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Results of the Social Media Experiment

September 30, 2012 by Joseph 14 Comments

Link to the overview of the experiment: Can I Enhance Google Rankings Using Social Media Alone?

I can’t say that anything’s particularly conclusive here. As soon as the webpage started to receive “social attention” it moved up the Google rankings swiftly – from 11th to 3rd within a matter of hours.

Mind you, the competition for this keyword phrase (Does Google PageRank Still Matter) is probably very little indeed (I’ve not checked nor have I checked search volumes).

Really, before I carried out this little bit of experimentation, I had no doubt that a social weighting factor works in terms of achieving Google rankings. Whether I’m even more convinced now, well, perhaps so, yes.

The ranking has dropped a couple of spots since a day or so ago although it’s dancing around just a little – one moment it’s up again, next and it’s dropped back.

I’ve lined up another bout of social buzz which should take place within the next 5 – 6 days.

For anyone who is interested in what I used to get the social buzz in gear. Simple – fiverr gigs! Only one of them so far, and the other still to come, as mentioned. I’ll list the ones I used below. I think the former is much better because it’s an express gig and it’s completed within 24 hours of making the order. Other than that though and they appear to be similar.

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First Gig: http://fiverr.com/ann1234/give-you-50-real-human-best-quality-facebook-likes-and-with-that-ill-give-5-google-1-5-tweet-and-5-stumble-up-on-as-a-bonus

Second Gig: http://fiverr.com/supti07/give-your-website-25-digg-plus-25-retweet-plus-25-googleplus-one-plus-25-facebook-like-plus-25-stumble-upon-organic-votes

There’s no doubt at all that I’ll be using social “factors” a whole lot more in any ranking campaigns I’m involved in. As I said before, even though lots of SEO folks talk about social factors being instrumental in gaining Google rankings, I think we’ve only really started to scratch below the surface. There’s a whole lot more to come from using social media to achieve high level/ top level Google rankings and there’s much experimentation still to be done to find the better combinations for what works well and what works very well.

Fun times ahead! Exciting times ahead?

Filed Under: Fiverr Gigs for SEO, General SEO, Social Media as a Way to Rank in Google Tagged With: Google SEO, rank in Google, social media to rank in Google

Can I Enhance My Google Rankings Using Social Media Alone? (no standard backlinking allowed)

September 27, 2012 by Joseph 27 Comments

I’ve decided to do a little experiment using my blog. That’s risky because I don’t want Google to shoot my blog down the rankings just because I’ve been playing around with some stuff that perhaps I ought not to be playing around with.

But hey, I’ve confidence that this will either work out fairly well, or no harm will come to my blog’s Google rankings. Did I say I’m confident…?

Okay, so here’s the deal.

Most of us are aware that Google like Likes. I mean, Google like not only Likes, but they also like Tweets, they like Stumbles, they like Diggs, and the list goes on and on. Now -a-days, these social factors are seen by the search engines as good reason to rank a webpage high in search.

I’m convinced that social media is a very strong factor now in terms of gaining Google rankings. It’s fairly obvious that it works and there have been various studies to prove that it does. Apart from that though, Google and Bing representatives have admitted as much. But then, there’s nothing new here.

So here’s the game I’m about to play.

Post 6 – The Google Ranking Project Continues…

November 22, 2011 by Joseph 141 Comments

Time for an update on this work.

Here are the previous posts in this “collection” should you wish to catch up on them…

Post 1: http://www.josepharchibald.com/rank-new-site-google-weeks-very-competitive-niche
Post 2: http://www.josepharchibald.com/rank-website-weeks-google-competitive-niche-post-2
Post 3: http://www.josepharchibald.com/update-on-the-new-project-ranking-high-in-google-with-fast-backlinking
Post 4: http://www.josepharchibald.com/update-rank-high-and-fast-in-google-in-a-competitive-niche-post-4
Post 5: http://www.josepharchibald.com/post-5-fast-google-rankings-project

Okay, so where are we at in terms of what I have been doing over the past week since the previous update and where are the rankings now, erm – ranking?

Am I happy with progress or is it boring me to tears?

Fairly happy is the answer to that.

First off – the site is still in Google’s indexing system and its not been dumped in the rankings either, which I guess you could say is perhaps the main thing, considering its pretty much fast and furious backlinking all the way. I’ve been backlinking for the past 3 weeks now, and the rise up for each of my kwds has been fairly constant with one exception – the main kwd phrase.

Now let’s be fair, this kwd phrase has a whopping 450k global search volume, so no matter what I do, I can’t expect to be Google ranking in the top ten within a matter of weeks. Furthermore, I changed over a couple of my previous kwds to something else. That’s not to say I’ll forget about the previous kwds – the 2 that were rising up nicely. I will not, but I’ve changed my focus somewhat. Now I’m working on the newbie kwd which I started backlinking to about 6 days ago, and the main kwd, which as mentioned, I began working on just over 3 weeks ago. The site itself is less than 4 weeks of age.

In fact, this other kwd I’m now working on currently has one large glossy clickable image and two sentences of sales speel, and nothing more than that. Where is it ranking, if it is? You may be surprised by this…