Jane_Doe - 12:07 am on Apr 18, 2006 (gmt 0)

I get the sense that my rankings don't correlate to number of links and/or quality of links as much as they used to, but certainly links still seem to be a major ranking factor. However, in 5 years down the line I doubt that links will count for as much as they do now. I suspect all of the search engines will move to ranking factors that are less easily manipulated.