Social Signals...I Need More
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Hi,
Having used the Open Site Explorer (page specific metrics) tool I've realized I'm lacking in the Social Signals area...I have only 1 tweet and ZERO for everything else (Facebook shares, Likes, Google +1 etc).
So I have 2 quesitons:
How can I get more social signals (is there a service I can use to do it)?
How long will the new social signals take to appear in the Open Site Explorer information?
I've just paid someone on Fiverr.com to share my website link on his Facebook account, to tweet it, and also to use PingFM...
Any other ideas would be GREAT - I can see this is a real weakness for my websites...
Thanks,
James
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Hi
As far as Facebook, make sure you have the Open Graph meta tags in place on your website. It not, any clicks of the like button on your website might not count as a "share".
-Dan
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Your social media sharing buttons are also Call to Action buttons. I have not seen your site, but could you try changing the location of these buttons and make them more obvious.
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Try to get good content on your site, that people will like to tweet etc. Also, you can implement share, like and tweet buttons etc. to make it easy for people to share the content of the website. You should also, if you have not done so yet, set up your own facebook page and twitter account.
I don't think it is a great idea to pay someone to tweet to their "50.000 real followers" or to share a message with their "140.00 fans", this is just the same as buying links - blackhat stuff that you should avoid.
Also, by creating good content, you will be able to get not only social shares, but also good backlinks.
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