What's the Real Relationship Between Organic Rankings & Social Shares? (Hint: They're Related, But Not the Way You Think)

02:59 06.09.2016
Posted by larry.kimOne of the biggest areas of speculation, contention, and confusion within the SEO universe over the past six years or so has been whether (or how much) social media signals impact organic search rankings. But even if Google isn’t directly using social share counts in their search algorithms, there ought to be some other explanation out there about why high share counts correlate with high organic search rankings. Well, that is exactly what we’re going to research in this post. Are social ...
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