Content vs Backlinks: Which One is Better For Your Website?

There are many different strategies and techniques available for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) of a website, each of them effective in their own way. While it is neither practical nor possible to implement all of them, content and back-links have always been counted among the most important strategies for any website. Ideally, both of them should be exercised, but if it comes to prioritizing one of them, content will always gain the upper hand.

Let us see the reasons for this preference -

The purpose of back-links and content

Back-links from a high-authority website increase your brand awareness, as well as act as a vote of confidence for your own website.

Now, imagine that a user sees such back-link and decides to visit your website. There, if he finds that the content is not useful or relevant to him at all. It does not provide him any new information or does not convey how your solution can help them overcome a particular business challenge.

This will lead him to abandon your website. Therein lies the difference between the purpose of content and backlinks. Backlinks will merely serve to bring people to your website. Thereafter, it depends on the content to engage the visitors and encourage them to convert into leads which you can nurture into revenue-generating customers.

As a matter of fact, if your website does not already have high-quality content, you will find it nearly impossible to get a backlink from a reputed source. On the other hand, keyword-optimized and value-rich content has fairly high chances of ranking.

Content for site structure

Content is also integral for building your site structure. It enables your visitors easily traverse your website and access the information they want. Not only this, but this also helps search engine spiders to discover the most important topics your website is covering.

To conclude, backlinks are important for SEO and do help you rank, but only when the efforts for them are backed up by strong content. If you have to make a choice between the two, your best bet will always be to go for content. You can engage a digital marketing company if you need help to strategize and create quality content for your business.

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