Google's Cutts: Links Still More Powerful Than Social Signals

Jul 6, 2012 - 8:23 am 26 by

Google's Cutts at SMXMatt Cutts, Google's head of search spam, was interviewed at SMX Advanced by Danny Sullivan. The latest video snippet was of links versus social signals.

My take away was that Matt Cutts says links are still, for the foreseeable future, going to be a more powerful signal for search rankings than social signals. Cutts does say that in ten years that may change but right now, links are indeed more important.

Here is the video:

Links versus social signals is one of those debates in the SEO world that is heating up.

Social does factor in big time when you are on Google+ and searching logged in. But in terms of a core ranking signal for users who are not logged in? Well, Matt Cutts would know best.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

 

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