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What does social media have to offer SEO? MWI gets this kind of information frequently from prospective and current clients. Social media is a fast growing channel for marketing that most businesses have only recently begun taking advantage of in the past few years, but it's essential to utilize it when you're investing funds into SEO. Creating and managing social media accounts are extremely crucial to support SEO efforts, although their benefits aren't immediately apparent. Below are five reasons why social media is important for SEO.

1) Social Media Signals
It's not a secret that Google, Bing, and other search engines use online dialogue in their ranking algorithms. When people tweet, like, comment or share an article that is known as a social engagement. Content that has more social engagements will be able to show more social signals. Search engines analyze these signals from social media, and use it as an element of quality when evaluating content. This allows search engines to determine the most popular content and what algorithm they believe to be high-quality. If a piece of content is receiving lots of social interaction it will be immediately indexable.

2.) Link Building
It's been a long time when you could make a request for links from other websites. With the advent of Google's Panda and Penguin algorithm SEOs are now forced to do link building the old fashioned way to create quality content that is link-worthy. How do you reach out to websites that are willing to link to your content, if you ask them directly, which would be thought to be "unnatural"? Social media is the solution. Social media allows you to expose your content to interested audiences who might be willing to link to your content, in the event that it's worth linking to. They will also promote your content to their network, further increasing the influence of your content.

3.) Content Amplification
You can write all the high quality content you want but it's not going to gain an enormous amount of attention without amplification. Marketing via email is an effective method to increase the reach of your content , but it can only be able to reach the people on your marketing list. Social media lets you expand زيادة عدد ساعات يوتيوب your reach with your content. If you publish your content to your followers, they will spread it to their own followers when they find it useful. The people who share it will recommend your content to their followers, which will increase your reach. You'll also get relevant traffic, inbound linking, social signals, and brand awareness, all of which are used by search engines to determine content assessment of quality.

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4.) Brand Communication and Awareness
Brand image and recognition can tell search engines many things about the quality of your site's content and the degree to which it should be trusted in its ranking algorithms. Social media aids in building brand awareness and amplifies your content. This is what Google refers to as co-citation. These co-citations are built via social media in order to increase Google's trust and assist with search results that are branded.

5) Social Indexing
Search engines have been indexing social media profiles for some time now so they can now show up in the search results pages. This allows your business to show up in search results for search queries that are branded and not restricted to your website. But it gets even better than that. Individual tweets from Twitter were at one time indexed and displayed in search results too which gave another means for your content to rank in the search results. It was temporary, however, and Google removed it after few months. Google will once again show tweets in search results, زيادة عدد ساعات يوتيوب so it's important to leverage it for getting your content ranked.