Will Google Results Be Better With Social Signals?

Opinions about what's best right now for SEO are like noses — everybody's got one. So here's another one (opinion that is).

Imagine the impossible: say you had links to your home page from the home pages of, say, Adobe, NBC, and Harvard University. I have a hunch your traffic to that page, plus your rankings for keywords on it, would go through the roof. My point? — LINKS are still very important. Not garbage links from worthless free directories and the like, but high-quality links from reputable websites.

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