Get Help With Your SEO by Getting Social
In today’s online market place it is important for all business and entrepreneurs to realize that the playing field has changed quite drastically over the last few years. There are many new platforms and websites that businesses can eagerly leverage to drive new exposure, traffic and eye balls than there ever has been before. Social Media Marketing technology has made it much easier to become visible online and it is up to you as a business owner to take advantage of this technology.
Launching a blog and having an active Twitter and Facebook account go hand in hand. If you don’t understand why that is not important yet just realize that having both is the first step to building new qualified website visitors. At the very least make it a point to have both created as soon as possible and worry how to incorporate into your marketing strategy after, your audience is waiting. After you launch your blog there are many sure fire ways to build new networks of happy customers and potential clients. Twitter and Facebook will be a nice meeting place for them to join and meet but it will be the blog that gets them there. When you launch a blog and start writing new posts you will most likely have to get those blog posts out there a bit at first to start building up new loyal readers. Once you have your Facebook and Twitter accounts all built with nice little links and great profile images you can sync the Twitter account along with your Facebook fan page. What this will ultimately do is eliminate one step for yourself. As you drop your blog post link into your Facebook fan page it will automatically create a link in your Twitter account for you. This is one great and convenient way to not only drive targeted visitors to your website from a variety of Twitter users but also build up your Facebook fan page as well.
This takes time so it is important to start doing it now and be consistent with it. Online marketing takes time to grow like anything else. Over time you will slowly start to build up followers on your Twitter account and fans on your Facebook page. As the search engines evolve even more they will require an element of social interaction through all the various social platforms in order to really help your SEO efforts.
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Good article, but I would clarify that social media sites, like Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia, don’t actually help your SEO rankings directly as Google does not take those into consideration. However, they do help drive traffic to your site and allow you to establish relationships with your audience.
Hi Jess,
Thanks for stopping by and reading.
This is true, but SEO is not all about rankings, it is about building your business, brand and reputation with your audiences and over time you can earn great rankings, which will lead to an increase of visitors and sales…its all part of the package
I agree with you Nick SEO is not all about rankings.The main purpose of SEO is to target the audience to avail product/services that they offer but these kind of online marketing SEO play the important role to all and any kind of business.
Thanks for reading and your comment Andre!
Hey Nick,
What tool do you use to link the facebook page and the twitter account?
Hi Julien,
Sure, I am happy to answer that question for you, here is the plugin:
http://www.facebook.com/twitter/
Thanks for reading!
Nick
I wanted to correct the comment about Facebook, Twitter not affecting your SEO. Starting Jan 2010, (if you have been keeping up to date)Google has stated that Social media will be playing a more important roll in their new formats and will continue to do so. Especially with the new ‘caffeine’ program they are rolling out where you can Google active feeds. It may not have the same weight, but as things evolve in the SERP’s and changes in algorithms progress; I think anyone who is staying ahead of the curve will stand to reap large benefits.
Hi Paul,
Thanks for reading and your comment. I agree with you, take a look at a post that I wrote earlier this month about the new Google caffeine update:
http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2010/01/02/ready-caffeine/
nice post…yeah Paul your right, social networking site’s can help grow your business this time in terms of SEO, Google is now uses those social site to put in SERP’s, like tweets in twitter, and some pages is facebook, but they say if the page in is private it will not be in the SERP’s.. so as long as Social Networking site’s is concerned SEO expert need them to grow or to increase traffic.: )
Hi Busyman,
Thanks for reading and good points!