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Add Social Media buttons to increase your Search Engine Visibility

More and more, search and social media are converging. Not only are users using social recommendations to find things, but the major search engines have started using “social signals” to determine the relevance and authority of different sites.

What this means is that if you want to continue (or start) to rank well in the search engine results pages, you need to integrate your social media and Search Engine Optimization strategies.

Search engines have started factoring in social signals because they come from real human beings. Since search engines are trying to serve up results that are relevant to real human beings, what better way than to look at what humans are already sharing with other humans?

So if everyone talks about you one day and then stops, you’ll probably rank really well for a while, and then plummet again. This means that you’ll have to attract social signals on an ongoing and consistent basis

Facebook

Facebook Share is one of the most powerful and simple ways for users to share articles, pages, video, or Flash content from your site with their friends on Facebook. Over 1 billion pieces of content are shared each week on Facebook, and many of those are links shared using Facebook Share.

Google +1

Google +1 is a new social media tool from Google. The +1 button is shorthand for "this is pretty cool" or "you should check this out." Click +1 to publicly give something your stamp of approval. Your +1's can help friends, contacts, and others on the web find the best stuff when they search.

Twitter

The Tweet Button lets you share links directly from the page you’re on. When you click on the Tweet Button, a Tweet box will appear -- pre-populated with a shortened link that points to the item that you’re sharing. The Tweet Button will help publishers grow traffic and increase their Twitter following.