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Is it a wise choice to completely avoid link building?

by Ajmain Akil Abid
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Hi, I'm Ajmain. My Blog is almost a year. I did never create any backlink for my blog. I just focused on quality content and keyword research. But the result isn't that good. I can hardly rank in google with a low competitive keyword. Any though on this?
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  • Profile picture of the author DABK
    You need a page where you can sell something.

    1 page that people find does you a lot better than hundreds of quality posts that no one sees.

    Create 1 post, then focus on getting backlinks.

    You already know that.


    QUOTE=Ajmain Akil Abid;11618237]Hi, I'm Ajmain. My blog age is almost a year. I did never create any backlink for my blog. I just focused on quality content and keyword research. But the result isn't that good. I can hardly rank in google with a low competitive keyword. Any though on this?[/QUOTE]
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  • Profile picture of the author expmrb
    Focus on keywords which have low competition but have good demand in Google.


    Building links alone won't help if you don't have a strategy.


    As, already suggested start working on one page first. Get ranked it well. And then shift your focus.
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  • Profile picture of the author Nadeemktk
    Completely NO. Backlinks can be taken as customer reviews about your blog. If internet world is talking about you it means you have some values in the eyes of Google. If no backlinks means no one care about your site, so avoiding backlinks is not a good choice.
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  • Profile picture of the author JBS786
    Hi Ajmain, one of the best ways to get rankings is to get back links. However, they need to be from high authority websites, so getting 100's of back links from low or non ranking websites is far worse than just having one good back link from a really good reputable site. It will greatly increase your blogs ranking.
    However, as well as back links you also need to make sure you have keywords in your title tags, a good meta description, good content. Also SEO experts tell us the percentage of keywords that are relevant to your content needs to be between 1% to 2%.
    I hope this helps. For greater details I actually did a blog on this a couple of days ago where it mentions back links and keywords in more detail. Hope it helps
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    • Profile picture of the author DABK
      No SEO expert ever said anything even remotely close to 1 to 2% of keywords need to be relevant to your content, not even at the height if keyword density craze.

      A backlink from a good, reputable site is not that useful unless it comes from a page that's got some backlinks of its own.



      Originally Posted by JBS786 View Post

      Hi Ajmain, one of the best ways to get rankings is to get back links. However, they need to be from high authority websites, so getting 100's of back links from low or non ranking websites is far worse than just having one good back link from a really good reputable site. It will greatly increase your blogs ranking.
      However, as well as back links you also need to make sure you have keywords in your title tags, a good meta description, good content. Also SEO experts tell us the percentage of keywords that are relevant to your content needs to be between 1% to 2%.
      I hope this helps. For greater details I actually did a blog on this a couple of days ago where it mentions back links and keywords in more detail. Hope it helps
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  • Profile picture of the author fastreplies
    Originally Posted by Ajmain Akil Abid View Post

    I did never create any backlink for my blog. I just focused on quality content and keyword research
    It's kind of refreshing to find people who are following G's backlinks wishes.
    Sure years ago when G. has been using backlinks as criteria to assign PRs
    building backlinks race made sense but since G. realized that it created
    cottage industry monster, G. decided enough is enough and in order to bring
    under control that fiasco, G. decided to curb reliance on backlinks as a main
    SERP source and have moved it benchmark to more reliable Algorithms.

    Yes backlinks are paying some role in determination of likelihood and relations
    between site's pages and content and not to determine something G. effectively
    removed like a cancer from it body years ago.



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  • Profile picture of the author miumiu2020
    ahrefs has created good video on this. There are lots of factors why you cannot reach Top, such as kw difficulty, your domain authority, how advanced at kw research you are, and if you take into account search intent and NLP, and so on.
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  • Profile picture of the author Medon
    My bet is that backlinking is still relevant. Google changes each day. what he disregards today may gain traction tomorrow. So all SEO experts are just playing the game with cards closer to their chests. So Do everything google likes and let him select what he prefers. It's my view though
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