Social Media and SEO – An infographic by the team at WhiteFire, an SEO Company
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How Social Media Affects Search
Helps Content Get Indexed Faster
Tweeting cuts indexation time by 50%
And reduces the time it takes Googlebot to find your content from Hours to Seconds
Increases Rankings for Terms in the Share
Shares can trigger the freshness portions of Google’s algorithm, giving you temporary increases in rankings.
Increases Ranking for Social Connections
(Search Plus Your World)
Increases Domain’s Ability to Rank
High levels of social activity show search engines that you’re authentic, engaged and valuable to readers.
Author Authority and rel=”author”
Author authority is a signal to the search engines that you consistently write useful content. Using rel=”author” allows Google to track your writing across the web.
Social Bookmarking and Followed Links
Social bookmarking shows the engines that you’re authoritative and popular.
In addition to this, social networks frequently provide followed links in user profiles.
Infographic design by WhiteFire
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