How Does Links Affect SEO?

There is a very interesting article pointing out the difference effective linking is to your search engine optimisations at Swift Media UK.

If keyword is the word you hear most often with SEO, then links or linking is the word you hear second-most often. Links are the foundation of topical communities, and as such they have as much, if not more, weight with search engine crawlers than keywords do.

A web page without links is like a desert island. It