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Social Media’s Influence on Search: Going Beyond Rankings
Jennifer Sable Lopez Director of Community at Moz
@jennita
Is Social a Ranking Factor?
No.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udqtSM-6QbQ
Not Directly
How We’d Like it to Work
Create a Great Resource
Get Tons of Social Shares
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Rank #1 in Google!
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How it Really Works
Create a Great Resource
Get Tons of Social Shares
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Shared with Authority
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Of Varying Degrees
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Lots of People See it
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Get Mentions Across Web
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Earn Lots of Links
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With Varying Anchor Text
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From High Authority Sites
Including This One?
Including This One?
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Rank #1 in Google!
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Whew.
Social Assists + Influences
SEO in Many Ways
Quick Indexing
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G+ post indexed!Damn good lookin’ SERP right there!
Grows Exposure
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Increase Links
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Beginner’s Guide to Social launched in January. !In February we did another push. !It continues to earn links & social shares!!
Demonstrates Popularity
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Signal of Relevance
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Connect your G+ account to Adwords!
“Recent posts” is all about our latest launch!!
Branding
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Personalized Results
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This is a G+ Post Page – They ALL get indexed!
Good thing we had “Moz Local” in the beginning of the title eh?!
Grow Traffic
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Social! Search!
How Do You
Integrate Social Into
Your Search Strategy?
Start by Making the
Experience Consistent.
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Let’s Look at this Post
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How it Looks in Search
Ooooh Noms!!!
449 calories!!
Author has other recipes!
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And on Facebook
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What about Twitter?
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Boom. Pinterest.
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Overall Experience?
Holy Consistency!!
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How Most Pages Look
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Nice, Informational Page
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SERP - Looks Good eh?
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What About on Facebook?
Not too bad, eh?
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And Pinterest…
Oooh! Pretty picture
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Google+
Ouch.
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Snooze...
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Overall Experience?
Completely Inconsistent
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Put as Much Effort
Into Social as You Do
Into Search
Start With Open Graph
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Nutella SERP
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Nutella Page on Facebook
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How Open Graph Works
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On-Page Title + Title Tag!
Title When Shared on FB!
OpenGraph – http://ogp.me
!<!-- Open Graph data -->!<meta property="og:title" content="Title Here" />!!<meta property="og:type" content="article" />!!<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.example.com/" />!!<meta property="og:image" content="http://example.com/image.jpg" />!!<meta property="og:description" content="Description Here" />! !
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Facebook Debugger
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https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug!
Facebook Debugger
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If your page isn’t showing up properly in FB!
Facebook Debugger
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Or you have an old version of the page cached in FB!
Facebook Debugger
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Use the FB Debugger to re-cache!!
Twitter Cards
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Regular Text Tweet
Snooze...
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Summary Card (default)
Community
WIN!!
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Summary Card Large Image
Community
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Twitter Card Code !<!-- Twitter card data -->!<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary">!!<meta name="twitter:site" content="@twitterhandle">!!<meta name="twitter:creator" content="@AuthorTwitter”> ! !<meta name="twitter:title" content=”Title specific to Twitter – short works great!">!!<meta name="twitter:description" content=”Remember this is being shared on Twitter, make it enticing to the FB user.">!!<meta name="twitter:image" content=”image URL for the image you want to display">!!
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Twitter Card Validator
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards/validation/validator!
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Add Your Site
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Twitter Card Analytics
Pinterest – Rich Pins
https://developers.pinterest.com/rich_pins/!
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Regular Pin
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Rich Pin
!
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Rich Pin
!
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http://mz.cm/1hD5c8H!
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Rich Pin = Schema.org
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Rich Pins Validator
https://developers.pinterest.com/rich_pins/validator/!
There’s No Doubt, that
Social Influences Search.
It’s Your Job, to Make
the Most out of It!
Jennifer Sable Lopez Director of Community at Moz
@jennita !!
Thank You
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