1. Pubcon Las Vegas 2014
Tomorrow’s SEO Today
Social Search and Beyond

2. Tomorrow’s SEO Today – Social Search and Beyond - Overview
Overview
• History of Social Signals
• Google Being Vocal about Social
• Setting Up Social Media Profiles
• Sharing content properly
• Social Signals’ SEO research, studies
• Social Signals’ Future

3. Social Search and Beyond – History of Social Signals and SEO
History of Social Signals and SEO
• Real-Time Search Launched December 2009
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-launches-latest-results-realtime-search/15290/
• Google goal: to strive to bring us “the freshest, most comprehensive and
relevant search results over an ever expanding universe of content on the
multitude of devices” we “use to access it.”
• Google, Circa 2009
• July 2011, Twitter Firehose ended.

4. Social Search and Beyond – Google Has Been Vocal on Social
Signals
Google Has Been Vocal on Social Signals
Matt Cutts at SES San Fran 2012 Keynote:
“Google has a 10 year plan for relying on social factors as a part of the
algorithm… In the short term, Google is still relying on links as an important
ranking factor.”
Question: Are social signals a ranking factor?
“They have to have access to the data. Some sites are blocked, Facebook, etc..
If they can’t crawl, then they won’t have the data.”

5. Social Search and Beyond – Google Has Been Vocal on Social
Signals
Google Has Been Vocal on Social Signals
Matt Cutts at SES San Fran 2012 Keynote:
Regarding real time search:
“Twitter is like a private nightclub. Fundamentally they can suspend anyone if they
want. Anyone can compete with Google if they can crawl better.
Google announced (in 2012) that they crawl 20 billion pages a day. When the Twitter
firehose deal ended, they were blocked from crawling. When Twitter went away, Google
was leery about relying on that data.”
(Was this when they started to change their tune about signals?)

6. Social Search and Beyond – What Can You Do Now?
What Can You Do Now?
• Set up social profiles
• Contribute, update regularly
• Share content
• Add friends/followers
• Be active! Every single day…

7. Social Search and Beyond – Setting Up Social Profiles
Setting Up Facebook Profile
• Set up Business Page (Facebook.com/globerunnerseo)
• Google crawls biz pages, not personal accounts
• Promote Facebook post, even for $5
• Bing has FB personal account data
• Does anyone care about Bing rankings?
• Sorry, Duane Forrester!

8. Social Search and Beyond – Facebook Sponsored Post
Pubcon Las Vegas 2014 Post
• Wrote a post last week about Pubcon Las Vegas.
• Posted on blog, promoted
• Facebook sponsored post
• Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Ello
• Result? It got indexed quickly

9. Social Search and Beyond – Setting Up Social Profiles
Setting Up Social Accounts
• Don’t follow more than following you
• Post on your blog? Share the full URL, not a short URL.
• Tweet of URL helps get URL crawled quickly.

10. Social Search and Beyond – Setting Up Social Profiles
LinkedIn
• Full personal profile with good photo/avatar is imperative.
• Share your blog posts, articles, updates.
• “Like” contacts’ updates, they get emailed that you liked it.

11. Social Search and Beyond – Setting Up Social Profiles
Setting Up Google+
• Google+ Local biz (page), verify listing, used for Publishership
• Google+ Personal Account, used for Authorship
• Google Publishership: Important for home page, content pages

12. Social Search and Beyond – Dominate Your Personal Brand on
Google+
Optimize Your Profile on Google+
• Fill Out Entire Profile, Every Field
• Summary with Facts
• Add relevant keywords
• Get local – add location
• Add anchor text links!

13. Social Search and Beyond – Dominate Your Personal Brand on
Google+
Optimize Your Profile on Google+
• Write Great Content, share Great Content
• Manage Your Contacts, Put in Circles
• Join Niche Specific Communities
• Pay Attention to Your Ripples
• Create a Visually-Rich Experience
• Use Google+ Hangouts
• Display Your Google Plus Badge on Your Site

14. Social Search and Beyond – Dominate Your Personal Brand on
Google+
Watch, Use Google Ripples
• Watch hot posts, network with influencers based on Ripples

15. Social Search and Beyond – Dominate Your Personal Brand on
Google+
Adding Followers on Google+
• Search for Circles “Keyword Circle” or “SEO Circle”.
• Find others who shared their circles
• Add those people all at once, move later to other circle

16. Social Search and Beyond – Social Promotion for SEO
Promoting Social Media on Your Site
• Include Social Icons in Key Places
• Show actual number of +1s, Tweets, etc.
• +1 buttons, Tweet, LinkedIn, Facebook Like Button
• WordPress? Social Media Counters Plugin

17. Social Search and Beyond – Promoting Blog Posts for SEO
Promoting Posts on Social Media
Sites
• Post on site, get ready to promote immediately
• Write alternate titles, headlines, summaries
• Each social share gets unique title, headline, summary
33 Speakers I Want to Meet at Pubcon
33 People I Want to See at Pubcon
33 To See at Pubcon

18. Social Search and Beyond – Promoting Blog Posts for SEO
Promoting Posts on Social Media
Sites
• Network with others to help promote:
- bloggers write alternative post, summary post, links to you
- promote both summary posts and main post

19. Social Search and Beyond – Promoting Blog Posts for SEO
Promoting Posts on Social Media
Sites
• Promoting posts need to happen quickly: within 2 hours
• Building momentum with social shares is key

20. Social Search and Beyond – The future of social and SEO?
So, What Now?
Matt Cutts said “Facebook and Twitter Pages Are Treated Like Any
Other Web Page On the Internet”. http://bit.ly/social-signals-pages
Think of social pages, shares, and profiles as pages.
• Get links from those pages.
• How to get good links? Network socially with influencers.
• When you interact with influencers:
Their profile links to your profile, could pass PageRank.

21. Social Search and Beyond – Future Social Signals for SEO
Future Social Signals for SEO?
• Building up a following counts more
• History of writing, authoring, sharing good content.
• Your content shared by influencers counts more

22. Social Search and Beyond – So What Now? (Finally)
We Know +1s, Tweets, Likes Don’t
Count
• Technically, we know they don’t count.
• Does it matter, really? No. Keep sharing!
Studies and research:
Does Facebook activity impact SEO?
http://bit.ly/1E9BTCX
Measuring Google Plus Impact on Search Rankings
http://bit.ly/1CIM2F4

23. Social Search and Beyond – Thank You
THANK YOU
Contact Me
Bill Hartzer
Senior SEO Strategist
Globe Runner SEO
Email: Bill@GlobeRunnerSEO.com
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