Yet another Google Plus One question: Does it affect ranking for people that you are NOT connected to?
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Title pretty much explains it all. If lots of people plus one (the new verb of 2011?) a site, is that site deemed 'popular' and therefore will appear higher up the SERPS generally? Or does it only affect those with whom you are linked via Twitter/Facebook/Google+?
Or is it too early to tell yet?
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Would love to know the answer to this. My feeling is that the +1's do make a difference regardless of linkage of profiles.
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Darn. I'd love to know as well. I've been scouring the web and it seems like the consensus answer for social indicators as a search ranking factor is:
Facebook Shares: No causation but high correlation.
Twitter: Probable causation (anecdotal evidence only)
Google +1: Very little information. Though it seems likely that Google would use its own social indicator in general search. I hope SEOmoz does a study on this soon.
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Too early to tell. Google is rolling out to many massive changes for any reliable unit testing, IMHO.
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