What role does social media play in an SEO strategy?

[Nicki Seo]

[brajesh]

Hi

Now a days SMO is the most effective technologies to increase the traffic as well as ranking. So if you want to increase the instant traffic you can use SMO.

[onlinegame vids]

Using social media, like buttons, share buttons and tweeting can not only spread the word about your website but also create an inbound link for your website telling search engines that your website is important.


So once again like other inbound links and backlinks social media likes and tweets are creating more focus and visibility in search engines.

[Odell Sloan]

"Social media is the new ground for online marketing. Every business wants to be heard and talked about, and every consumer wants to get updates. That’s why fan pages in Facebook, brands in Twitter and channels in YouTube have rapidly emerged. These platforms widen the network of the brand, enhance online visibility, find more potential customers, build brand and customer relationships. In the end, it leads to increase in sales along the way." - Rankhigher

[DavidJSneen]

Its huge.

The search engines base their rankings on a totality of work. So, if you have twitter retweets, and facebook likes, and have high marks in a couple other similar sites, expect your blogs to rate high.

Also, if you have a blog you are trying to popularize, get in there in social media and talk to people. People do business with those they know, like and trust. Social media is an opportunity to create those bonds quickly.

[Dexter]

Recently, Google added a Social Plugin Tracking tool for Google Analytics that measures the impact of different social activities on your website. Aside from tracking +1s, it also tracks tweets and Facebook likes and any other type of social activities. This is an indication that Social Media and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) worlds are starting to collide. And this is good news for all the blog and website owners to take the advantage of using social media to increase their site’s traffic.

[Tanmayee Mishra]

Social media helps in increasing traffic as well as keyword rank.

[Robot Pit]

Social media is only use for traffic regarding. you can get a lot of traffic by social media optimization.

[Charles]

Depending on the website (ie. a gossip website) social media can be great for making the website popular and bringing in word of mouth links.

However if the website is selling lawn furniture or something equally boring social media will be a complete waste of time.

[booze]

Social Media influences SEO now. Links shared through Twitter and Facebook have a direct impact on rankings. - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-bing-c...luence-seo