Facebooking and Liking - Whis is best SEO practice for Rankings

[JesusD]

Hi everyone! , i am a rookie with SEO. I have a very specific question for which i would love to hear your opinions on this.

I have a facebook fan page about my company. We try to post quality stuff in regard to the industry we are in. However, we are social people, and i have seen improvements whenever we post more "social" topics such as TGIF, Photos, DIY themes.

My question is (Actually two questions) :

1. Is there a direct correlation or metric between rankings and "likes", the size of your facebook community ?

2. If so, which has more power or effect on rankings. Facebook Likes generated from your website , or General Likes of posts within your existing community.

Hope to hear from ya! Every advice is good advice.

Regards

Jesus D

Aceromart

[ThompsonPaul]

Number of Likes/Fans has no direct effect on rankings, Jesus. It's just far too easy to game and fake these numbers for the SEs to rely on them as ranking metrics.

Click-through rates from the SERPS can however be affected if a searcher sees your result and the SE also displays an affiliation to someone the searcher trusts beside that result.

But no, number of fans doesn't create rankings.

Paul

[factoryestores]

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[JesusD]

Yes, thank you for the response.

I heard it and also read it somewhere in the ART OF SEO Book from Rand, but didnt know how much it affected on rankings. It makes sense that sharing has more of an effect than liking, but i wasnt sure!

Thanks for the response!