Comments on: Is Backlinking “Dead”? Can You Rank Your Site in Google Without Backlinks?

By: Amandeep kaur

Amandeep kaur — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:24:24 +0000

Thanks for sharing that great information

By: Vicky

Vicky — Mon, 09 May 2016 15:54:37 +0000

I absolutely agree with you that it’s a cause and effect scenario.
Some that “promote” backlinks with their own back linking products, write very well written, lengthy in depth content that are very “sharable”. Now are they getting credit and rank high in the search engines because of their great content or for their backlinks… they will claim backlinks but it’s most likely the engagement and great content that get’s them the good rankings, content that’s “shareable”. The cause and effect scenario…

Yes, quality content will always “win”. I’m working with a client right now in the medical field. He loves to write and share his experience as a doctor. He writes very engaging informative content, without any focus on backlinks, keywords or other “metrics”. He has thousands of visitors daily from writing great quality content… again this confirms the importance of content.

Thank you for your input and feedback Kyle!!

Vicky

By: Kyle

Kyle — Mon, 09 May 2016 04:05:23 +0000

Write engaging content, people will read it. When people read it, they are more likely to create dialogue within your content in the form of comments. Once you have set those “hooks” so to speak, the share value of your content will continue to go up.

The premise of any share worthy content is a well thought out, thorough post that ENGAGES and CAPTIVATES the respective readership. Those that are touting the importance of backlinks and the fact that it is the premise of all rankings online are the same people that are writing incredibly thorough and well thought out content that is WHAT PRECISELY Google is looking for and what gets shared.

It is a cause and effect scenario. The byproduct of the content was people want to share it (ie, backlinks). So when someone attempts to reverse engineer the content, sure enough, they see backlinks.

I have spent a incredible amount of time writing content over the years and my highest ranking sites are those I have never worked even the slightest on backlinks. Not a minute. Rather I focused on what Google wants and what Google has built their entire business off. Quality content. They will continue to chase it and they will continue to find the ways to find and rank the best, most relevant, and share worthy content. Backlinks will become less and less important as time goes and and as Google gets a better handle on human language and interaction metrics.

By: Vicky

Vicky — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 17:39:43 +0000

Hi Yvonne,

A backlink is simply a link pointing back to your site from another site. Yes social media, is one example.
That’s great focus, quality content that includes keywords. Over time that will generate natural backlinks, when people like what you share they will be happy to link to your site…

Vicky

By: Yvonne

Yvonne — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 16:04:40 +0000

Hi Vicky,

I’m quite clueless about backlinking and all that stuff. Could you explain explicitly what it means? Do posting your post’s links on social media count as a backlink? I’m focusing on writing content for my website and keyword research.