Social Media and SEO Ranking Factors

I observed traffic and rankings to my personal SEO blog after penguin 3.0 update I have got extreme changes.
SEO ranking factors
Here are the techniques I have applied in 2014 to my BlogSpot blog.

    Monthly updating blog posts
      Content optimization (internal linking for long tail keywords)
    Sharing post on social media sites Google plus, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Stumbleupon, Delicious and Linkedin.

     Suggestions to get good traffic and ranking to your website in search results.

On Page Checklist & Techniques

    Add your website in Google webmaster tools and register Google analytics
    Proper redirects (Make sure your website URL’s everything with www)
    Update XML Sitemaps for Images and videos.
    Update robots.txt
    Write Meta tags for all pages (Title and description only)
    Write H1 and ALT tags
    Put schema code for your website official logo.
    Update internal linking to your unique and quality content
    Check and fix broken links
    Create custom 404 pages
    Apply authorship (Authorship is still working only a rich snippet is not shown in search results don’t trust rumours)
    Update Major social profiles on website homepage fb, twitter, tumblr, linkedin, pinterest, G plus, youtube etc
    Update phone number and contact details everything on the homepage.
    Update new blog posts frequently and add social sharing buttons to each blog post
    Check and improve your website page speed
    Make your website in responsive design

Find more successful SEO ranking factors for 2015.

Off page Checklist & Techniques


    Local listings and local directories
    High authority social bookmarking submissions
    Video marketing (concentrate only on youtube only, leave other video sites)
    Article posts per month 4 articles (post in ezinezrticles)
    PDF submissions (scribd, slideshare, podcast, docstoc etc.)
    Guest post (choose local and high authority relevant sites only)

 Social Media Marketing, Optimization and Networking

    Social Media Networking
    Update frequent posts (in every 2hours) in top social networks
    Update per day 2 different posts about your website
    Update per day many posts other information which is relevant to your industry
    Share and like other information (ex: your followers or member’s posts)
    Create groups, lists, communities and add members and share knowledge to users.

  Conclusion

Link building is not spam. Still it was working; build high authority quality relevant natural links. Hope the above techniques will help to you. Please give your suggestions if I am missing anything. All the best.

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