Your question is like which is necessary for living breathing or eating? My friend as you must understand now that onpage and offpage are complimentary to each other. After development of your website you need to fix all onpage issues and then starts doing offpage activities. Both are vital for better SERPs ranking.
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The combination of onpage or offpage provides better ranking results or massive traffic to a website.