Interesting Article on Relative Value of SEO Tactics
by Chris on Oct.14, 2009, under analytics, search marketing
Rand at SEOMozBlog published an interesting post on the relative value of various SEO tactics depending on the age and maturity of your website.
Here’s one:
This chart shows how the value of on-page optimization declines as the level of competition in the search results increases, and that at a certain point a SE will begin relying more heavily on inbound links to determine position than on on-page/site factors to determine position. This jives with our own experience with the relative importance of these tactics.
Several other good charts in the full article here.
April 2nd, 2010 on 3:08 pm
I’ll agree with this from any one particular search term. Perhaps even for an entire keyword vertical.
However, if one considers producing great content, tools, services, etc. as part of optimization then links can be built by people who love those resources. Thus one would argue that the chicken comes before the egg.
One must do something remarkable, in order to receive a mark from a credible source.
I love the discussion that ensued on SEOmoz form this chart.