Just Link Building is enough to get rankings in Search Engines?

[maddy58]

Someone told me that by doing only link building we can get 1st page rankings on Search Engines. Is it right?




Social Media Optimization

[C.Rebecca]

Link building is a very important off-page optimization technique but it’s just the tip of the ice-berg.

You need to employ other off-page optimization techniques too to push your website in search results. To complement link building technique,
- Submit your RSS feeds to feed directories
- Submit your website to social bookmarking sites
- Participate in social networking sites and related communities for a good social media reputation
- Write guest posts for related blogs to your niche.
- Write emails to other bloggers/ website owners in your niche offering them to guest post
- Write content that is deliberately designed to attract links towards it.

[troycoolie]

It's true that on the basis of Off-Page Optimization itself you can achieve top ranks on search engines but then that has to be of great quality not just the quantity.

[shane]

yeah it really depends. If your on-page is good it might work, and if also you get alot of good quality links..

[jerryvannorman]

Link building help to get rank in the search engine but we not just depend on it we must adapt to what is latest and new.

[salgolden]

Absolutely NOT TRUE!!    Google is getting smarter and smarter and knows that people actually hire companies to build phony links so they're giving links less weight - Original, Quality content is the way to go 

[anandiphone]

No by just doing link building we cannot get good ranking in search engines, we need good content and perfect search engine friendly website with good on page optimization.

[mel]

of course link building is important, but alone it is not enough. You need to invest some time in your on-site seo also. It is just as important!

[Swati]

Get good quality links from relevant sites. These sites may be related to your area of work. Keep adding content on your own website so that over a period of time your site just gets better and  you'll find yourself faring better in the searches.

[hjones]

This is both true and untrue. It really depends on the onsite optimization of the site, but also depends on what kind of keywords you are talking about. You can write a blog post and call it ahdkshda, and get ranked #1 for ahdkshda just because nobody else has ever written about that before. If you are targeting any kind of high traffic or short tail keyword, link building most likely won't be enough. If you are targeting a low search volume long tail keyword, you may be able to get on the first page as long as you have real actual content on the page you are trying to get ranked for that keyword. Either way, it would be pointless to waste time and money on link building for a website that isn't optimized. You at least need to optimize the title tags, add content hierarchy, and have at least a paragraph of original content.