Subject: Is Social Sharing the No. 1 Ranking Strategy? List of WordPress Plugins Just in Case

The Writers World
July 21, 2015 / 072115
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Is Social Sharing the No. 1 Ranking Strategy? List of WordPress Plugins Just in Case

By Karen Cioffi

What’s the number 1 online marketing strategy today?

It’s social media sharing.

Uh, well, maybe . . . most probably.

Rumors and murmurings are filtering through the internet world insinuating that ‘sharing’ is now more powerful than backlinks. I did some research as to whether this is true or not, but couldn’t find any concrete evidence.

But, if it’s not true yet, it probably will be the most powerful ranking factor soon. And, the search engines definitely take your social engagement into account when ranking your website.

Marketers are even using social networks to by-pass Google’s search ranking. And, you really can’t blame them; Google is changing its algorithms too fast to keep up with. If you don’t hit the content and website mark on ‘all’ counts, you lose search ranking – you lose authority.

This is huge.

So, social media marketing is a critical element to ranking and authority.

To make the most of social sharing, you need Share Buttons on all your blog posts.

WP Chronicles has a great post listing 30 of the best WordPress social sharing buttons. It covers general sharing buttons (lists multiple social networks) and specific to networks buttons, such as Twitter.

The first five on the general list are:

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