How does Splitting up social media presence affect SEO?
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the situation is that we manage a dealership's web maintenance to improve SEO and SERPS rank do we need to have individual social media accounts, Google business pages, twitter, youtube, foursquare, Instagram, dealer rater, cars.com accounts, etc, for each brand, even if they are at the same physical address?
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