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This article is perfect 🙂 for this article.

I agree. From SEO side, strictly organic SEO and Google ranking Social Media shares are not a strong causation, they are more like a good correlation.

I love social shares because i get links that drive traffic, awarness, trust. All these things have an indirect, long term impact to my SEO :). I also love blog comments :).

Authorship will rule, this is the strongest signal for trust that Google developed. I try for 3-4 days to write a full article about this subject. It was super hot topic last year. Author Rank will be a strong signal for ranking content in search.

PS: Sorry for my late response.

Thanks for the comment. Of course we need to look also to the other part of having the brand on social networks, not only on the SEO part. Taking care of you social accounts is very important, that’s why I said “keep in mind that if the social network is not relevant to your business and audience or if you don’t take care of them, it’s better you don’t create them”. Social Media has also other things to care about like traffic grow as you said and more. Here is an article on SM and what you can do with it: http://www.rudibedy.com/blog/doing-social-media-campaigns-is-easy/

I give you right, it shows what is hot at the moment. Remember when google and twitter had the contract? They had real-time feed search with tweets.

@Daniel Ene So what you are saying is that if I have a long term strategy for getting lots of mentions and votes of a specific URL, it’s useless because it won’t affect in any way on the long term the search rankings, but it does in the short term? Why would it be like this, just short term?

I mean by getting a constant number of votes/mentions it means that the URL is for long term, not short term as it would be with a news article. Which naturally fades away because of the age.

Links on public networks, like Twitter are as natural as possible. These are not long term links, still, they count when published on high rated accounts because those account pages have juice like any other page.

Of course there is more to the story and lots of details which I didn’t published in the article. Think about all the websites/blogs that get their twitter feed on their websites in clear and not trough a flash/java plugin, those are normal links coming from a website.

But what about Google+, +1′ and authorship? It does affect the search rankings, maybe more than all other social networks.

I do think Social Shares are not a causation for ranking high in Google. They are a good correlation because if an article gets social media coverage then it’s highly possible to get natural links.

Natural and relevant links always count more than any other links.

Social Media also helps web pages to get index faster.

Another thing with Social Shares and Google ranking is for short term. For example if you write a story or some news about something that is has big interest, then Google will see those social shares and will think that your story interest many other people in the world or your country, city. This is very possible for short term to gain some high rankings.