Social Media and SEO Ranking Factors

I observed traffic and rankings to my personal SEO blog after penguin 3.0 update I have got extreme changes. 

Here are the techniques I have applied in 2014 to my BlogSpot blog.

1. Monthly updating blog posts
2.   Content optimization (internal linking for long tail keywords)
3. Sharing post on social media sites Google plus, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Stumbleupon, Delicious and Linkedin.

     Suggestions to get good traffic and ranking to your website in search results.

 

On Page Checklist & Techniques

1. Add your website in Google webmaster tools and register Google analytics
2. Proper redirects (Make sure your website URL’s everything with www)
3. Update XML Sitemaps for Images and videos.
4. Update robots.txt
5. Write Meta tags for all pages (Title and description only)
6. Write H1 and ALT tags
7. Put schema code for your website official logo.
8. Update internal linking to your unique and quality content
9. Check and fix broken links
10. Create custom 404 pages

Google Panda 4.0 Algorithm Update

Google’s Matt Cutts declared on Twitter the release of Google Panda 4.0 Update. Google's Panda update is meant to prevent sites with poor quality content from operating their way into Google’s search results. Panda 4.0 should be a significant update to the particular formula versus simply an information refresh.

Meaning, Google has created changes to however Panda identifies sites and has released a replacement version of the formula .

Google Panda 4.0 Algorithm Update

Google Panda 4.0 update affects different languages to different degrees. In English for instance, the impact is ~7.5% of queries that area unit affected to a degree that a every day user may notice. 

The Panda rule, that was designed to help boost great-quality content sites whereas pushing down low-quality content sites within the search results, has constantly targeted low-quality content sites so as to produce searchers with the most effective search results.