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5 Reasons Social Media is Important for SEO

por Layla Amerson (04/09/2021)


What exactly does social media have to relate to SEO? MWI receives this information a lot from current and prospective clients. Social media is a rapidly growing marketing channel that most businesses have only begun using in the past few years. However, it's crucial to make use of - especially if you're investing funds into SEO. The creation and management of social media accounts is extremely important to assist in SEO efforts, though the benefits are not immediately apparent. Here are five reasons why social media is essential for SEO.

1) Social Media Signals
It's not a secret that Google, http://www.eap-forums.gr/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&username=LatiaValen Bing, and other search engines use online dialogue in their algorithm for ranking. A social engagement happens when users like, share or share a tweet about a piece of content. Content that has the highest number of social engagements is likely to have more social signals. Social signals are utilized by search engines to determine the quality of content. This is a way for search engines to determine the most popular content and what their algorithms consider good quality. Content can be quickly indexed if it's receiving a lot of social engagement.

2) Link Building
Long gone are the days of soliciting websites to link to your site. Since the introduction of Google's Panda and Penguin algorithm SEOs are now forced to create links in the traditional way to create quality content that is link-worthy. How do you get in touch with sites that would be willing to link to your website if they are not directly approached as an "unnatural" link building method? Social media can help. Social media allows you to share your content with people who are willing to link to it, when it's worthy of linking to. They will also be able to share your content with other people, increasing your influence.

3) The amplifying of content
You can make all the high quality content you want however, it will not get significant traction without the aid of amplification. Sure, email marketing can be an excellent way to increase the reach of your content, but it can only reach people within your database of marketing. Social media can help you reach new audiences with your content. If you publish your content to your followers, they will spread it to their own followers if they find it helpful. They will also recommend your content to their followers, increasing your reach. As a result, you get lots of relevant traffic such as inbound links, social signals , and brand awareness All of these are used by search engines to determine the quality of content.

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4.) Brand Awareness and Signals
Search engines can use brand image and recognition to judge the credibility of your website and how trustworthy it should be for their ranking algorithms. Social media helps to build brand awareness and amplifies the content you publish. Google refers to this as co-citation. Co-citations can be created via social media in order to increase Google's trust as well as aid with brand-name searches.

5.) Social Indexing
Search engines have been indexing social media sites since a while, which means they now appear in search result pages. This allows your company to appear in search results that include branded search queries on more than just your own website. It's more than that. Tweets on their own from Twitter were once indexed and displayed in the search results. This allowed your website to be more prominent in search. However, it was only temporary, and Google removed it after few months. Google will once again show tweets in search results, so it's important to leverage it for getting your content ranked.