I haven't been paying attention to backlink for a while now. Heck, I think they are the past. I'm not totally saying social is the only future, but it's an easier future if they can figure out a way to make it work properly with rankings.

Here are some awesome graphs on how social is increasing as a vital tool in ranking.

Social Signals from Facebook and Twitter:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/facebook-...earch-rankings

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I've been using Facebook a lot lately. Exceeding almost 5,000 fans per fanpage I have with very little investment and the traffic is amazing. I've automated an entire business model using a program called HootSuite and it's saving me hours of tedious work.

Here are my stats that were posted a while back. I'm going to post another blog with more up to date stats soon for this particular page.



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To stay focused I actually pushed my start menu (i'm on a windows machine) to the right side of the screen. This way I am not constantly reminded of other pages and I am more inclined to actually do something.

Ontop of that I also only have 1 instant messaging service (Skype) that I use currently. And the only people on that account are important business partners or very important friends. To talk with actual friends, I actually prefer to use email versus social networks like Facebook...

Before reading, this blog relates to the following thread for further details click here to read the thread

BEWARE, I AM NOT THE BEST WRITER IN THE WORLD
But to just toss it out there.. I did write the content on the website


Just thought I would share a bit of my success with niche marketing seeing as it seems to be a big hype in the forum lately, due to a post by LMC last month.

I have been in the internet marketing ring since the beginning...