Matt Cutts on Twitter & Facebook social links as ranking factors. Here he confirms that Google looks at social signals as a ranking factor, but that those signals are weak and may only apply to “Real Time” results for now. [...]
Google toyed with some experimental real-time display in standard search over the past six months – but have now given real-time search a home page. Here’s a screen shot.They appear to have made it incredibly powerful and flexible, with timeline, [...]
Bookmark or Subscribe With a Single Button Social Media Optimization (SMO) is the new buzzword when it comes to getting links from sites like Digg, Del.icio.us, Technorati, and Flickr. There is a lot of talk on SEO blogs and in [...]