Link Building. Is it Really that Important?

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Hey guys.

I bring this question to you because I've been working on IM for nearly a year now. I always hear backlink backlink backlink. Well Recently I was visiting my grandpa (who has been selling products online since the internet came out) He talked to me about how he learned SEO.

Basically just working with the company the was building his website. He basically said he could get any niche site or more category based site on the top of google in a week or less without any backlinks.

This struck me as interesting. So I took what he told me and applied it to a niche site of mine and within a week. Bam first page of google.

So how important is Backlinking? In my opinion it's going to get you from the top page to the top spot. But what people are missing is there on page SEO.
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  • I've had badly written articles get on the first page of google with no backlinks, but they were for really low ranking keywords.
  • Truthfully in Micro Niche blogging I believe you can get on the first page with just a few steps of on page stuff. Which I'm hoping to release in a new digital download soon. But mainly if you have Your title, header tags, keywords, description, and a few other small things. You chould get a first page spot. Like I said hopefully I will have a new guide on how to do this with wordpress in the coming weeks.
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    • It really all depends on the level of competition.

      Niches that have less competition levels then you can most likely get away with the on page seo factors like url, title, tags, content.

      For niches with a higher competition level you will find that a lot of web masters will already have done their on page SEO factors and turn to off page factors to rank their sites higher....this is where the backlinks come into play.
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  • Some niches yes. any niche? Totally bogus. Please don't write things just to promote an upcoming ebook.
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  • What ways have you had luck with building links? I didn't mind 3 way links program, but spending $50 a month isn't worth it to me.
  • I'd be curious what micro niche your grandfather was succeeding in. And no, I have no desire to challenge whatsoever.
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    • His sites are not Micro Niche. They are roughly a million dollar per year in sales sites. He has 2 I believe.
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  • Depends on the competition. Some low hanging fruit is crammed full of people pumping content and links at their sites like there is no tomorrow, while other low hanging fruit can be plucked with one well-written article.
  • One can get in to first page quickly for low competition keywords, but how long can you sustain high SEPR? Some new entrant with good one page SEO and strong back link juice can beat you in a month.

    Back links brings in COMPETITIVE Advantage.
  • on page seo is important but in reality link building is more important at least early on.
  • Is this serious?
  • don't we still care about getting traffic through links from other sites and not just google??
  • Are your chosen keywords competitive? If not, you have a big chance in going on the number 1 spot of SERPs.
  • Dear, Without backlinks you cannot get search engine position neither can get Page rank for your website. And without both of them, you cannot gt natural traffic.
  • If you're going after competitive keywords then yes it's important to build links. But if you're going after long tail low competition keyword phrases then you can rank well without building backlinks.
  • As stated in numerous posts above, it all depends on the competition. IMHO there are very few low competition markets that provide long term commercial intent. Keywords with high commercial intent are competitive and hence the need for backlinking.

    To sum up yes you can get on page one for low competition keyword but will you be satisfied with the 1 cent adsense clicks?

    Regards

    Nigel
  • link building is really important if you want to get rank for your keywords
  • Yes linkbuilding is VERY important depending on how competitive your niche is. Tell him to try to get to page 1 for "jobs" in a month. If he does that I will eat my shorts!!
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    • Someone has already done an on page SEO plugin for Wordpress... His name is Daniel... Google SEOPressor for more details. I absolutely love this plugin by the way!

      Yes it can get you to page one for some niches... but for most competitive ones, like everyone said above, you need to add off page SEO like link building as well.
  • Its always a good idea to backlink, I like to post my money site to some forum posts to people with problems related to my niche, this way I get backlinks and some targeted traffic.
  • Yes, it all comes down to how competitive a KW is. End of story.

    And to make it simple and fair, on-page SEO (KWs in title, tags, as well as solid unique content on KW and LSI, etc.) is important in the sense that it's a multiple or variable in the formula of ranking...if you get it good (let's say a higher number in the formula), with all other things being equal, yes, you will rank higher than the other guy with worse on-page SEO given the same links.

    And perhaps you can outrank him even if you only have say 20 links, and he has 400. No one knows the exact formula, but it tends to work that way. So if your on-page "multiple" or "variable" is super high, you can definitely get by with a lot less links (of the same quality) than your competitor.

    But then again, if your competitors on page 1 already all have a 9/10 on the on-page factors, you definitely need to get more off-page juice to beat them.
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  • ya link building is to much impotent for get ranking
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    • " He basically said he could get any niche site or more category based site on the top of google in a week or less without any backlinks. "
      Hogwash
  • I'm guessing if your father's site has top quality information and products at great prices, then he's getting organic backlinks.

    It's kinda like if I were giving away a free ipod to everyone who filled out a form on my site with no strings attached. I would get about a MILLION backlinks in no time without doing any "backlinking" on my own.

    The problem is, not everyone can give away free ipods, or in your father's case, great products at great prices. Some of us can only offer, great products at fair market value. Link baiting is great, but it is not as easy as so many people imply it to be.
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  • Link building is extremely important in getting your site ranked high on search engines the process of link building is not just one of numerous SEO strategies that are employed on the World Wide Web today in fact, it is crucial to the success of any website trying to compete in the technological age. Even if you have no other SEO methods in place, your site should at least work on building a reliable base of back links there are few different strategies and techniques to do this.Write articles about your website or ideas.Submit your website for users to review, free,Post Free Classifieds.Social book marking it help us increase ranking.....
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    • Its funny because what your father does for example..ISSSS getting backlinks.

      Its just a different way of getting them. Creating the buzz gets so many backlinks you wouldnt believe it. For example how many backlinks do you think facebook buys..none..but im sure they get thousands a week. Why? because everyone is talking about facebook! think about it..
  • In my point of view Link Building is very important from others, this will determine on how your articles works on Search Engines or how strong it will be depending on your titles, contents and the competitive keywords that you have in your story.
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    • I do agree that on page is crucial, but off page is just as important as well..
  • Answer: It depends on the competition.
  • For low competition keywords you can get in the top in a week, but try to do the same with "credit cards", "debt consolidation" or some other niche like that
  • Unfortunately if the niche is the least bit competitive you need backlinks. There is no quick way to ranking well without consistent relevant links.
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    • If you have a high PR and really good on-page SEO, then Google will most likely rank you high without any backlinks to that new page.

      However, getting a high PR needs high quality backlinks as well. And if you don't start building backlinks just because your ranking well now, you'll be easily crushed with a competitor who knows SEO well.
  • Sure, on-page SEO is an important first step, but on the flip side, I've had sites that, simply because they had so many high-quality backlinks, ranked on the first page for keywords that didn't even appear in the title, h1, h2, or any of the meta tags...

    And as a side note, tools like SEnuke wouldn't cost $127/mo. if backlinks weren't important, and they have plenty of subscribers. And that's just one of the hundreds of pieces of software built solely for backlink building.
  • link building is a must if you want to keep the rank intact for any keyword over 10,000+/month search.
  • You can't get no where without backlinks.. must have.
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  • linkbuilding boost your site visibility over the internet...the more quality links you have the better
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    • Link building is important for a site to improve rank in search results. You can increase your site's backlinks which are significant factors for increasing keyword rankings in serp, more and more traffic and even page rank. Quantity and quality links together with good content will help your site rank well in serp
  • The link building is of top most priority to keep your blog alive.Without that you can be left with left traffic.This is the one of the best ways ever to increase your PR in google.
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    • Back links are vital to increase PR of the but niche back links are not enough back links must be qualitative that will be beneficial for you...........
  • Well, through my experience I have seen miracles in ranking the #1 spot in Google. But maintaining it for long time is a pain in neck without backlink. Good quality backlink will give the power to the website on building trust, authority in the eyes of Google. And you may rank to top for long time no matter how many people are trying to give competition.

    I have seen websites ranking for long time just because of the backlinks for the keywords they have not written at all in the page anywhere. But most of the links are pointing to that website with the keyword.

    Don't take granted for my word. Type 'click here' in the google. you will see adobe sites ranking for that term. and it is ranking for that keyword for more than 10 years.
  • Building backlinks is important in my opinion especially early on.

    You gotta start somewhere. It might not be very important once a site gets established to a certain point.

    I would not write off building some links as it is very easy.
  • It is my belief that one of the primary building blocks of the search engine algorithm's besides relevant content, is the number of sites linking back to your website. So, think of a house, before the foundation goes up, there is the footing. Therefore, I would consider inbound links part of the foundation to SEO. That's just my opinion though.
  • oh I forgot "in a week or less as well" LOL. Your grandad is just having fun with you or you need to come up with a better more believable product. This ain't goin fly round these parts.
  • Wow, a lot of responses to this. Is it important? Is it ever! Quite simply, search engines, like Google®, aren't trusting what you say your website is about, instead they're asking other websites their opinion as to what your website is about. Utilizing off-page search engine optimization includes continuous, ongoing link building from other websites back to your website. When this link-building occurs, it pushes your website to the top of the search engine rankings. Offpage factors are essential and key to getting you ranked at the top.
  • No links only works for really low competition keywords. OK, if you have a really really strong and trusted website, you can get away with a bit more difficult keywords. But otherwise - links are still the thing.
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    Link Building. Is it Really that Important?

    Hey guys. I bring this question to you because I've been working on IM for nearly a year now. I always hear backlink backlink backlink. Well Recently I was visiting my grandpa (who has been selling products online since the internet came out) He talked to me about how he learned SEO.