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Is content is necessary in website for increasing ranking??? I have a portal site searchnmeet please open it and check it.

Of course, After the Google panda and Google penguin update, Content is King and Backlinks are queen in SEO. So you have to add unique quality content and Create quality backlinks structure for your website. Then try to add your content in your website and if its not possible then create one blog section in your website and those content in that blog section and promote it in Social media website. This will help you to cache your website in google as well as your website traffic also increase.

Yes content is very important in increasing ranking of your website. Unique content helps in fetching more visitors on your website so you must submit unique and fresh content on your website time to time.

Yes content is very important but it depends on website. For example: If you have an image sharing website like picasa then why you will publish content there. So you should work on rest things like backlinks, design etc.

Content is very very important part of website. So, website's content should be easily understant by users. In other words, content should be user-friendly. All details about product should be describe clearly.

Nice suggestion !

For ranking follows below steps-
Broken links
Hidden links
Keyword stuffing
Footer links
Link is stuffing.

yes if you have nice content so easily you can get top ranking

yes it is very important

Thank you all for sharing your views but i like seo_butterfuly very much.

Content is notonly important for SEO, it is KING in SEO. You should focus on original or fresh content for doing promotion of your website.