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Jun 4, 2011

Search Gets More Social | SmallBusinessNewz


…whether you like it or not


One thing is clear. For better or for worse, the major search engines are going more social in their quest to deliver more relevant results. In fact, even the non-major ones are as well.


Is social a major part of your search strategy? Let us know.
Google recently announced the global launch of its social search, and Bing heavily boosted its integration with Facebook (the most popular social network - by far). I wrote an article for WebProNews recently looking at how to get more Facebook Likes and more traffic to your site with Facebook, some of which can actually be fueled by search.
Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz, a well known SEO expert gave a talk in Germany recently about the future of link building and the importance of social signals to the influence of search rankings:
It's worth noting that Bing found Fishkin's talk valuable enough to share on its own blog.

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