Social Media Works

I don’t think that anyone can argue with that simple statement. Social Media is important to bloggers! No one can deny that having someone promote your post on social media does work. It does bring traffic and it’s one of the reasons why there are so many social media plugins out there.  Social media is also important to Google. Google is all about giving their customers the best results when using their search engine. Google knows how important social media is and I’ve read in several places how they’ve incorporated social media shares in their algorithms. You can therefore assume the more social shares you get the better the result when it comes to your Google position. Have you noticed though that you’re not getting as many people sharing your content on social media as you used to? Is it because people are becoming blind to the everyday run of the mill social media sharing icons? You’ve heard of ‘ad blindness’ so why not ‘social media blindness’ Perhaps you’ve need to get a new social media plugin? One with special features! In one of my recent posts I talked about the importance of images and SEO. The reason images are important is because people love images. Google knows this which is why they have an images category incorporated in their search engine. Way before that I wrote about a WordPress plugin that used Pinterest to promote your images. A great plugin but unfortunately it limits you to only one social media site. Imagine the results you would get if you could incorporate several of the main social media sites into your images? Read the rest of this entry