What is best for SEO? Content or links?

Question

My new website is on page 1 for its keyword after about 4 weeks. It made page 2 after 2 weeks. I added new content and posted links.

Could I have achieved page 1 without links? Is content alone enough?

Posting links gets really boring...

Comments

This isn't a chicken or egg situation though. You need compelling content first and then you should have no trouble in having lots of people help you out with links.

Answer 1

An age old question.  I will answer it this way:

When you get traffic, your site needs to be so good that people want to come back and tell their friends. If you fail in this area, it really doesn't matter how many links you get, and this IS the area most most people fail in the most. Get this part right, and you will be successful on the net.

Answer 2

Content and Links are two sides of the same coin, you need to have a unique content and at the same time you need to spread a word about your site through link posting. Using both will only help you to increase your sites popularity and eventually the PR.