Can a website rank without links?

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Yes you can! I made a new site s few months ago and I was ranking on page 1 next day. Domain was fresh, the domain name was an EMD for the keyword and keyword had easy competition. I was ranking at 8th position on first page with next day without any backlinks. Made a few tumblr links and soon it was on Top 5! It’s all about competition. You can rank a medium difficulty keyword without ANY backlink.
 
Very difficult but you could rank within top 100 results with optimized content.
 
you can but only for your own brands. Like "blackhatworld mass poster". This will rank easily but it's not about ranking, it's about ranking and banking. Reminds me of a thread few months back where someone was bragging about shit ton of traffic from pinterest or something and when asked was it converting he went berserk lol.
 
OWSTeam said:
Is it really possible? Someone said "Yes, it can. If you've got your site set up in webmasters with a sitemap, Google will crawl your site. You don't need links from other sites to rank. It just helps. A lot."
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Here ill bust another one of these myths
I have sites which get over 1000+ uniques a day with 0 links ONLY from organic traffic + these sites are damn splogs
I didnt do any on page seo just on-site seo that affects the entire site and of course individual pages indirectly


randybishop said:
You can, but your onsite seo and site structure needs to be incredibility well done.
Also, all the content has to be superb with tons of helpful info so visitors stay on the
site so it is low bounce. So, basically a very well done authority site which will cost $$$.
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tell that to my splogs with no single word of self written content
of course doing that may help but this is not necessary to rank and get organic traffic in bulk

moonlighsunligh said:
You can sometimes rank for easy to medium keywords if you have a lot of content on site (from my own testing). A lot of content means 100-200+ optimised articles. The more the better. They can be 400-500 words each no need for 1000+ words.
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unnecessary
of course doing that may help but this is not necessary to rank and get organic traffic in bulk

There are so many keywords with tens of thousands of searches which target first tier countries and do not need links to rank
just most people dont know how to find them and those that do keep their mouth shut and the on site seo + siloing needed to rank

Carry on
 
Well.. according to google on seo is the best way to rank :D:D:D
 
if you think with 0 links no you cant at least i never seen that, but there are niches (some amazon for example) where competition is so low that you can rank on page 2 or 3 just when post good content, but to move from there you will to need some link power..
 
My Bad... I thought that OP wanted to ask if his site ranks even if its qwdfwetzro.com without doing anything. ofc if he submits the site manually to the SE it might actually work.
 
MisterF said:
Did you not bother reading the post 3 above yours by @living2xl ?
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I did, and am aware of these types of sites (and methods, likes what ViperChill preach).
These sites could get links from ordinary people, marketplaces, search engines etc.

At its core, Google (And other SE's) rely mainly on backlinks to discover and rank web pages.
 
for a good kw you will not rank without links .....
 
OWSTeam said:
What makes the different between low quality and high quality backlinks?
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You can check out the quality of links from the metrics rate and how much referring domains it has and valuable content with social shares as you choose a good site it has a relevant images posted with exact match of your KW and obviously the OBL of the blogs should be lower for getting more link juice,and for your question i hope not possible only if you KW has no competition and you have to maintain you blog with own content that most relevant to your niche and most important is on-page seo..
 
OWSTeam said:
Is it really possible? Someone said "Yes, it can. If you've got your site set up in webmasters with a sitemap, Google will crawl your site. You don't need links from other sites to rank. It just helps. A lot."
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Yes it's Possible and You can :cool:
 
Dokezar said:
Yes you can! I made a new site s few months ago and I was ranking on page 1 next day. Domain was fresh, the domain name was an EMD for the keyword and keyword had easy competition. I was ranking at 8th position on first page with next day without any backlinks. Made a few tumblr links and soon it was on Top 5! It’s all about competition. You can rank a medium difficulty keyword without ANY backlink.
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Here is your answer op. If hardly build any links for any of my websites. I even shared a case study about this specific question. However, Keyword research is the most important factor, then covering the whole niche with at least +25 articles and Prefect website structure. Give it some time and you will be in top 10 easily, getting traffic and earning money. Now, give it 2 - 5 links ( this is the highest number of links I ever built) to reach 1st position.
 
Generally is so difficult.But try with viral content and domain..Then this may be
possible
 
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