Promoting your posts at Facebook / Twitter helpful for SEO!?!

by nik0 Banned

Posted: 10 years ago 14 replies

I keep doing it now for quite a while and I see zero proof that it helps in any way besides the occasional visitor from there.

What's your experience?

#facebook #helpful #posts #promoting #seo #twitter

patadeperro 10 years ago

The only real experience I have with social media helping your seo efforts is via Reddit, see my signature and I explain several cases where I generated massive traffic and youc reate a "viral effect" where people share the page, backlink to you and as long as the backlinks you craete are sorrounded by terms related to your market the results seems to be pretty good.

I have never seen anything with Facebook or Twitter ever.
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UnkwnUsr 10 years ago

Why would paid traffic help with SEO? If you're thinking about social signals I think they are overrated for SEO. Most of the times I seen a boost from social signals was because the content got picked up on another site leading to more links. The social signal itself doesn't do much if anything.
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- IMdeaming 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by UnkwnUsr
  
  Why would paid traffic help with SEO?
  
  Reading really is fundamental ya know. :rolleyes:
  
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  UnkwnUsr 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by IMdeaming
  
  Reading really is fundamental ya know. :rolleyes:
  
  Sorry, thought he meant "Promoted Post" I can see how that ruined your day though. :pStill stand by what I said I've never seen social signals make any real difference for SEO.
  
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  UnkwnUsr 10 years ago
  
  Sorry, bro I totally misinterpreted your post as a dig at my comment. I must be in a touchy mood today.
  
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IMdeaming 10 years ago

It's a sham dude. Somebody read it somewhere and now everybody else just repeats it because hey, that's what people do on these forums. Little do they know how stupid it makes em look. And yes I've thoroughly tested social, not the bot stuff either.
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Jeannie Crabtree 10 years ago

I am not seeing it help much with SEO, as in moving my site up the Google pages.

However part of the reason I am using social is to stop depending on Google for traffic...

Using Pinterest (887 fans as of today), I am sending traffic from there to other places and it is working. Best one yet: One particular board, I gave a facebook url using pretty link which tracks it. Dec. 18th through today I have had 296 unique hits. Some of them were bots, but not most.

From Facebook, I am setting up something people will want and collect some newsletter signups.

It was a lot of work to get all this started, but after a few tries, I can see that I can get traffic, all without using Google.
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paulgl 10 years ago

Nik0, are you morphing into a bot?

How can you even get facebook twitter SEO in the same sentence
with a straight face?

A simliar question would be,

Will my site on a bumper sticker help with SEO?

Paul
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- nik0 Banned 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by paulgl
  
  Nik0, are you morphing into a bot?
  
  How can you even get facebook twitter SEO in the same sentence
  with a straight face?
  
  I'm not the only one here
  
  What Everybody Missed About Hummingbird: Social Signals
  
  Your Guide to Social Signals for SEO - Moz
  
  How Much Do Social Signals Play Into Google Rankings? - Search Engine Watch (#SEW)
  
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  Bruce99 10 years ago
  
  I am not a billionaire yet, so there is no reason to believe my claims, but this is my experience.
  
  I am in a dog industry niche. I use facebook and twitter. I used a service to originally gain members (like link bait) and after the first month just built on that. It was legal ...
  
  The reason I had facebook as because it was too hard to monitor spam on a forum or blog on my own site. Those things are good if all you do is IM, but my day job is walking dogs and selling dog treats, so I found from experience on other people's forums that unless you have a whole bunch of good free moderators, fb was a much better option.
  
  While fb following has not grown substantially, I do use it to highlight markets that I will be selling at and when my free coupon newsletter is coming out. Those things get resent by people and I have grown membership slightly from that. People join to see my daily real life dog walking pics.
  
  Twitter I have seen much less results from. Though I only have 1000 followers. twitter seems to be saturated with people flogging staged pics of dogs telling a sad story in text (like the 1990's motivational posters), so perhaps its saturated in my niche.
  
  Besides reading that it was good for seo, about a year ago I did link analysis of competitor (top five) sites, and found that many of the highest value links were apparently from twitter. I was using majestic and another tool for that analysis.
  
  Yes if you get re-tweeted and go vital (for a good post, not a disaster) then I can see how you can get extra likes or followers etc, and maybe new customers to your site ... but true, i have not cracked that league yet.
  
  That is my experience so far ... hope I didn't bore the high flyers too much!
  
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fjouad 10 years ago

YES ! OF course promoting your posts on facebook and twitter is very useful on SEO

BUT you steel need to creat backlinks ( blogcomms, forums links, web 2.0 .....) because social signs is just a factor on the backlinks strategies .... so you need to complete your strategie if you want to see your blog on first page !!!
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- nik0 Banned 10 years ago
  
  One of my clients, an SEO company in Denmark attended an SEO conference in the US. There they taught that it helps a website when they have a presence on social media.
  
  Not exactly for the likes or tweets but more so that Google knows that it's a real site with a face behind it and not some anonymous affiliate site and thus it would help in preventing penalties tailored towards (thin) affiliate sites.
  
  It's a bit far sought perhaps but on the other hand it also makes some sense as Google prefers to see real companies / websites ranking at the 1st page in terms of reliability. I mean if I write a total nonsense review on an anonymous site it's harder to held me responsible for it then when there's a company / face behind it.
  
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xpesos 10 years ago

i have did this a lot asking people to promote my facebook shares or twitter tweets but i hardly ever had some significant results, Only stumbleupon shares and pinterest repins showed me some results
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The SEO 10 years ago

If you're looking to best traffic generator then Facebook is on no. 1 and twitter is after him. You can drive direct, real and most organic traffic through Facebook pages via popular fan pages.
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