What's more important for building a blog website? having great marketing skills for promoting your site or writing great contents?

the quality

Both are necessary  great marketing skills and writing great contents

here are8 Incredibly Simple Ways to Get More People to Read Your Content

1. Embrace the line break :Feature one idea per paragraph, and keep them short — three or four sentences at most.

2. Break up your content with compelling subheads :A strong headline (and therefore a strong premise) is vital to getting readers to come check you out in the first place. And solid subheads keep the reader engaged, acting as “mini headlines” to keep them moving through the rest of your content.

3. Use bulleted lists

4. Use deep captions.

5. Add highly relevant links

6. Use strategic formatting

7. Harness the power of numbers

8. Check your dual readership path

Divide your efforts on both of them especially meta tags and key words

I think the foundation is the most important

اI think that's important first is to write useful topics that attract visitors

The art of writing good content

And then attract visitors and people and so here comes the role

of marketing skill after bigger Entries and getting subscribers

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Quality contents are pre requisites 

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