Social Media
From growing your audience to advanced content promotion to building your brand, the importance of social media to digital marketing can't be overstated. Whether you've been in the game from the very beginning or are just starting to wonder how social media tools can apply to your own professional life, the resources on this page can help you reach the next level.
We've hand-picked some of our favorite pieces of content to get you started with learning about social media marketing. Once you’ve studied those, check out the most recent Moz Blog posts about social media below.
Social Media Competitor Analysis: The Complete Guide : A detailed breakdown of how to analyze your social media competitors for a better understanding of your consumers, and to help grow your brand.
How to Turn One Piece of Content into Multiple for SEO : A simple guide to scaling your content publishing output and providing value to your audience.
How Social Media Trends Can Influence Your SEO : Actionable steps for taking advantage of social media trends and building it into your brand’s digital marketing strategy.
Social Media, Influencer Marketing, and SEO : In our free SEO Learning Center, we'll show you how social media, influencer marketing, and PR play a role in search engine optimization.
Creating a Social Media Strategy : The key to success is to have a plan. In this video, you’ll learn how to lay the foundation of all your future social media work.
Introducing New Followerwonk Engagement Metrics for Twitter
The holidays came early for the Moz community. We're excited to announce some cool new metrics to Followerwonk, including Engagement (composed of Retweet and @Contact rates) and Tweets with URLs!
Justin Bieber Gets 32K Retweets Per Tweet - Can You Beat That?
Oh, how sacred those retweets are! Peter Bray unveils the data behind how the ultimate Twitter king gets over 32K retweets per tweet, and puts perspective on how you, too, might be able to beat the Biebs on Twitter.
7 Key Ways to Optimize Facebook Fan Page SEO (along with Mozinar Q&A)
The "Social Media for the SEO Mind" Mozinar was a great way to learn about SEO-optimization for social engagement on websites and fan pages. In today's post, Nathan Latka answers your Q&A questions and gives a few more amazing tips on optimizing your Facebook fan page for SEO.
13 Ideas for Interesting, Engaging, and Just Plain Awesome Tweets for Business
Using Twitter for business can be a lot of fun – but this doesn’t mean it’s always easy. Figuring out what to Tweet can be mind boggling, and it can be easy to fall into the trap of just Retweeting what other people are saying. Thankfully, if you think before you Tweet, it doesn’t have to be this way.
When Is My Tweet's Prime of Life? (A brief statistical interlude.)
We use many tools to tailor our Twitter use, but how can we accurately measure the lifespan of a tweet? Peter Bray digs into the data and uses retweets (i.e. the currency of Twitter) to predict just how long your tweet's prime of life will be.Level Up Your SEO Skills With Our Free Training
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Your Guide to Social Signals for SEO
Social signals are paving the way for the future of search, but just how much influence might they have on the SERPs? To understand where we're going, it's time to look at how social signals are currently affecting rankings and take the necessary steps to improve them on your website.
10 Dead Simple Tips to Take Advantage of Google+ for SEO
It's no secret. When engineers built Google+, they constructed an SEO juggernaut to dominate search results above all other social platforms. Although true that Facebook and Twitter are essential to many marketing efforts, but both restrict Google from accessing much of their data. Here’s an experiment...
5 Facebook Marketing Resources You Didn't Know About
Facebook advertising is here to stay, and marketers are spending more time and money on their platform than ever before. Joanna Lord discusses five of Facebook's best-kept secret resources to help marketers get the most out of their Facebook experience.
Rock Your SEO with Structured Social Sharing - #MozCon Presentation
During my talk at MozCon 2012, attendees learned about the Structured Social Sharing Formula (SSSF): 10 steps to optimize and track social share snippets on Facebook, Google Plus, and Twitter. The formula includes use of microdata and best practices for controlling the snippet that displays on Facebook and Google+ as well as how to automatically tag URLs with...
New Data: The Correlations Between Social Sharing and Inbound Links
Over the past few years, the topics I've researched, written, and spoken about have evolved. One of the most common questions I'm still asked is about the relationship between social media sharing and SEO performance.