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Journal tenazyno's Journal: Utilizing Social Signals the Correct Way for SEO

Google released the Penguin update in 2012 and, for a short while, the Internet BlockBuzz business community was in a lot of flux. People were very worried about the affect that it would have on them. Part and parcel with this latest update concerns the extreme importance of social signals. This mainly has to do with SEO but it is really important to the amount of traffic you attract to your Block Buzz website. Trying to ignore this development can only be detrimental to the success of your BlockBuzz business. Sure it is trendy but that doesn't mean it is going to fade any time soon. Here are some accurate guidelines for using social signals for SEO or general applications.

When you're talking about social signals, you have to talk about social channels too. This is another method of consideration when it comes to search and optimizing for it. But it's one you cannot ignore and it will only continue becoming something you won't be able to ignore. Each of your channels relates to the others, and because of this, they are all going to affect each other. Not only should you take this under consideration, you are going to need to figure out which things will help you quantify those effects. A typical example is using Twitter and Facebook in your marketing. There are so many different BlockBuzz businesses out there these days that are funneling traffic to their Facebook pages through Twitter. You should be doing this too and if you aren't, at the very least, you need to be measuring and tracking what you are doing and how well you are doing it.

If you Block Buzz website is on the large size, getting people to see your internal pages will not be all that easy. This explains why social signals have a huge importance. Also, don't forget to make intelligent use of linking within your BlockBuzz advertising site. This can be accomplished by using plugins and linking the posts together via automation. But make sure that you do not do anything that will increase your load time.

You can also make use of paid ads on Twitter and Facebook as a stop gap measure. Plenty of Block Buzz websites will place ads in order to get more people to visit the block buzz advertising site. Ensure that you are putting money on the right targeted market.

Using SEO on your Facebook page doesn't just help on Facebook, it can help with the rest of your marketing too. Posting spammy feeling content isn't a good idea and, in fact, you should work hard to avoid it. Facebook's people are already well versed in this, a fact that shouldn't be surprising seeing as those same people are in the Google SERPs. Speaking of which, don't forget to test and monitor your search results for the social content and pages you've published. Twitter and Google no longer seem to have the relationship they once enjoyed. So the real time results with Twitter have been gone from the SERPS for some months. But you can still take advantage of Facebook in your SEO.

You don't have a good reason to worry about Google, social signals or SEO. What has worked in the past with high quality content and BlockBuzz advertising site user satisfaction will still take you far. Now, you just need to harness the social signals people are willing to create and you'll be fine.

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