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What the heck does social media have to relate to SEO? At MWI we hear many of these inquiries from potential and current clients. Although social media has been a growing channel for marketing in recent years, most companies have not yet started to take advantage of it. This is especially important to consider if you're planning to invest in SEO. Creating and managing social media accounts is important to assist in SEO initiatives, but the benefits are not immediately evident. From the myriad of reasons why you should consider social media as a part of your online strategy Here are five reasons it's important for SEO.

1.) Social Media Signals
It's no secret that Google, شراء مشتركين يوتيوب Bing and other major search engines have been using online dialogue as part of their ranking algorithms for quite some years now. Social engagement occurs the time when people share, like, comment or share tweets about content. The more the number of social interactions that a piece content has, the more social signals you can build for your website. Search engines measure the social signals they receive, and then use them as an element of quality when evaluating content. It's a method of determining what content is popular with users and what their algorithm determines to be top-quality. If the content you're looking at receives lots of engagement on social media it will be immediately identified.

2.) Link Building
It's been a long time that you could solicit hyperlinks from other sites. Google's Panda/Penguin algorithms have compelled SEOs to linkbuild using the old method: make good quality content that is pertinent. What is the best way to reach websites that are willing to link to your site, if they are considered "unnatural"? Social media is your answer. Social media lets you publish your content to appropriate audiences that are willing to share it with others, should it be worth linking to. People who promote your content to others and boost your authority.

3.) Amplification of content
You can write all the top-quality content you like but it's not going to gain significant traction without the aid of amplification. Email marketing is an excellent way to increase the reach of your the content, but it'll only reach those in your marketing database. Social media lets you expand your reach with your content. If you publish your content to your followers, they'll also share it with their personal followings if they find it helpful. This will cause them to spread the word to their networks and increase your reach. As a result, you get an abundance of relevant traffic and inbound links, as well as brand recognition and social signals These are all used by search engines to assess the quality of the content.

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4.) Brand Communication and Awareness
Search engines may use your brand's image and recognition to judge the quality of your site and how trustworthy it needs to be for their ranking algorithms. Social media aids in building brand awareness and increases the quality of the quality of your content. This is what Google calls co-citation. These co-citations can be built via social media in order to increase Google's credibility and aid in branded searches.

5) Social Indexing
Search engines have been indexing the social media pages since a while so they can now appear on search result pages. This lets your company's brand show up in search results for search queries that are branded and not limited to your company website. It's even more effective. Individual tweets from Twitter were previously indexed and appeared in search results as well - enabling another way to ensure your content's ranking in the search results. It was only for a short time, however it ended 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.