The significance of Social Media for SEO – Social SEO

This is a guest post by Paul Smith

Social Seo
Social media is the Internet based media which was designed to facilitate the conversation. At once you will think about Facebook and Twitter, and you will be right. Moreover, there are some specific social media as YouTube, Delicious and Blekko etc. Your blog, site or forum is also social media, and it has become rather important for businessmen. There is too much talk around the web about SEO strategies and Social Media. During the past few years, Social Media has incredibly popularized SEO, and now people talk about these two things as about one unit. I think you cannot but agree with me, that they go hand-in-hand for mutually beneficial success. Search Engine Optimization is all about the content promotion and web-management, and social media allows to share more business data. However, you should be careful with it, as page rankings can make you as well as reduce you. Originally, social media was used just to promote a brand and distribute it further among the customers. Now, it can be successfully used to improve SEO services. Due to these facts, it is obviously, that social media links and interaction play a great role in the promotion of a website’s search rankings.

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Fix Facebook fb_xd_fragment Problem via .htaccess

Facebook fb_xd_fragment problem has been ongoing for quite a while now. This is a known Facebook bug with the XFBML version of the Like button. It appears that Facebook’s JavaScript SDK code is appending fb_xd_fragment parameter to the request URL, which would result in a blank page.

This is not good, according to SEO experts, as it causes to spread duplicate content across your website which can effect your search traffic and SEO ranking. Besides that, it also creates duplicated pages with ?fb_xd_fragment parameter reports in your analytics platform.

Solution

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Pinterest Now Open to the Public

Pinterest is now open to the public, finally removing the Registration Invitation.

The website announced today that users no longer need an invitation to sign up, and anyone is free to join. Anyone can now sign up directly to Pinterest by using your Facebook or Twitter account, or just your email address.

For around 2 years users had to click “Request an Invite” on Pinterest.com, which was usually approved within 2 business days or so.

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How to Post Facebook Status Updates to Twitter

Have you ever wondered how to post Facebook status updates to Twitter?

Most webmasters don’t have a lot of time to spend or dedicate to social media at the same time, so cross-posting is a great time-saving process to publish updates once, rather than logging in to separate social networks and then rewriting the posts.

In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to automatically post Facebook status updates to Twitter. Microblogging site Twitter also offers this type of function. After completing the following steps below, all of your future Facebook status updates will appear on your Twitter updates.

How to Automatically Post Facebook Status Updates to Twitter

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How to get URL of Facebook Posts or Status

In this tutorial I’m going to share some tips on how to get the URL of a Facebook status posts. Sometimes you may need to share a particular post or status to others. For example if you entered a contest and need to show proof of a Facebook status post that you sent.

It’s actually very easy to locate the URL and the specific link for each Facebook status update. It is a link very similar to the way it works on Twitter.

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How To Track Facebook Like in Google Analytics

In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to track Facebook Like in Google Analytics Social Interaction Tracking. This new Analytics feature allows you to track social interactions on your website. It not only tracks +1s, but it also tracks the Twitter button, LinkedIn Share button, and the Facebook Like, Unlike and Send actions.

How to Set Up Social Analytics

The first thing you’ll need in order to implement Social Interaction Tracking is the Google Analytics Code. Be sure to have the Asynchronous Tracking Code running on all pages. The new version of your Google Analytics code goes in the <head> element to better support the new asynchronous Google Analytics script.

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