About this Video
When it comes to SEO, link building has always been crucial. Some might say that SEO without link building is still possible. Yet, whenever you find an article that shows how to improve SEO rankings without backlinks, all the strategies eventually point back to how one can score backlinks.
Is SEO without backlinks actually achievable, or is it just a myth dressed up as advice? Link building is connected to everything else you do in SEO: good content, solid structure, and the right metas and schemas are what make link building happen organically in the first place. But if you're chasing links without the fundamentals in place, you're just building links in order to get links built.
00:00 Do we need Links?
01:16 Can you SEO without Link Building?
02:33 What Precedes Link Building?
03:14 It's all Connected!
04:03 The Fallacy of SEO without Link Building
04:28 Can You Rank without Backlinks?
05:39 The Endgame
Any time you approach off-page SEO to get noticed by Google, you will eventually find yourself looking for backlinks. Which means SEO still does, and will seemingly continue to, rely on link building for any and every website.
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What you'll learn
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Whether SEO without link building is really possible
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What needs to be in place before you build links
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How content, structure, metas and schema connect to link building
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Why off-page SEO still comes back to backlinks
Key moments
Questions from this episode
Can you rank without backlinks?
The video argues that SEO without link building is mostly a myth: even strategies that claim to skip backlinks end up helping you earn them.
What should come before link building?
Good content, a solid site structure, and the right meta tags and schema markup. These are what make other sites link to you on their own.
Why doesn't building links on their own work?
Without the fundamentals in place, you're only building links to get links built, and they won't lift rankings the way they should.
