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Top Five: Social networks invest in quality news

Sherrilynne Starkie

This week’s must-know social media news for marketing and communications professionals includes headlines about Facebook’s attempt to clean up, support for journalism from Twitter and Google, the continuing importance of links in SEO and some new, clever features from LinkedIn. — SS. — SS . Photo by Sam Shavers.

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SEO Strategies: Optimisation Ideas for Your Google+ Page

Mindjumpers

Tweet Guest post written by Emma Tomlinson , who is the Head of Retail at Smart Traffic, a SEO consulting company based in Bristol delivering successful campaigns to both SMEs and major brands. Most of us know that social media has been playing a big role in several businesses’ Internet marketing campaign.

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10 Ways to Use Social Networks for B2B Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

Social networks are essential for expanding your web presence —not only for creating social signals now a key component in search engine rankings, which makes your website and blog easier to find in search, but also by giving you more places to be found online. This also applies to other professional / social networks (e.g.

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Top Five: Google is shuttering G+

Sherrilynne Starkie

Google has announced that it’s shutting down its G+ social network because hardly anyone is using it. Also because, even though is never took off as a sharing platform, it provided excellent SEO benefits. Get my weekly Top Five delivered directly to your inbox with my free weekly newsletter. We’ll miss you G+.

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5 Ways Your Social Media Posts Improve Your SEO

Convince & Convert

Google has been particularly enigmatic about how, or even if, its rankings are influenced by social media. But the experience of industry professionals has been universal—highly engaged content has much greater SEO value than do less popular pages. Here are five ways to ensure your social media posting helps your SEO.

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Search Engine Optimization THEN Blogging THEN Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

They’ve adapted to using online social networks (namely LinkedIn) to identify passive candidates in the last few years and it’s serving them well. Bookmark a site on a social bookmarking site where they can look it up later and where some of their contacts might discover it. This is a very successful company.

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Search plus your world

Sherrilynne Starkie

Search plus your world can’t be good news for the other social networks such as Facebook and Twitter as it prioritizes G+ content. SEO: social networks influence search rankings. Click here to start to receive my newsletter. Online petition gets country on the map. Facebook ain’t all that.

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