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What are the best social networks for SEO?

Do any of the social media networks (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc.) have any effect on SEO? If so, which ones?

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awbrowni30

I tend to use Facebook as my first stop and try to gain as much exposure via ‘fanning’.  The reason I use this approach is based on the fact there are Facebook fan page stat sites that monitor how many fans are gained daily/weekly, and they link to your Facebook fan page.  These sites and links are indexed by Search Engines, and provide another method to reaching your site in regards to indexing as well as overall traffic to your website.  I use Twitter in the same way with the exception of having to ask people to “Please visit and retweet”.  I did use Ning a few times, but then stopped due to pricing model introduction.  Nevertheless, I’ve seen my PageRank go from PR0 to PR5 within 3-4 months.  Thumbs up for Social Media and it helping to get your site on the map in addition to URL site submission tactics.

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grannelle [ Editor ]

LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace are most impacted by search engine results.

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michaelcyger
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@grannelle Most of these sites use link trackers, so the links are not fully valid links. For example, at Linkedin they use links like this http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Epage2sucks%2Ecom&urlhash=oFu-. How could Google or other search engines look at that and provide any link credit? Facebook does the same. Twitter URLs are shortened and I’m not sure if Google gives any credit.

I guess what I’m saying is: do you have any hard evidence to support your statement? I’d like to gain more knowledge on this.

grannelle
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-I have little to offer as to the mechanics of how the bots choose these results, I only know from practical experience that most of my own Google searches reveal these memberships as results.

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jrsanfeliu

I think that it depends also in the content you share in that social networks and the target where you want to focus your website goals. A link from Wikipedia will send good traffic, but it depends on where the link is in wikipedia. YouTube and vimeo cand send also large amounts of traffic if the video becomes viral, or has something really interesting for share it. Just thinking about SEO, i think that the best social networks to share content are Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Linkedin. What do you think?

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anonymous

I am beginning to favor http://www.biznik.com for engagement purposes. There is good chance that your articles are being read by the individuals your targeting. Biznik is an award-winning community of entrepreneurs and small businesses dedicated to helping each other succeed.

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glenn ferrell

Twitter is my favorite. More reach since there are generally more followers (at least for me) than facebook friends. I know people who have great success with Facebook but I don’t use it because my Friends and Family (generally) would not be interested in or understand much of what I post — and with the relatively unpredictable changes that facebook makes, I just don’t have the time to figure out a way to use it for business. Linked-In is great for developing friends and background contacts. Can’t say that I use if for SEO at all.

For me SEO and Social Media have now merged. The goal is not SEO, the goal is traffic and conversions. Twitter posts are indexed and enhance SEO. Twitter retweets don’t really do much for SEO (altho Google’s Social Media influence algorithms may change that) but retweets can drive significant traffic !

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spacecowboy [ Editor ]

I tend to lean toward Linkedin, primarily because it’s an audience question really – facebook/twitter et al. are good for consumer relationship building ( it’s all about having fun ), Linked tends to be better for business relationship building ( it’s about business networking and contacts )

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patcito
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But do you get any interaction with your linkedin contacts? I know I rarely do.

spacecowboy
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fairly good – but then I don’t really use facebook that much so many of my contacts are people I’m generally in contact with

awbrowni30
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Simon, I agree that it’s really based on your audience. Yes, I tend to use LinkedIn to drive awareness as to what projects/content I’m working on. I have received business from LinkedIn… just not as much as Facebook. But again, I’m connected to more of my clients on Facebook than LinkedIn too. That makes a difference. :)

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