn't so sure that "backlinks are worthless", afterall, you're using blogger, it's really tricky.

[dburdon]

Different search term categories have different needs for fresh content. Some categories have very little need for fresh content, from blogs or anywhere else.