SEO is all about growing organically, and in order to develop an effective organic online marketing plan, it’s important to not only look at SEO, but also at content marketing and social media.
The SEO algorithm is constantly changing. Social content is consumed at an alarming rate and is increasing by the day. As people continually turn to social media platforms to search and interact, it becomes important for businesses and brand agencies to improve their design thinking, presence, and especially content.
Social media is crucial to growing a successful business presence online. And equally essential is SEO. However, there is something else that most people overlook: how SEO and social media marketing are closely related. That or they are clouded by popular misconceptions and myths. So how is social media marketing connected to SEO? Does posting to multiple social channels improve company rankings? Isn’t it possible to get a rank without it?
Let’s explore some of the roles social media plays in SEO.
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Social media channels are nothing more than search engines.
Treating social platforms like search engines is the best way forward. That way, the probability of increasing visibility and range is higher. The idea is to be where potential customers are, presenting them with the information, results, and content that they are specifically looking for.
That being said, it’s important to mention that search visibility is not greatly improved by the information presented on the social media page. Social profiles could help users to obtain information; however, it is done indirectly. When Google evaluates the local ranking of a certain page and provides information, it does so through an external network of third-party sites and directories. These directories collect your information from multiple web sources, such as a company’s social platform. Because of this, filling out complete information on social profiles can give a business an advantage with regard to visibility and accuracy in online listings.
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What are social cues?
This is another category where misinterpretations abound. Many believe that if an article is shared multiple times, its ranking improves on Google. But it’s not like that. Social signals do not have to do with the popularity of a piece of information, that is, the number of times users of social platforms share it from their own feed, but with the number of users who share the information from the page on the company site using social sharing buttons. This is how Google can measure rankings. However, the quality of the content, the authority of the company, and the inbound links play a more crucial role in deciding a page’s ranking.
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Get more visibility and inbound links
This is possibly the best and most valuable method by which you can help a company’s SEO. As long as they are earned naturally, inbound links are probably the most trusted authority builders in the SEO world. But these are often hard to earn unless built directly with guest posts or some other method. One surefire way to increase the number of inbound links a website receives is to increase the number of people finding your content. Yes, it is that simple. As long as the quality of the content is great on the website and people link to this page as a result, increasing the audience by a substantial amount will give the website at least 10 new inbound links. And all these would be natural, derived from different sources.
Digital agencies need to remember that the role of social media is entirely dependent on the company’s ability to produce top-notch content that users would like to connect with and consume. If the content is link-worthy, there is no doubt that the audience size would increase. Marketing agencies need to learn from their lessons, stay active on social channels, experiment a lot, and not rely on one strategy to increase a company’s rankings and ratings.