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What the heck does social media have to have to do with SEO? At MWI, we get these questions frequently from our potential and current clients. Although social media has been an increasing marketing channel over the last few years, many companies haven't yet begun to benefit from the potential of it. This is especially true if you are investing in SEO. While the advantages of social media are not immediately apparent, they're crucial to SEO support. Below are five reasons why social media is vital to SEO.

1.) Social Media Signals
It's not difficult to see that Google, Bing, and other search engines rely on online conversations as part of their ranking algorithms. When people tweet, like or comment on the content they like it is referred to as a social engagement. Content that has the highest number of social engagements will be able to show more social signals. Search engines measure these signals from social media, and then use them as an element of quality when evaluating the content. It's a way of evaluating what content is popular with users over what their algorithm decides is of high quality. If something receives lots of engagement on social media It can be quickly identified.

2.) Link Building
Long gone are the days of going out and soliciting websites to link to yours. Google's Panda/Penguin algorithms are forcing SEOs to linkbuild by using the traditional method of creating quality content that is relevant. How do you reach websites that will link to your content, if asking them directly would be thought to be "unnatural"? Social media is your answer. Social media lets you share your content with people who are willing to link to your content, if it is worth linking to. They will also be able to share your content with their friends and increase the reach of your content.

3.) Content Amplification
The quality of the content you publish, it will not get much traction in the absence of amplifying it. Email marketing can be great method to boost content but it will only get to those on your list of marketing contacts. Social media can help you connect with new audiences through your content. If you share your content, your following will share it with their following if they find it useful. The people who share it will promote your content to their followers, increasing your reach. In return, you will gain an abundance of relevant traffic, شراء مشتركين يوتيوب - just click the next document - inbound links, branding awareness and social signals These are all utilized by search engines to judge the quality of the content.

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4.) Brand Awareness & Signals
Search engines will use your brand's name and reputation to determine the credibility of your website and how trustworthy it needs to be when they rank it in their algorithms. Social media helps to build brand recognition and boosts the visibility of the content you publish. Google calls this co-citation. Building these co-citations through social media will help improve Google's trust in your company website as well as helping with branded search queries.

5.) Social Indexing
Search engines have been indexing the social media pages since a while so they can now show up in the search results pages. This allows your brand to be listed in search results on specific queries that aren't restricted to your website. But there's more than that. Individual Tweets from Twitter were initially indexed and included in search results, too giving another opportunity for your content to rank in the search results. It was temporary, however it was a short-term solution, and Google stopped it after a few months. Google will once again show tweets in search results, so it's important to leverage it for getting your content ranked.