Comments on: Deciding Your Future – Content, Social Shares and SEO.

By: HungryPiranha

HungryPiranha — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 10:06:54 +0000

I disagree with Matthew that Google is using the “vanity metrics” as a ranking signal. BUT, with social signals often come links. And no one is going to share your content if it’s not high quality/interesting.

Especially post Penguin, quality is the way forward.

By: Gezgin

Gezgin — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 09:43:58 +0000

Great content is one of the most important element, I think it must be supported by sharing in social media.

By: Rekha

Rekha — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 07:32:08 +0000

Content is a forever element no doubt, it will remain until SEO word disappear from world. Content play a vital role in SEO, social media and any mode of online marketing.

After content there is importance of SEO and SMO as these efforts make our website or blog visible on major search engines.

By: Matthew Ozolins

Matthew Ozolins — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 05:34:55 +0000

There is no doubt social popularity is becoming a huge part of SEO. Google has started to understand that those vanity metrics are actually a really reliable way to determine how relevant users find the content.

This worked well until the black hat guys decided to buy thousands of fake likes for their posts on fiverr. This flaws the system a little because Facebook is very apprehensive about giving user information to Google so at this point they are unable to really know if the people liking a post or page are actually real humans.