What’s More Important: Content or Backlinks?

If you had a brand-new domain and a limited budget, where would you spend most of it: high-quality content or backlinks? Interested to know what has actually worked for you recently.

I think the combination of both is what really matters. Content gives a blog value, while backlinks help it grow.

Backlinks with good content

Content comes first for me, then build useful, wellnoptimized pages and then gradually invest in relevant backlinks instead of buying a large number of links early on.

For a new domain, I’d put more money into content first. No point building a bunch of links if the site doesn't have much worth ranking yet.
Once you have some good pages, then start adding links slowly and see how it goes.

I’d put most of the budget into content first Once the site has a good base I’d use the remaining budget for a few relevant backlinks rather than buying a lot at once

In my opinion content is much important then backlinks I prioritize content over backlinks. Having a brand new domain with limited budget I suggest you to spend most of the money in building high quality content. Once you had a 20 to 30+ solid content and you knew which topics are getting good responses or impression you can gradually increase the backlink budget around the pages with better potential. If the content is weak the backlinks can help a page to get attention but will not fix the underlaying issue so solid content is most important than backlinks.