bluesky wrote:Hi There,
Although many different point of views can be have regarding just which ones are still the determining factors, but do you still believe that one can get to the top of the search engines using only one of them and completely forgetting about the other one?
For example, just concentrating on link developing and forgetting about the web pages onpage points?

A combination of both on-page optimization and off-page optimization will help you rank well in SERPs.
Here are a few on-page and off-page optimization techniques
On-page Optimization:
• Keyword Research & Competition Analysis
• Meta Tag Placement (Title, Keywords, Description and others)
• Image Optimization (Alt Tags)
• Web Page Optimization (Pages titled with relevant keywords)
• Robots.txt
• XML Sitemap
• Search Engine Verification and Sitemap Submission
Off-page Optimization:
• Directory Submission
• Articles Submission
• Press Release Submission
• Squidoo Lens Creation
• Hub Pages Creation
• Social Bookmarking (Digg, Delicious, Stumble, Reddit etc.)
• Blog Posting
• Forums participation
• Classified Ads
• Social Networking (Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, LinkedIn etc.)