What is Social SEO?
Social Media is something we use every day since Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and tumblr have been successfully integrated into smartphone devices. Every day we check our smart devices for the latest news and updates, liking and sharing the news piece.
What does this have to do with SEO? A lot. As rumors go, SEO is dying. Many people don’t see the positive side of SEO as many term the word ‘dirty’. SEO is mostly attributed to creating accessible websites with high quality content, is heavily keyword optimized and contains no broken links. Sure, the website may link to other high quality websites to gain “link juice” to boost up ranking but that’s just the jist of it. SEO is aimed to cater results to be shown in Google’s first page.
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So why is Social SEO is important when actual SEO is possibly dying off? Social Media search now encompasses approximately 32% of discoverable search results in Google. Google itself displays only 13% of organic results. As people are spending more time on their smart phones, searches are now optimized to show results based on the user’s geographical location, language and so forth.
Social Media SEO is creating a bigger impact than expected, increasing by 25% since 2011 according to user surveys based upon people who use social media as their main search tools. People like to talk. People like to share. With the nature of social media, all of this is possible; news spreads quickly by likes, shares, reblogging, re-tweeting are such examples. Almost with every piece of news, multiple hashtags are used to highlight keywords without resorting to spamming the content.
The benefits of social media is that these services does not limit a person to one device. Therefore, news can be read and shared anytime, anywhere.
The more people talk, like, share and use hashtags, the better the keyword ranks. There’s no need for particular methods to boost keywords and their content; with Google’s ever changing algorithm and spiders crawling the web, there is really no need to be completely Google-dependent any more. Social media is taking over search engines, to produce the results you want and displaying the news you want to read.
