[ozsubasi]

I read on many forums and have read many articles of how links are being replaced by social signals as the way of "voting" for a site. Yet here is Matt Cutts saying recently that links are far from dead, and in fact are likely to remain alive for some years to come:
http://searchengineland.com/matt-cut...2-video-126842
Any views on this please?

[Venus Brown]

I don't agree with this completely.
Its true that social presence is one factor for improving ranks but links are equally (or more) important to enhance indexing and page rank.

[ozsubasi]

My own view is that social media is far more open to manipulation than linking, and that Google are well aware of this.

[locker]

social media has not replaced the linking process but yeah we can say social media marketing plays now very much strong role in enhancing the traffic and to build backlinks

[k2seo]

This is interesting. How matt cutts explaining about this..

[AjayPrajapati]

yes social media are really helpful for the traffic and always be. But can't replace to links.

[ozsubasi]

Quote:

Originally Posted by petersmith5544

Social media has certainly changed the landscape of how we gather information. The two-way interaction and communication with customers is often a free focus group.

This is copied from the internet.