What does social media have to offer SEO? MWI gets this kind of information frequently from current and prospective clients. While social media has been an increasingly popular channel for marketing in recent times, many businesses have yet to take advantage of the potential of it. This is especially important if you are investing in SEO. Creating and managing social media accounts is extremely important for supporting SEO efforts, although the benefits are not immediately apparent. From the myriad of reasons to consider social media as part of your overall strategy to be online, here are 5 reasons why it’s crucial for SEO.
1) Social Media Signals
It’s no secret that Google, Bing and other major search engines have been using online dialogue as part of their algorithm for ranking for some time. Social engagements occur the time when people share, like, comment or share tweets on a piece of content. The more social interactions a piece of content receives, the more social signals you send to your website. Search engines look at these signals from social media, and then use them as an indicator of quality when ranking content. This is a way for search engines to identify the most popular content and also what they consider to be good quality. A piece of content could be quickly indexed whenever it’s attracting a significant amount of social interaction.
2.) Link Building
It’s long gone from the moment when you could simply solicit links from other websites. Google’s Panda/Penguin algorithms have compelled SEOs to build links in the traditional way: create good quality content that is pertinent. What is the best way to reach websites that will link to your content, when you ask them directly, which would be thought to be “unnatural”? Social media can help. Social media allows you to expose your content to people who are willing to link to it when it’s worthy of linking to. These people will promote your content to others, increasing your influence.
3.) Content amplification
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4.) Brand Awareness and Signals
Search engines may use your brand’s reputation and image to assess the credibility of your website and how reliable it ought to be within their ranking algorithms. Social media is a great way to increase brand awareness and increases the quality of your content. This is what Google calls co-citation. These co-citations can be built by using social media to boost Google’s trust and help with the search engine’s branded searches.
5.) Social Indexing
Since the search engines are able to index social media websites, they are now showing in search results pages. This lets your brand be displayed in search results for your branded search queries on more than only your website. It gets even more effective. Individual Tweets from Twitter were at one time indexed and displayed in search results too – enabling another way to ensure your content’s ranking in the search results. This was just temporary for a few months before Google took the decision to end this feature, which is still in effect. Google will once again show tweets in search results, so it’s important to leverage it for getting your content ranked.