How to Use Social Media to Improve Your SEO

With the rise of social networking sites Google has started to take social sharing signals into account when ranking your website . On Twitter they look at how many tweets and retweets a URL has received and the authority of the accounts tweeting those links. For Facebook and Google plus they look at how many +1's and likes a URL receives and likewise for the other sites like Pinterest and LinkedIn. The infographic below from Quicksprout shows you how getting your website shared more on social media can improve your SEO and place you higher on Google.

How To Go From Zero To 10,000 Website Visitors Per Month

So you've got yourself a new website , you've spent ages perfecting it, now you just need to get some bums on seats. The infographic below from Who Is Hosting This gives you a load of hints and tips you can use to monitor and increase your web traffic .

A Beginner's Guide to Google Authorship and Author Rank

Google's SEO guidelines are clear: Create great content that people will naturally want to share and link to. Blogging is one of the most widely used form of creating content and Authorship is Google's way of recognising and rewarding writers and blog owners for the content they create. The infographic below from Internet Marketing Inc gives you an introduction to Google Authorship, the advantages it offers and some tips on how to make the most of it.

SEO Tips, Help & Advice

Q: 12 Steps to Create the Perfectly Optimised Webpage

We all want to get to the top of Google - its pretty obvious that the higher you are the more traffic you'll receive and more leads and sales you'll generate. But how exactly do you achieve this? The infographic below from Backlinko gives you 12 ways to optimise your webpages and fire yourself up the Google search engine rankings .

Q: 3 Google Updates that Determine the Success of Your Website

Google has released 3 major updates in the past few years: Panda, Penguin and Hummingbird. Sounds like they're running a zoo over there doesn't it? Well that's the theme of this handy infographic from Prestige Marketing . It gives you a brief overview of what each update is for and how it can affect the placing of your website in Google search.

Q: Generate 97% More Leads With This One Trick

Did you know companies with blogs generate 97% more leads? Well according to QuickSprout they do. It's one of the key messages from the infographic below which highlights how a content marketing strategy can improve your SEO and help more customers find you. Other key points include websites with blogs have 434% more indexed pages making it more likely for them to appear in Google searches and content rich sites generate 97% more inbound links. Take a look at the infographic for more stats:

Q: 6 Black Hat SEO Techniques That Are Killing Your Website

As business owners we all want to get to the top of Google right? We want to be the first company potential customers call when they are searching online. But at what cost? Google has released a series of updates over the past few years that has rendered certain SEO techniques not only useless, but they can get your site removed from Google completely. The infographic below from SEO.com gives you 6 black hat SEO tactics that could be killing your website.