What is the most important aspect of SEO?

[jeff]

ost here what you think are the most important things, in order from most important to least important in SEO. Here's what i think, from most important to least:

- Related Back Links from high PR websites.
- Related Back Links from any websites.
- Other Back Links - related or unrelated (e.g. signature links on forums, etc).
- Unique Content
- Age of Domain
- Title Tags in HTML
- Lots of content
- Keyword(s) in the actual domain

[Slayerwarp]

Effective SEO is actually a combination of all of above. In my opinion related backlinks are most important, by far. Backlinks from high PR sites=high PR of your site, thats it.

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[webmasterneo]

I must agree with OVowell. The most important aspect are the related quality backlinks. And how do you get those backlinks? If you have good quality content that people will want to link back to and visit often.

[brandrocker]

IBL plays the most important role for long-term SEO gains. With good number of High PR IBLs you are definitely going to get a steady position in SERP. This is a must to rank higher particularly for highly competitive keywords.

[marketraisecorp]

Well For Successfull SEO the Following tips should be followed.

1)Forum postings.
2)Link exchanges.
3)Directory Submissions.
4)Article and Blog Submissions.
5)Keyword optimization.

[e-webtemplates]

looks like nobody concern about traffic. is PR directly related to traffic ?

[brandrocker]

looks like nobody concern about traffic. is PR directly related to traffic ?

What do you mean by traffic? Do you want to indicate search engine traffic?

[e-webtemplates]

I am talking abt common traffic , not only traffic from Search engines. traffic from Reffering sites as well.

One link with good traffic is far better than 100 dead links ( link dont produce any traffic).

[bigbyte]

PR (Page Rank) is not related to traffic. It is an indicator of what value Google thinks your pages have. Ranking and traffic rely on many other pieces as well. You can have a PR 6 website with maybe 200 visitors per day and you can have a PR 4 website with 1,000 visitors per day.

[webhostingUK]

SEO is all about making your site SE friendly so that you can enjoy organic traffic.
For me SEO is ongoing process and there are few basic requirements which will help your site rank better at SE.
You should concentrate on onpage and offpage optimization.
Links : relevant links helps you in SEO and to get targeted traffic, Keywords at Title and h1 tags help a lot for getting top at SERP

Forums, Directory submission, Press releases help to grow your business and most important update/add content to your site regularly.

[mbfootball47]

SEO requires all that but unique content is one of the most important features

[gscs]

I should say every part is importance when come to SEO.
How is your planning on implement the technique, whitout a planning is planning to lose. A good content is a good beginning, and you need to have a good strategy to make it live longer and profitable.

[c4cyber]

I think "Unique content" is the most important aspect among all.

Because, if your site doesn't have anything unique to attract visitors, no one will care about it's PR. what i have to do with a PR 8 site, if it doesn't provide me what i'm looking for. Infact i would prefer to visit a site with unique content and presentation, even if it has PR 0

Only search engines care for PR, humans don't.

[javablues]

I think quality content is also a factor. The content may not be unique but a quality one which to me spells out a big difference. Search engines' algorithms are designed to detect quality site contents.