SEO or Content first?

If you have a very good content, you can even forget about SEO.. Some people can actually rank their websites even without a single backlink. It's all about quality content and proper formatting. If you have a great content, people will visit all your pages and will return to your site. Google will acknowledge such activities and will give your site more value...

Google is like human. If your visitors love your site, Google will love it too..

I would say have quality contents FIRST before SEO, because Search Engine love new and good quality contents

* Tips: But don't only focus on SEO, do other ways of getting traffic methods,

Content, then seo.

Content is the backbone of your SEO system. It would be like running ads for a site not built yet. However you can do some things that take time like getting index etc... To get the ball rolling.

you can start linkbuilding to be honest just make sure to continually add quality content to your site

Content is more vital than SEO....I have had plenty of micro niche blogs that will easily get tons of results just because of the tags in various articles I had written. If you are in a more competitive niche (like furniture) then SEO can be just as important as content if you are not doing any promoting; which you should be doing.

Build a good content first, then optimize your content... Do SEO and update your site of good quality links at least 1-2times a week. This way your readers can catch up with your new contents.

You can provide as much content as you can but you have to provide it on continously for better indexing, better ranking and better earning.

Based on my experience, let the recent content settle for some time and let it get indexed naturally, don't do aggressive link building just yet.. also don't over-optimize your articles. go for 1% keyword density or less as to the recent Google Update, they are closely watching for some sites that are obviously aggressive on their ranking campaigns..

Use social qualifiers as anchor text like "check them out, see the article here" etc. when building links so that It will appear natural to Google.

Hope it helps.


Cheers,
Al

Content is king in search engine optimization world. If your site have good content, all search engines will love your site and rank your site at top on their search results. So, keep concentrate on your site content and update more content regularly.

I generally do my pages like this:
Content: Then let google index it and see how the SERP handles it
Content: I can never seem to get the page perfect the first time around, will tweak a few things I see that can improve the SERP. Might even need a 301 if I need to change the address name to better suit it.
If there isn't much competition I can generally get to within page 3 in about a 4 to 6 weeks.

The reason I do this is because from my brief experience I can get a better handle on what people are searching for through the logs and can tweak the page to be more of what users are looking for. I will also then write 1 or 2 supporting pages and link them in the main article, this I find helps get my bounce rate pretty low.

If you provide content regularly then it would work for link building too, as your seo of site would start improving.

content. When you have great content, less SEO is fine

Content should be the first priority as "Content is King".
After you have a great fresh content then do SEO to boost up your ranking.

You always need quality content before even starting any seo

content is the king, if you have good content google will automatic index your website

Quality content is important.

No doubt content is important... But LINK BUILDING (i.e. SEO) will give you the desired result.

If you use the unique well optimized content then it will help you to get PR. So both are necessary. I focus on both and try to post a informative content.

I would suggest to focus on quality contents, while keeping the basic SEO on-page factors too... Then followed by off-page factors which are the backlinkings.

30 posts are good to go mate if you are not in a very highly competitive niche. Get your on page SEO right and start getting some high authority links back to your site.

Also start pushing social signals to the site. Make the flow of links looks natural.

Content is increasingly important from what I can see. Get fresh content up weekly and make sure you are creating some social noise around that content.

From what I have found and was taught content always comes first then work on optimizing.

1. Write contents
2. Use ON-PAGE technical to edit your contents.
3. Do OFF-Page work ( backlinks, ping, traffic...)

That's logical.

Site structure is part of SEO, so IMO the first thing you should do is, focus on getting your on-page SEO setup correctly.

Hello,

Good thrd, I would say min 30 quality posts on 6 months old blog/website do the job without seo.

Thanks,
VGM

I currently have ZERO content on my newest site but I'm already building my tier 1 properties. Gonna then backlink those with a 2nd tier.

I will finally do the actual money site that all of these will point to once i figure out what "quality content" is.

matter of fact, to everybody who replied QUALITY CONTENT in this thread, can you please tell me what that means?

I think anyone who wants a future online needs to focus more on good content than on good SEO.

Having said that, whoever said the two were mutually exclusive?

Why can't you have good content and good SEO?

The reason we're even having this debate is because a lot of people (not you obviously ) are looking for the shortcut.

There will always be spammers, scammers and other devious monsters on the Internet. The problem is that techniques such as spinning and scraping have become so widespread. Yes, even recognized as respectable methods in some circles.

I know there are people who are bound to disagree, but I don't like spinning and scraping. I believe it is a vile method devised only to take advantage of flaws in the search engines.

But isn't SEO about taking advantage of flaws in the search engines?

Well, I don't believe it is. SEO is about making sure that your content is displayed as prominently as possible in the search engines, not by taking advantage of the flaws in their algorithms, but by working with the search enignes. (Ok, I admit that is a bit naive!)

Thankfully, search enignes such as Google are now doing what they can to plug the holes in their algorithm.

Google, as an example, have one thing in mind - profit!

For them to achieve that they have to take care of their primary asset. Searchers.

These days they are under a huge amount of pressure by the likes of FaceBook, Twitter and Amazon. So, they have to provide a better service. The only way they can do that is to ensure that searchers find the content they are looking for on their first attempt.

So, if you want your page to be displayed on page one you need to do good by Google. The advantage is that doing that is also a good long term strategy.

Todays good content should still be pretty solid tomorrow. And if that is what you provide I believe you'll be fine in the long run.

As you may have guessed my vote goes to content

No SEO shit will help you if you don't have good and unique content...

Always quality original content before anything.

There is no doubt about it, fresh content helps in ranking too but if you are building quality links at the same time then you would get double benefit.

Content is gold for SEO then others.use on-page secondly and off-page very well at last for getting very good result.

if you have lots of unique and quality content then upload it and do seo side by side

If your site has fresh content and you are posting content regularly then it would be very helpful and you may have to do less SEO work.

unique and fresh content is necessary.

Yes Content is the first and important for any website. And content should be unique and fresh.

Both things are equals working on ranking contents makes effective by google new Updation
but we need to optimize that content, then need of optimizing thees two things are equally working.

Content is part of SEO as it is an ON-PAGE SEO. You have to build first a very good content, make people hooked on it. The second thing is the interface or design of your web page. The last thing you will do is to do the OFF-PAGE SEO which is link building and submissions. Content is one of the killers on the web.

i think the content is first because you will build your link for that content

SEO is the process which you need to do continuously. Keep posting unique content on your website and promote that page by using seo services. SEO will help you to rank your page high on search engine. For driving huge traffic to your website you need to first invest your time in publishing quality content.

Though, Content is must and need to have on first, SEO also needed at the same time for effective result. But, keep in mind that Posting unique content is also included in SEO. When it comes on-page and off-page SEO, writing unique and quality content is one of the methods in on-page SEO. I hope you got what i am trying to say.

A post per day is enough for quality on-page SEO because regular update in your site makes users expect something daily and maintaining unique visitors. Time for SEO is not measured and whenever you are free, try to build back links for your site but you should keep a good link velocity.

This is enough for your site for gradual promotion in SERP.