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Social Media Linking and Promotion by Eric Ward• The surge in social media usage has created opportunities (and

frenzy) among link building, SEO, and public relations professionals. It's true that links are shared now by people in multiple ways that didn't exist just a few years ago. But what is the true effect and strategic value of these shared links? How do you encourage or spark the sharing of links and what is the impact on click traffic and search rank? In this session the panelists show live examples of the many ways social media can be used, and sadly abused, for link building and publicity purposes.

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Social Sharing Like It’s 1999…• http://www.urlwire.com/newsarchive/111599a.html

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Social Sharing Like It’s 2011…

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What Is Social Media To You?• Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and Linkedin get the majority of the publicity,

but social media tools and communities exist for many niche subjects and

groups as well.

• http://pupaya.com/

• List of Social Media and Social Networking Sites

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Tweets, Likes, and Shares Can Already Be Purchased, Making Them Algorithmically Untrustworthy.

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Too Many Signals?• If You Are After A Search Rank Boost Via Social Media Interaction, What

“Signals” Should You Be Pursuing?

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The Folly of Followers?• The Signal Metrics Of Social Media, Sharing, Following, Etc., Are Still Being Evaluated.

NOBODY can say with certainty what signals matter the most and what those signals

will be a year from now.

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Twitter Example• If you were a search engine, would the number of followers a person has be an

important number? Not by itself. What about the profiles of those followers? Are they

attracting followers as well? How often do they tweet? How often does what they tweet

get re-tweeted, and by whom? When someone tweets a link, how often is it clicked or

shared, and by whom?

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The Like/Share Resistance Effect• How eager are you to “like” or fan

Depends adult diapers, or

Compound W wart remover, or tweet about

how RID lice treatment helped your kids? Or

about that addiction treatment center?

• Compare those to Lucky Charms Cereal or

Hot Wheels cars. It’s human nature. So, are

products that work well in embarrassing

verticals banished to no-likeville forever?

• How will the engines account for this effect

for rankings purposes?

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What Do We Know, and What Can We Do About It?• The engines want to include social link sharing data

• Early tests (live tweets in Google searches) and self selected networks

(circles), where my search results are only affected by people I’m already

connected to. Re-tweets.

• Social signals can be gamed, and if it can be gamed, people will try

• The engines therefore must focus on the few truly helpful metrics and

influencers

• You have to find the influencers in your vertical, and seek

engagement

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Find the influencers in your vertical, and seek engagement• Find relevant Twitter users with: • http://wefollow.com/

• http://www.twellow.com/

• Find relevant Twitter lists • http://listorious.com/

• Find local Twitter users • http://www.twitterlocal.net/

• http://www.twellow.com/twellowhood

• http://www.localtweeps.com/

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Where I see the real value in Social Media as a link building engine is in recognizing that many people using Social Media tools like Twitter or G+ have trust and influence in very specific subject areas. 

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Closing with an example:

If I want to build links or create awareness of this site http://www.audiology.org

http://bit.ly/sqTxR4

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- Social media’s surface allure is at first about fame and followers. Social’s deeper value is in researched discretion, introducing our content to the right people. If that content is truly worthy, it will be shared.

- Worry less about search engines and more about resource sharing among a handful of experts, often behind the scenes in the corners of the web most people ignore.

- Ironically, it is often these very niche experts that can impact your rankings, because the engines can identify and respect their social footprint.

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