Why should SEOs care about social media?
Put simply you should care because the search engines do.
The end.
Just kidding, but if that was the entirety of my post that would be enough.
Social media represents many things to search engines. Voting and engagement points are feeding critical user data to the engines via their toolbars and browsers. The UGC created by social media makes up a huge component of the interlinking web, and has provided some of the engines largest spam problems. And if all of this was not enough, Twitter, a platform initially designed for inner-office communication, is posing the realest threat to Google’s strong hold on search.
Links
No SEO worth anything is going to argue against the importance links in ranking.
Social media offers the greatest opportunity for massive quality link acquisition since the penalization of paid links.
Getting Social: Why SEOs Should Care About Social Media
Harvard Found The Public Has Little Objection To AI Taking Search
Marketers’ Jobs via @sejournal, @gregjarboe
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Harvard scored 940 occupations on how morally objectionable the public
finds automating them. Search marketing scored low at 2.31 out of 7
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