Link from an orphan page is useful or not?

No
Because the page is not linked to any website page and you cannot visit it through any referral link and these pages are mainly
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orphan pages link is never useful as they are not connected to site so the chance of getting crawled is less and if you are finding the page cached or page with rank than it might get cached or ranked when it was connected to website. orphan pages are mainly use for link building purpose and i think it comes under Black Hat technique but i am not sure about it.
Ok. That is sooo nice of you all. But now tell me if there is a page "www.xyz.com/abc"; which is not connected with any page of the domain "www.xyz.com";. Now if that "www.xyz.com/abc"; page gets a link from a very reputated site (may be more than 1link). Then will it help in any way www.xyz.com??
still i will not take link from that page, coz if that page is associated with any other page that means we are building link for that page only but still it is an orphan page/ dead page. that page may get ranked after building backlinks for that but still how to reach at that dead/orphan page??
no it's not at all good to tk link frm orphan page, if we tk link frm orphan page then it shows an artificial link building which not at all good in Google eyes
We have some orphan pages ranking well as these orphan are linked from some of the forum pages of the website + external links. If the domain is good, do get the link and also add few links to the internal orphan page so that Google can cache it. In this way the link will become really useful. As mentioned always ask 1) Who is linking to me (The value of domain) 2) In what context are the linking to me (Page & Link position) ... if the Who part is strong go for it. This also helps in trust ranking.

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Which is more important for a site content or links?

It is like this question.
which is better AIR??? WATER??? expand »


I believe both are imp. Because links gives a favor vote to our site where content is important because it gives G reason to index our website and we will have natural links. For best practice both content and links are essential.

If the option is to chose one I will go for links as there is fundamental concepts that persist, all the contents are reachable through links.
hmmm but as per my thoughts ..contents are more imp..as without it a site is like a"naked site"..and on the basis of contents of the sites links are being puted..
Some SEO experts say that content is king and Google is behind the fresh content and this is the only thing that makes your site look fresh and listed higher on the search engine.
expand »But recently I have read a post which is saying that after doing the competition between Backlinks & site content the site is won in ranking which is carrying more backlinks.
We have the content still we need back links. And when there is a page obvious there will be content. it is about content optimization and quality of the content. As u said "whole backlinking procedure is mainly based upon the site content". so what is the need of backlinks??? I understand, good content are source of natural flow of links. Again links for what?? the answer is for ranking.
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As far as the linking strategy, there is a parameter OBL. We dont read the content of the page then proceed. Rather we check the theme and OBL.

I STILL SAY THE CONTENT AND LINKS ARE COMPLEMENTARY. FOR BEST PRACTICE BOTH ARE ESSENTIAL.
The conclusion from my end: The purpose of a page is 1) (Bring visitors) Rank well 2) (Convert visitors) Sell/Satisfy well ..... Now a page that may satisfy well but doesn't bring visitor is like a huge shop in a remote village (it is not profitable) ... We will have to bring people .. if we are bringing people using ads only we can forget about search engines and content part altogether, we can also forget about links.... now if we need traffic from search engines then we need to expand »understand the formula which is something like (Value of the content x value of links) ... now the value of the content will be limited to a certain value so for high competitive market only content will not suffice and content will hardly play any role in very competitive keywords ... links will rule but for low competitive keywords content enough will suffice.... why do people say the content is the king (the reason is for the informative articles as an informative article will bring in natural links and will also satisfy people) ... 1) Write content to rank so that you score well with respect to content value 2) Get links so that you can score well with respect to link value ... it is never a competition between which is bigger content or link ... both are playing its role .. these days content is playing a major role in search engine rankings ... example http://www.google.com/… here google used to rank but now only Google CSE ranks as the page has the keyword in it. .... :) Enjoy the discussion.

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Dynamic page optimization

Unlike a normal HTML website, where the content of static pages doesn't change unless you code the changes into your HTML file: open the file, edit the content, save the file, and upload back the server. A dynamic web page is a template that displays specific information in response to queries. The database is connected to the web site and the response is generated through the connected database. These sites are easy to update for webmaster since they’re directly connected to a database where one change reflects all pages. The problem with dynamic sites started when content rich sites failed to rank higher in search engines. The problem lies in its advantage itself. As studied earlier, dynamic pages execute on query.
Users send queries through search engines or they are already coded into a link on the page.But a search engine spider doesn't know how to use your search function - or what questions to ask. Dynamic scripts often need certain information before they can return the page content: cookie data, session id, or a query string being some of the common requirements. Spiders usually stop indexing a dynamic site because they can't answer the question.
Search engines only believe in content and not flashy elements in your web site. Search engine crawlers are programmed in such a way that they can read only the text. Crawlers strictly ignore elements such as pictures, frames, video etc, and read it as an empty space, then move on. Some search engines may not even be able to locate the dynamic page very easily.But even if we make web sites only search engine friendly and not user friendly then most likely we end up losing out visitor. This presents a big problem for marketers who have done very well with their rankings in search engines using static pages but who wish to switch to a dynamic site. This is the reason SEO’s came up with advanced SEO techniques to optimize dynamic pages.

Here are few methods you can use to optimize dynamic pages:

1.Use of software
2.Use of CGI/Perl scripts
3.Re-configuring your web servers
4.Creation of a Static Page linked to an array of dynamic Pages

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