Does Traffic impacts rankings??

[Sharon]

I see... so traffic has no affects on ranking as far as search results... so by definition of "backlinks" from my understanding then as long as there is a link to your website on another website (whether it be a blog, forum, website, etc...) that is considered a backlink and the more of it, the greater chances of your link being ranked higher than others when it comes to search results? So... is that way so many bots/human spammers spam places so much?