Having been in the world of SEO for so many years I definitely have developed habits and strategies that have helped me get to the top of Google for many phrases.
When people ask me what I am doing lately to work around Google updates I always tell them the same. “You might be disappointed with my answer but I am doing the same things I have been doing for years and it still works.”
The bottom line is if you do SEO the right way updates from Google should only increase your strong hold in the rankings.
Now, having said all of that, social media is an area that I truly see a need to get on board with new process and techniques to make sure I can maintain results that I have achieved.
I recognize that with the addition of Google+ to the social media world that Google is going to be using social media much more deeply to provide relevant results to its users.
I recently read an article that talks all about certain social media SEO strategies website owners can implement to help with the overall SEO strategy.
Some of the strategies include:
Ramping up your Google+ presence.
Focus on building relationships and getting followers.
Posting links to your articles and blog posts on social media
There are other very good strategies and you should definitely check it out.
As social media becomes more and more common place Google and other search engines are going to be forced to make this more integrated into their algorithm so getting on board now will be the best thing you can do.
I was told that Google likes to see you have a Facebook Page along with a Twitter account to go along with your website. The problem I am having is that I have a lot of different websites and it is hard to have a Facebook page for each of the websites. I don’t know if this works or not but I have my main Facebook page promoting a mlm company I am in and have about 10 websites for that one mlm. I use the same Facebook page for all of the websites. I put links back to my websites from that one Facebook page. I do have a couple of Twitter accounts that I tweet all my websites on. Truthfully I don’t know if I’m using my accounts properly or if I am just wasting my time and hurting my rank. I did get one of my websites crushed by the new Google rules but then it actually helped a couple of others. My websites bounce from being ranked #4 one day to being ranked 12th the next and then back to 8 or 9 later that same day. This has never happened to my websites until now. Could this be because of me tweeting at different times of the day and do the tweets move the rankings that fast????