The Growing Importance of Social Media for SEO
Google and Bing were recently asked if the size of a website’s social networking audience can affect where it shows up in various search results. Both search giants made it clear, your presence on these sites matters! For example, if a website or any of its pages are referenced multiple times in Twitter by authoritative users (i.e. those having large followings), the website’s search ranking improves significantly. The same is true for shared links in Facebook. Having properly optimized profile pages on social media sites can have a dramatic effect on SEO as they are highly indexed by search engines.…