Since the web is all about linking one site to another (thats how people often go from one site to another) which provides the web effect, I believe, contrary to what some have recently been saying, Google will always put a lot of emhasis on backlinks.
Yeah. Maybe you are right. But consider an alternate reality, where a search engine has access to everyone's analytics. They are bent on (what some may consider) a megalomaniac aim of organizing all information on the planet. They can see which queries generate "interested" visitors, with the metrics for "interest" being page views, time spent etc. Now, what if this same company marries that data with it's search results data to further tweak the rankings to decide which site deserves ranking on a particular keyword. Furthermore, this same company starts to fight "link inflation" by derating the reciprocal links, obviously bought links, "sponsored" links and such. If this company with it's vast resources starts to detect link farms, networks etc. it may so turn out that the links would be less important. I wonder if such a searchengine exists. Do you?
I dont agree. In my opinion, counting lniks is just a hack to find an approximation to a problem solution (finding most valuable sites for a query). When more advanced text analysis methods developed, the value of bakcklinks will be decreased. But i guess search engines will also develop much more complex linking behavior analyzers by time. (I think this google update suprising facts is partly the result of an advanced linking behavior analyzer.) When google will detect link exchanges or artificial linkbacks more succesffully, the popularity of linking will decrease since it will be much more difficult to find high quality and natural links. So in summary, the value of quality content will increase but the value of linking will decrease. People will try to get backlinks naturally by increasing the quality of their sites. So my suggestion: dont forget to develop unique and valuable content in your niches before it is too late.
This is a tough question. Some people have worked hard at creating backlinks, including myself. Doing away with this would have wasted tons of time for alot of people, but I cant say that I wouldnt be infavor of a change. Honestly I cant see it changing soon though.
maybe it's a selective process chosen by Google to eliminate lazy people or people who wants everything to be fast...
Links will never go out of style just get more advanced. I agree with Casper, that search engines will become more and more advanced and will be able to analyze text, but there will always be two sites with nearly the same content score, and then link will have to come into it. I DO think that link processing by the SEs will become more advanced. Maybe they will be able to determine whether a link is complimenting or criticizing. Or maybe they'll be able to read CSS better to find out where a link actually resides on a page (discounting links in footers or at the bottom of side navigations, as these links get the fewest click-throughs) But i think it is a good way of doing things, and it would be silly to think that they will completely throw it away.
I do believe that links will stay the central part of the successful se-rankings. BUT more things will count as links. When and if google finds out what sites people bookmark, they will be sure to count that as links. Quality score will figure largely in that, just as it does in normal links now. The specialized google-search engines people can make now (forget the name) will also count as links, probably only if the specialized se in question actually has users.
Search Engines counts your back links. But careful about dofollow sites when trying to create back links.
Very simple, how search engine will know about your values, credibility and importance if no one is linking you, no one is talking about you or no one is giving their vote for you???? backlinks plays the major role for search engine algorithms. SO balklinks is ever green seo strategy and will always remain in demand.
This method was one of the first methods using which Google Started Ranking the websites on its early stage, still backlinking holds the most % of relevancy in ranking a website