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Does Social media profiles and pages have a big impact on SEO if links are pointing to my site from my social profiles?
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Originally Posted by AndrewAdamSmith View Post

    Does Social media profiles and pages have a big impact on SEO if links are pointing to my site from my social profiles?
    In short, no.

    Social media is good for direct traffic and market outreach. It is really not going to directly boost your rankings despite what a lot of whiter than white hat SEOs will tell you.

    They are no different than any other links, except that they are mostly nofollow.
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  • Profile picture of the author sumeno
    Not a huge but yes it will help little bit for SEO as Google give some value if your site presents on social media website and you also get some traffic too.
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  • Profile picture of the author PBMax
    Actually, it could be. Depends on how much traffic your social media drives as well as how many people share it to people who share it to people who share it to people who...

    The more popular you are to people (not sites) the less and less backlinks are necessary.
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    • Profile picture of the author Insano
      There used to be a way to generate a Follow Backlink from google+ with customizable Anchor (not sure it still works), this one was kind of O.K.

      LinkedIn offers a valuable backlink for people who create a genuinely good article, which is also generating some impact in the LI comunity.

      Other than that,... Links on Twitter or Facebook, didnt show any active benefit to my SEO efforts, the only benefit I got was audience awarness, passive SEO improvements by people quoting and sharing my website on their blogs or in forums, and similar.

      As important as always is the quality of the shared content. Content of Interest / Value for your readers will for sure be shared and quoted, thus generating positive effects on your SERP in the long run
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      • Profile picture of the author PBMax
        Originally Posted by Insano View Post

        There used to be a way to generate a Follow Backlink from google+ with customizable Anchor (not sure it still works), this one was kind of O.K.
        Do tell.

        Plus, if for nothing else, updating your GMB page and gaining followers alters their SERPs permanently as long as the results are personalized (which is the default search setting that people rarely change.) Google thinks that since you like XYZ Plumbers on Google Plus, that when you look for plumbers in your city, they would be something you'd like to see in the results.
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  • Profile picture of the author User-Name
    If you use them to drive high quality traffic towards sections of your website that are relevant you will reduce your bounce rate producing the desired result,,,,,,,,,,,more google love.
    The extra traffic hanging around shows your website is both quality and relevant.
    Andrew
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  • Profile picture of the author reddy183
    Hi,

    It may help to you in direct traffic, i don't think in SEO wise.

    Regards,
    Reddy Sekhar,
    SEO Analyst.
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  • Profile picture of the author alexiastukes
    Not a huge but yes three ways to use google + increase search ranking
    1Optimizing Your Google+ Page for Search Ranking
    2Posting unique Content
    3Connecting the Dots
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  • Profile picture of the author mikfoxx
    Yeah! I guess it would help. It would also help to make your target market trust in your page because of it's detailed profile. Anyone who has a not so good profile would leave a flat impression to your target market.
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  • Profile picture of the author justicejr
    Social media have not effective to SEO, but if you create interesting content, You get massive direct traffic because people read your content will share to their friend.
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  • Profile picture of the author turboshandy
    From what I know, social media is no follow, so there will be no impact on your SEO. Traffic is the only benefit
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  • Profile picture of the author sonjay
    Traffic impacts SEO.. so any backlink that generates traffic impacts SEO, nofollow or otherwise..
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  • Profile picture of the author sahariaremon
    Social media Profiles and pages have not big impact in SEO .Social media profiles pages help us to communication people and also help us to know your post ,share etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author dadamson
    You need to think of Social media as a continuously growing enterprise where you engage and interact with your followers.

    Social profiles by themselves won't help, but a strong and active following will.

    Use it well.
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  • Profile picture of the author mikesmithnew
    Social media is not directly linked to SEO. But social signals are an important factor of trust. It will help to let the search engines know, that your website is popular.
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  • Profile picture of the author GreenInkWriter
    As per my opinion, yes, it is a true social media is a good platform to redirect traffic to any website that means, it is also good for SEO. It doesn't mean you totally have to be dependent on social media pages or profile for SEO. It helps you to get quality and niche relevant traffic. Social media is also good to build authority like google+.

    The best part is, social sites are also good to get your website ranked over search engine because content and information shared across social media is taken into consideration by search engines as an indication of quality information and further it should be ranked accordingly.
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  • Profile picture of the author johnniewalk
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    Hi, Yes For example if you had your links in g+ profile And if you share any content, videos in blogger it will show your profile links in the blogger and it is useful for blog commenting also...
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  • Profile picture of the author sameon
    Social media as far as I know is good for traffic but not really much for SEO. But these traffic could lead to organic visits as long as you got interesting content on your site that visitors could bookmark your site and keep visiting to read it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Madis250
    Tough, social media have a tremendous potential for supporting SEO. Finding your network and communicating with them is in my opinion the base for any marketing.
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  • Profile picture of the author JillADDison
    Yes you may get some advantage from social media linking. Google give those sites much priority which have great existanse on social media. You also can get load of visitors from your social media sites. And don't forgot social media sharing (Link bating) is a important part of SEO.
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  • Profile picture of the author ahmansoor
    Not much directly - but indirectly, yes! social media is important for SEO!
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  • Profile picture of the author ibrahim0103
    It is not impact on seo.white hat seo is best
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  • Profile picture of the author ABPage
    Social media marketing can boost your blog or website direct traffic. Toady, social media is important for SEO!
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  • Profile picture of the author davidpham
    Originally Posted by AndrewAdamSmith View Post

    Does Social media profiles and pages have a big impact on SEO if links are pointing to my site from my social profiles?
    Yes, it 's very good impact. It 's one of the most important
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  • Profile picture of the author danielmav
    Not a big impact, that is for sure.

    Yes Little impact they do have, you will get traffic from these websites. Mostly links will be no follow.
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  • Profile picture of the author HarryBajwa
    Social media signals are used for user trust factors and boost website traffic but it does not involve with ranking factor.
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