Comments on: 2 Ways of Using Social Media to Improve Your SEO Campaign

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:37:49 +0000

Here’s a creative way to deal with the no-follow Facebook tag http://www.localseoguide.com/facebook-pages-local-search-engine-optimization/

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:26:15 +0000

It’s important not to focus on ranking – especially when Behavioral SEO results will make ranking not as powerful as it is now. Taking the big picture of actual people using Social Media and being captivated on your offer or candidness will lead them to your site and then capture them as a unique visit that will hopefully convert. The goal of SEO is not high rankings, it’s getting real people to buy something you provide -product, service or opinion.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:42:48 +0000

But I’m wondering if there are any other practices which would increase your ranking. Obviously traffic to a website won’t effect your ranking so what else can? But of course we want to do this legitimately since Social Media is all about being transparent. This brings me to the ultimate question: Can Social Media be used for your website’s SEO?

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:09:11 +0000

Ah, the wonderful no-follow tag. Yes, dealing with no-follow tags is another issue in and of itself which I’ll tackle one day. In short, it doesn’t mean to blow off a site as useless (unless you are a Black Hat/Spammer because then you’d actually have to do some real work). Those that do include no-follow tags will have to be deemed worthy of your efforts based on their audience. It comes back to actual measuring and marketing and where you take the power of saying “We’re not going to use this social media site, because the traffic of the audience we’re reaching is too small.” Corrective measures against spammers actually increase the White Hat SEO “bag of tricks” that Black Hatters won’t touch because of what THEY consider difficult and risky … and that’s why no-follow tags make me giggle inside.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:45:31 +0000

Problem is that many social media sites LIKE facebook and youtube are now including “nofollow” tags which do NOT affect SEO. They started to do this to stop spammers from spamming website urls.