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    • Personnel_Concept
      Personnel_Concept last edited by

      You know how sharing on social networking sites can act as social signal for ranking but I was wondering that what type of sharing on fb/google + ?

      does it has to be our site links all the time or any sharing other than our own site links matters too ?

      lets say if we are just discussing something on fb/google+ without our site link does that count too?

      social signal is sent only when we share our own sites link on social sites or through any kind of activity on our social fb/google+ page ?

      If you want to tell anything else connected with social signal please go ahead ..

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      • SEOAndy
        SEOAndy last edited by

        You need to see it as community building. Don't see social signals as "if I put our link on twitter and get people to RT it it will help rankings"

        The idea is to put up quality tweets, interact with your followers and give them information on your company, help them when they have problems and build as sustainable and regularly updated twitter account. Create high quality blogs, put them on facebook / google+ and twitter, If you do this right your followers will talk about you, influencers will retweet / like / +1 and this is how social signals work.

        It's fair to say at the moment Google pays more attention to their own social network, Google+, but it isn't as popular as the others at the moment.

        The summary is just to be active, put good quality content up on your social networks and interact. Your social signals will follow 🙂

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        • Jungles
          Jungles last edited by

          In my experience - ANY activity will count! Most important - if you created account that links to your web - treat it like it is your web 2.0 property and you will see results pretty soon 😉

          Best,

          Jungles

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          • Personnel_Concept
            Personnel_Concept @SEOAndy last edited by

            Hi Simon, Thanks for your comment. I am very well aware of the things you explained and our social media is doing already great regarding what you said. I was just curious about what I asked in my qn.

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