If Content is the King, Then Who's the Queen?

King = Content
Queen = SEO
Prime Minister = Google / Yahoo / Bing /etc
Ministers = Social Medias
Guard = Password
Army Force = FB ads, google adsense, etc
Chamberlain = Paypal & Visa/Master credit card
PEOPLE = TRAFFIC

Now the kingdom success story is still depending on how the author (YOU) write it down!

Emperor is traffic.

So does this make you the court Jester?

SEO and High Quality Backlinking

I think that social media is the queen because no matter what it will always support you and be with you and your kingdom (blog). I did not select SEO as the queen because many times SEO cheats and queen never cheats

I think if content is king then sharing is queen. Having great content won't do much if nobody sees it. For that reason, how you share your content with targeted customers is so important. Sharing your content on social media is a most ideal approach to get your content read and shared.

Search engine optimization is the queen.

Context is queen. SEO is important for link building, ranking etc. but for example, if you post content on social media that is not in the right context - no amount of decent SEO will save your post from dropping into the pit never to be seen or engaged with.

Context is so, so important. Not only for platforms, but for your audience.

Social Media

SEO is the quenn.

If Content is king, than do-follow back-link is Queen. If you do not build link on content, than content is west for SEO. you must balance both things egualy in your webpage.

The one who reeps the rewards. She's living the good life.
That's the fun part about this is the ability to give money away for good things. It's not so bad when your not trading your time away 40, 50 hours per week just to get by. It's a little harder to give back mostly I feel cause of the mindset.

The phrase "content is king" is generally thrown about in SEO circles, and usually by people who have no clue how to rank a page and subscribe to the "if you build it, they will come" nonsense of just writing great content will get you ranked in Google. In terms of SEO, content is not even remotely close to king.

For any phrase that is at least moderately competitive, I can rank a page with total junk content with enough good quality links. I cannot rank a page with great content with no links.

If you are talking about just internet marketing in general, there is nothing more important than traffic. It really doesn't matter how you generate traffic, just that you generate targeted traffic. Again, content is still not king because if nobody sees your content, it really doesn't matter. Even with really shitty conversions, you can still make money if you flood a page with traffic.

Nesha,

From a 2014 thread:

"Content is king, distribution is queen, and she wears the pants in the family."

Steve

I think quality is the queen. Without quality content is nothing. So my vote to quality.

Elizabeth?

Gotta figure the whole royalty analogy is subject to change.

Kings an' queens kinda die, in spitea their robes an' scepters.

That is why nobility demands princes.

King Henry VIII had that problem so bad, he was prepared to rewrite his content over an' over -- an' he still lost out.

But see, I figure princesses are kinda cool.

Kiss enough frogs as we are exercisin' our lips for future adventures -- et voila!

Prince!

That makes us kingmakers in addition to bein' creatively transformative an' possessin' super smooth skin.

The queen?

The guy in a dress, high heels and makeup..... Pretty easy to spot......

Shouldn't the question be:

If 'content is king' is a trite, overused and useless phrase, why are we trying to create another similar phrase?

Shouldn't we just let 'content is king' die and bury it in the middle of a moonless night in a place so far from everything nobody'll bother to go and dig it out?

Freddie was and still is Queen.

I was thinking RuPaul...

It really doesn't matter who or what is king or queen, whether you worship at the altar of SEO or revel in an orgy of social media.

The name of the game, coin of the realm is attention. Attentive eyeballs are the only things that matter.

If you post epic content, do all the onpage SEO, post it to every social media outlet available, and still no one sees it, does it exist?

Your website is the Queen. Whenever she goes offline due to a late night server error... make sure you spank her for her misbehavior.

This is a hard one. I think it partially depends on your monetization strategy and how you plan on driving traffic.

A few ideas - traffic, Seo optimization, social media, links

King - Backlinks

Hi,

Fun is king

Do something you really, really, really love doing. Creating and connecting becomes easier and easier and easier when you follow your fun. Creating content and making friends with folks who dig your fun through different networking/marketing techniques is the way to go.

So, focus on the fun first. That energy carries you to places where few reach. Maybe even here with me, in the Mediterranean, in beautiful Cyprus

Ryan Biddulph
Blogging From Paradise

That's a great way to break it down, definitely noted.

The Queen are women with big breast and asses. Use them to advertise and your conversion will increase 300x.

According to me if content is the King, then in all probability conversion optimisation should be termed as the Queen for it's been disregarded time and again and has been reduced to an unacknowledged key factor. Though I feel it should have got it's share of eminence long back, nevertheless it's never too late to mend things..

Content is King , Queen and the whole damn kingdom

Without it you've got nothing

Content is the king and your marketing effort is the queen be it SEO,PPC or any other traffic source .

Both the king and the queen need to survive and one cannot survive with out the other if you want to be successful in online marketing

The bottom line is the bottom line.

If Content is King, then Backlink is the most suitable to be Queen, because good content coupled with good backlink will propel you to the top of the Search Engines.

Content is King, you are the writer of peoples choice. Remember the Town Cryer, think of yourself as one. Imagine the people in front of you waiting to hear your words, give then the content but with the emphasis on emotion and vigor. It not what we did it what we have for you to be inspired with future excitement.
Once been told I had no future by a specialist, it is easy for you to be negative. Instead as a town cryer.
"We have stories of grim news, and no that was yesterday. Today is tomorrow's history, make sure it's worth reading with the emotion to make inspire and provoke. It might be content, but the Town Cryer does not do it without emotion

If Content is the king, I would have to say, Context is the queen.

Both cannot stay without each other.

And both are more powerful when they are with each other.

I think that a great product needs to feature in this royal analogy somewhere! There's no point having great content, SEO all present and correct, quality backlinks being produced and having nothing of substance to back it all up with.

*squee*

This post is turnin' out to be the IM equivalenta dressin' up.

But I guess if we are gonna go fully romantic on the whole royalty analogy, we gotta agree there might be a perfect arrangement someplace.

King, Queen, Princess, Wizard, Unicorns, Benevolent Dragon.

Man, that whole kingdom is so rosy an' divine.

But you know how it goes with alla the best fairy tales.

One minute you got chirpy squirrels singin' in evry tree, next minute, evil hordes come a-rompin'.

Or the Princess gets tricked by a witch.

Or the King transforms into a deluded nudist.

If content is king, then what are the festerin' shibboleths gonna suck all life from Happyland?

Gotta figure any kinda traditional lineage deal gonna be susceptible to changes beyond its borders.

Assoomin' goodly knights an' feisty warrior maidens can forever keep at bay all evil comers, biggest problem you got is peacetime.

If the world moves on, who wants Happyland any more?

Man, they are jus' doin' the same ol' stuff, over an' over — an' it is so tired lookin'.

All established brands hit this content conundrum — how to preserve the integritya the Happyland nation while remainin' relevant in the facea changes beyond the border.

So I guess you do not need regular incursions into your territory by armed lizard beests for thereta be any threat to your "content".

Time is the harshest ravager ever.

I guess.. rankings or SERPs are the queens or queen. If you are a king, you have best ladies in the queue to be your queen. Similarly if you have good and optimized contents, your chances for getting higher ranks are max.

content => King

maybe.... copywriting => the Queen? ;-)

backlinks, of course. as this makes Google see good about your site

This thread is pointless, everyone know's I'm the King.

Queen? We don't need no stinking Queen!

Nice reply and worth a thought.

king = content
queen = buyers list

traffic is the queen, that attracts money!!!

king = content
queen = getting you ass up and START something !!

I often wonder if content really is king because I will often find a great site with a lot of great articles very well written way back on page 10 and they are older sites. I will compare them to the sites on page one and often it isn't that the sites on page one aren't good because they are but they have thousands of backlinks which google claims doesn't matter as much but they really do. However the articles on the site back on page 10 I believe are much better then what is on page one so it has to be something. Is it the amount of content the style of how it is put together because in many cases I will find sites with not much content living on page 1 for years and don't understand if content is king they why are some of these sites on page on at all.

Hard work and perseverance.

seo will be the queen for sure