Do onpage likes and shares affect Google ranking?
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Hi All,
I know that social bookmarks are considered to be a good thing when pointing to a specific page. Is that the same to simple facebook "Likes" and tweets?
By Likes I mean on page and not on Facebook fan page.
Thanks
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Hello Noamflint,
Getting the "likes" seems to be not as important as getting "shares". Having shares over likes correlates with higher rankings in the top 30 results.
I believe that having more on-page likes or tweets could motivate a person to like/tweet/share the content. Visually seeing that a page has hundreds or thousands of people liking an piece of content usually I am a bit more interested in reading more.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/facebook-twitters-influence-google-search-rankings
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Likes, not so much. However there does seem to be a correlation between FB Shares and rankings.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/does-google-use-facebook-shares-to-influence-search-rankings
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