How Social Media can help Improve Search Engine Rankings

Sorry this site requires JavaScript to be enabled in your browser. See the following guide on How to enable JavaScript in Internet Explorer, Netscape, Firefox and Safari. Alternatively you may be blocking JavaScript with an advert-related or developer plugin. Please check your browser plugins.

89
Sphinn It!

Went Hot: Feb 10, 2009 - 02:14 am
Posted By: guillebravo6 404 Days ago
Source: http://www.bestrank.com
Category: SEM

Great article on the effect of using social media sites like Digg, Reddit, Stumbleupon, and Delicious to increase your search engine rankings. Case study with Google analytics metrics provided.

9 Comments

Comments

from Stankoson 404 Days ago #

Votes: 1

Link building is a very improtant part of SEO and Social Media compliments it.

from mrbleeuz 404 Days ago #

Votes: 2

Good collection of data, you are absolutely right link building and social book marking are back bone to develop a good Search Engine Ranking. No doubt if some one does social book marking in best way it will prove too much beneficial for site Ranking and traffic.

from guillebravo6 403 Days ago #

Votes: 21

@borsodas I try to be as clear as possible with my articles, and back them up with legitimate data. I’m glad you enjoyed the post.

from AndyW 403 Days ago #

Votes: 0

A good read that’s also backed up by evidence. I wish more SEO articles were like this instead of just opinion and speculation.

from HeadlandDigital 402 Days ago #

Votes: 0

Social media is an important tool to drive traffic, and it can have indirect repercussions on SEO especially with regards to natural linkbuilding.

from ColleenLane 402 Days ago #

Votes: 0

Your article is great, so is your site and what your site has to offer. Thanks for the research. :)

from igrigorik 401 Days ago #

Votes: 0

Interesting article, however, I think it overlooks one important aspect: time from initial post. The half-life of a blog post has a very fast decay, so while it’s true that social media can delivery a big bump, the probability of it happening goes down pretty fast the more stale the post is.

from guillebravo6 401 Days ago #

Votes: 0

@igrigorik Articles instantly gets rankings once they are submitted to social media networks and promoted properly. They typically receive the highest daily "organic" visitors in the following days after the promotion. CONTENT IS KING as always, so writing a quality article is key in receiving long tail traffic in the long term.

from WebDirectory 398 Days ago #

Votes: 0

Figures, someone had to drop a drug link. How wonderful.Good story though. Getting to the front page of any popular social media site is certainly key. :)