vivalasvegas - 10:59 am on Nov 21, 2009 (gmt 0)

Search engines are a very efficient way of finding information and I believe people will keep using them a lot. Maybe an integration of these engines with social media networks will drive SE traffic even higher.

What I am concerned about is link development. I have found it more and more difficult to acquire quality inbounds. The reason for this is the increasing uselessness of Link pages with many webmasters stopping updating these pages or dropping them altogether. I am of course not referring to link exchanges and the such.

So I agree with your statement

Thus getting links that drive traffic (not "only" rankings) will become more important...and...WOM (on forums, communities, blogs) will become more important ..for traffic development