What the heck does social media have to in relation to SEO? At MWI we hear lots of questions from our the current and potential clients. Although social media has been an increasing marketing channel over the last few years, many firms haven’t yet begun to benefit from it. This is particularly important when you’re investing in SEO. While the advantages of social media may not be immediately obvious, they are vital for SEO support. Here are five benefits of social media is vital to SEO.

1.) Social Media Signals

It’s no secret that Google, Bing, and other search engines rely on online conversations as part of their algorithm for ranking. When people share content via Twitter, Facebook, comment or share the content it is referred to as a social engagement. The more social engagements your content has, the more social signals it will bring to your site. Search engines measure the social signals they receive, and consider it an element of quality when evaluating content. It’s a way to determine what content is popular with users over what their automated algorithm determines to be of good quality. If a piece of content has a high amount of social engagement, it can be instantly classified.

2) Link Building

It is long past the period when you could just go out and ask for links from other websites. Google’s Panda/Penguin algorithms have compelled SEOs to linkbuild the traditional way: create top-quality content that’s relevant. What is the best way to reach websites that are willing to link to your content, زيادة عدد ساعات يوتيوب if the request is considered “unnatural”? Social media can help. Social media lets you expose your content to interested audiences who might be willing to share it with others, if it is worth linking to. These users will then spread your content among others, increasing your influence.

3) Amplification of content

It doesn’t matter how good your content is, it’s unlikely to achieve much success until you amplify it. Marketing via email can be an excellent method of amplifying content but it will only be able to reach the people on your list of marketing contacts. Social media allows you to connect with new audiences through your content. If you send your content out to your followers, they’ll also share it with their personal followings if they find it helpful. The people who share it will promote your content to their followers, increasing the reach of your content. You’ll also get relevant traffic and inbound links social signals, as well as brand awareness and are used by search engines to determine content quality evaluation.

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4.) Brand Recognition and Signals

Brand recognition and brand identity can tell search engines a lot about the quality of your site and the extent to which it can be believed to be in its ranking algorithms. In addition to boosting your content Social media can also to increase awareness of your brand. Google calls this co-citation. The creation of these co-citations via social media can help increase Google’s trust in your company website as well as helping with branded search queries.

5.) Social Indexing

Search engines have been indexing social media profiles for a number of years now so they can now appear in the search results pages. This lets your company’s brand show up in search results for brand-related queries, which aren’t exclusive to your site. It’s even more effective. Individual tweets from Twitter were once indexable and were displayed in the search results. This allowed your content to be ranked higher in searches. This was just temporary for a few months until 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.