Are Backlinks Still Important for Seo?

Hi every one it's been a while that I don't blog here, but I would like to share with you something related to Backlinks and SEO.

Backlinks are very important nowadays, backlinks will help your rank better.

That's also why top internet marketers like Neil Patel suggest building backlinks.

Kyle does not recommend backlinks he literally says they are not important anymore.

I'm starting to understand why Kyle says we shouldn't bother with backlinks.

He's very right.

Today I was doing some keyword research about a scam.

I had a look at the posts ranking on Google under the keyword I was researching.

Alex Sol and another WA member wrote great reviews about that scam but one person that was promoting a scam was on the first position.

That person review was like 200 words while Alex and the other WA member's posts were thourough and informative.

That guy's post was ranking number one simply because he had 1.6k backlinks (I checked on SemRush)

His post added no value and definitely did not deserve the first position regardless of the fact he's a scammer as he's promoting a program that promises too much money in 30 days

This only proved to me that Kyle is right about that the one should not focus on getting backlinks.

I am pretty sure Google one day will rank posts only based on the quality of the posts not backlinks.

Matt Cutts sort of said backlinks will become less important.

Watch the video here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC5FDzUh0P4

The Bottom Line

Google updates their algorithm very often

Poeple that use black hat techniques will be penalized

People that only rely on backlinks will be penalized

But people that only focus on QUALITY CONTENT will win forever.

That's why I think it's not worth it to try to build backlinks, let them come naturally.

This is my opinion

Any feedback or opinions are very welcome

Anis