[halo18]

"Search engine rankings are influenced mostly by (social media) backlinks."

Hilarious.

Also - cramming a keyword you want into a title tag that doesn't fit the content is shitty SEO. There's a difference between that, and doing it well.

[xpose2000]

Completely agree with you. If this post had a downvote button I would surely use it. Very very bad advice in his post that is just flat out wrong.

[regal]

Despite dispensing SEO advice so freely, the site's current SEM Rush daily traffic is 0 visitors / day. And the author's been blogging on this site for over 3 years; it's not a new site.

[stritar]

http://www.searchprosystems.com/social-media%E2%80%99s-impac...

[stritar]

I once wrote a post about Apple having more cash than Slovenia's GDP. Without much optimization, no strong backlinks, but with a lot of social virality - the post was on the first page for Google "Apple Slovenia" for at least a year.

[stritar]

Currently, if I search Google for "writing blog post titles SEO", this specific post is on the first page. I think this proves social media links matter a lot.

[mkr-hn]

Any number of factors could cause that. It's not on the first page for me. "A followed B, so B must have caused A" is how most miracle cure, weight loss, marketing, and money making products are born. Most are bogus or fail in the long term.