Monday, February 3, 2014

Can You Rank In Google Without Content?

WebmasterWorld thread has a webmaster who has a site that doesn't have any real content. It is basically statistical downloads and specifications downloadable as PDFs or Zip files.
Can you rank web pages with no content at all in Google?
A good example of a page that ranks without having the exact words on it is the Adobe Reader page which ranks for [click here].
But what about a page with almost no content? It is possible to rank on anchor text alone?
Yes, but it has to be very obscure and non-competitive words.

Google's Matt Cutts: Don't Use Article Directories For Link Building

In a short video yesterday, Google's Matt Cutts told webmasters and SEOs not to use article directory sites for link building strategies.
Well, he kind of said not to use it and hinted to it at the end by saying:

Here is the video: