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Does hiring Facebook / Twitter likes work?

by livemusic
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My sites are 100% USA business, if that matters. Can you hire people to get a shipload of FB "likes" and will it help your SERP? (Or Twitter, whatever people do on there, I don't know much about Twitter.)

If you can hire it done, if all of the clicks are from India, and your site is for USA clients, do the Asian clicks even count?

If hiring this done isn't good, how do you do it? Just ask your FB friends to like your page? I wonder how many likes is necessary to get benefit?
#facebook #hiring #likes #twitter #work
  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Facebook likes have nothing to do with rankings.
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  • Profile picture of the author livemusic
    I thought I have read lately (in the latest iteration of countless words I have read about SEO... I do this every year or two) that Google loves social signals. What are the social signals? What matters and how do you get them?

    P.S. The average internet surfer has no interest in what I do; my sites are only for a certain segment of America.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by livemusic View Post

      I thought I have read lately (in the latest iteration of countless words I have read about SEO... I do this every year or two) that Google loves social signals. What are the social signals? What matters and how do you get them?

      P.S. The average internet surfer has no interest in what I do; my sites are only for a certain segment of America.
      It's just lies spread by people selling Facebook likes.
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  • Profile picture of the author zeyfah
    people have to 'like' you because they like you. having likes from those that don't like you is just a waste of time. what's the point of having tons of likes and tons of traffic if people just navigate away the moment they visit your site?

    my opinion is: a great website is not from its rankings or the total likes it has. but how it can convert the targeted traffic it gets into sales.

    too much traffic if you can't convert it translates to bounce rate. and that puts unnecessary load on your server. so i think its a waste of resources.
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  • Profile picture of the author alvinchua91
    Treat Facebook likes as a way of validation of your business (from your customers' POV).

    Don't see it mainly as a way of SEO.
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  • Profile picture of the author arindamroy
    Actually there is not much that FB/Twitter likes can do for SEO. However, they tend to increase popularity of a page and bring on more followers/subscribers. There are several sites that can increase FB likes/Twitter followers. Having said this, the well known blogger and internet marketer Neil Patel carried out an experiment involving 3 sites where he checked if social media can at all have a say in search engine rankings. The results showed a marked increase in rankings for a site for which social media was done.
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  • Profile picture of the author bernice jackson
    yes, surely hiring the facebook/twitter likes will gives you the best result but this is the last stage of promoting your website, if your website has been constantly placed in the second page of search engine results means, then you can do the process of hiring or buying the facebook/twitter likes as this will gives you the best result of placing your website in the first page of the search engine.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by bernice jackson View Post

      yes, surely hiring the facebook/twitter likes will gives you the best result but this is the last stage of promoting your website, if your website has been constantly placed in the second page of search engine results means, then you can do the process of hiring or buying the facebook/twitter likes as this will gives you the best result of placing your website in the first page of the search engine.
      Ignore this. Bernice has no idea what she is talking about.
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  • Profile picture of the author alex93
    Originally Posted by livemusic View Post

    My sites are 100% USA business, if that matters. Can you hire people to get a shipload of FB "likes" and will it help your SERP? (Or Twitter, whatever people do on there, I don't know much about Twitter.)
    Would avoid buying 'likes' personally, if they all come from the same IP address it will hit you like a ton of bricks, we have over 100,000 retweets and i only tweet one post per month, or perhaps 2-3 max, but often i simply do a competition and give away a free game each month to a random retweet winner.

    Depending on your niche you could do this, you can also buy followers from sites like Twiends to start the ball rolling, and this way you get people initially on the Twitter account to start the retweet campaign.
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