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Tapping Social Media To Increase Rankings

  • Best Rank, Thursday, February 12, 2009 5:45 PM
If you are looking for way to increase search engine rankings through Digg, Reddit, Stumbleupon and Delicious, this case study using Google Analytics might provide insight. Guillermo Bravo tells us that if you are successful in hitting the first page on Reddit, for example, the story gets pulled to sites like Wired.com and Popurls.com.

Using a sample article promoted by Best Rank, Bravo shows how social media marketing can help organic SEO efforts. He points out that Google appears to trust social media networks as a source for quality back links, even if most social sites indicate links as nofollow. So, he writes, residual back links created by other interested webmasters also help rankings.

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