Comments on: Links Aren’t As Important As You Thought

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:37:46 +0000

@Dustin Radin – Very true, I think it will always remain a combination of factors…

By: Dustin Radin

Dustin Radin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:15:43 +0000

Interesting discussion…it reminds me that search engines don’t want one factor that can be consistently duplicated to gain high organic rankings. Whenever such a factor is discovered it gets abused (i.e.- meta tags, keyword stuffing, links, no follow) and Google quickly intercedes to stop the manipulation. Its a whole combination of factors.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:01:26 +0000

@Stacey Morgan Smith – Great point, building links naturally is the name of the game!

By: Stacey Morgan Smith

Stacey Morgan Smith — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:22:32 +0000

It’s crazy to pursue quality links anyway if your site has poor content, duplicate page titles, and slow loadtime.

A pleasant side effect of onpage SEO is that a site then builds links naturally.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:47:00 +0000

@Shadab Malik – Very good point, domain age is very important since this impacts the trust factor in the eyes of the search engines…

By: Shadab Malik

Shadab Malik — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:13:03 +0000

Well this all very logical. However, there is just too much theory on Links now. I can quote SEO giants and gurus offering advise of concentrating just on links for better rankings especially when its a new website. However, what I have been noticing is that SEO has become more of a domain age factor keeping every other aspect normally equal.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:15:12 +0000

@Christopher P West – Thanks for your question, here is a an entire post to answer your question…hope it helps! )
http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/06/30/building-links-2/

@Jason – SEO Derby – Brooks – I agree with you 100%, you need both aspects as part of your total long term SEO effort, please refer to the last sentence in the post:
“But if you do great on-page SEO then build solid links to those pages, you can do very well over time.”

Thanks for reading!