Tasty Placement, a search engine optimization and digital design company, attempted to solve the question “Can social media activity boost organic search ranking?” with an experiment. This infographic is a result of that experiment and shows very interesting results. Although maybe not the most perfect experiment, it appears the answer is “Yes”.
Read more about this infographic from the great blog post by Mind Jumpers.
Summary, in order from least effective on SEO to most effective:
- 100 Google+ Followers yielded a 14.63 rise in search engine ranking position.
- 300 Google+ Votes yielded a 9.44 rise in search engine ranking position.
- 60 Facebook Shares & 50 resulting “Likes” yielded a 6.9 rise in search engine ranking position.
- 50 Tweets yielded a 2.88 rise in search engine ranking position.
- 1,000 Twitter followers yielded a 1.22 fall in search engine ranking position.
