Content is King is a Lie

Content is King is the biggest lie in the business. You must have content but even spammers can access great content. There are a trillion websites all with great content being indexed by a machine. And that machine doesnt care about content because it cant read. It cares about backlinks and you dont have enough. The thinking is if you have great content then folks will link to you. They may or may not. Even if they do this could take months. You can't compete like this. No one can. Some sites are getting thousands of links per day. You can have over 5000 at your disposal without a lot of effort. Pligg site submissions, Bookmarking, Blogs, directory submission. And it must be automated. Unless you want to sit in front of your pc 24/7. Or pay someone to submit these for you.  But cranking away at these one by one is a fast track to futility. BTW I just ranked Number 2 out of 25 million websites for a highly competitive term within 24 hours.