Backlinks + PageRank + Content = ????????

[Simon - 1977]

Now, Im not the greatest SEO the world as ever seen, infact, Im not a average SEO but from what I have read and what I have seen if you build a site with a lot of content and make sure you have included keywords in the copy and add to that a lot of backlinks in google and sprinkle in a PR you should see your site near th etop of gogle for the keywords you have targeted.

It all seems simple!

But why is it at the moment none us this works on google, I have done searches recently and had resuts come back which don't mention the keyword, are short on content, no backlinks and a poor PR yet they apear before some of my sites on google.

Is this just a phase google is going through?

[Grumpus]

Couple things stick out from your formula. First thing is that "Backlinks + PageRank" doesn't really work because "Backlinks = PageRank".

How you format your content is critical, too. You've got title tags, header tags, emphasis tags (bold, italics), anchors, and so on - all things that aid in adding emphasis to your keywords. (But, if you go too far, you will start going back down in rankings).

There are a hundred or so different factors that go into ranking of a page. You've listed two (even though it looks like three). They are important and so much so that together they probably make up 50% or more of the equation. But there's still a lot more that goes into it.

If it were as easy as that, would there be so many SEO forums? Would there be so many heated debates about what is the most important? Would SEO be such a thriving industry?

Nope.

You've got a "start" on understanding it, but there's a long way to go.

G.

[Simon - 1977]

I realized after I submitted it the back links and Page ranks where the same thing, never mind, maths was never my strong point!!!