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.

Define and Align: A Manageable Content and Social Media Marketing Process
Social Media

Define and Align: A Manageable Content and Social Media Marketing Process

When we get into the truth of how much time and effort goes into the actual work of raising a client's web visibility--that it’s an ongoing process that will require them to generate content and build relationships--we often see some reluctance. To combat that reluctance, we’ve put a lot of thought into how we conduct and explain our particular version of content marketing.
5 Tips for Managing Your Community on Google+
Social Media

5 Tips for Managing Your Community on Google+

The day Google+ opened up brand pages, I anxiously refreshed my Gmail inbox all day long until I finally got the email inviting me to create a company page. I knew that by creating the page under my personal account that I’d be the only one able to manage it for the near future. But I really didn’t care; I was just so giddy to get the page set up. Remember that feeling? I...
Going Viral on Pinterest: Driving  Big Traffic and Making Pinterest a Real Marketing Solution
Social Media

Going Viral on Pinterest: Driving Big Traffic and Making Pinterest a Real Marketing Solution

When I was first introduced to Digg in 2007 I didn’t leave the computer until I absorbed every piece of information that Kevin Rose made available to me. When I switched over to Reddit in 2008, I found the content even more enthralling and gave out upvotes until my fingers bled on nearly ever subreddit. A little over 2 months ago my girlfriend, Alaina was on her laptop on the couch tota...
Gamification Case Study - allkpop
Social Media

Gamification Case Study - allkpop

For Social Media Week, I wanted to write a case study on one of the hot trends in SEO and online marketing – gamification. Searches for ‘gamification’ have increased 250% since the beginning of 2011 (shown below). Gamification isn’t just a buzzword for the SEO industry, agencies like Badgeville and Bunchball are incorporating it into the online marketing strategies for many international companies and brands.
Set Up Your YouTube Channel for SEO Success
Social Media

Set Up Your YouTube Channel for SEO Success

As you have probably heard, web video is now massive and you need to be doing it otherwise your business is going to fail fail fail! OK, so that’s not really going to happen, but scare tactics aside there is great opportunity through integrating video content into your marketing plan.
Planning an Effective Social Media Strategy
Social Media

Planning an Effective Social Media Strategy

Social media is a mess. There’s Facebook which now has over 800 million registered users, Twitter with over 300 Million registered users, Google+ who has some insane growth potential, Tumblr who’s traffic has almost doubled in 2011 and who pulled in more than 17 million unique visitors (US) in November 2011, and so on. The list goes on and on. The internet is filled with so many different social outlets who seem to rise in fall every day. So, as a business, where should you invest your time and money?
Building The Implicit Social Graph
Social Media

Building The Implicit Social Graph

Google Plus is Google's latest attempt at building an explicit social graph that they control, but Google has been building out an implicit social graph for quite some time. This graph is still relatively naive compared to the maturity of the link graph, but search engines continue to develop this graph. Since it is already directly influencing rankings, and its value will increase, it&r...

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