Is social media replacing links?
 

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?

Re: Is social media replacing links?
 

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.

Re: Is social media replacing links?
 

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

Re: Is social media replacing links?
 

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

Re: Is social media replacing links?
 

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

Re: Is social media replacing links?
 

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

Re: Is social media replacing links?
 

This is copied from the internet.