Google Plus and Social SEO

Many factors contribute to a website reaching and maintaining high positions in search results for target terms.

These factors include user experience, site structure, alt tags on images, site maps, and more. Above all content is definitely still king. However, not all types of content can rule over the kingdom of SERPs.

The following are 10 tips for writing content that will help your website rank higher in search results:

1. Write for users, optimize for robots
2. Forget about keyword density and keyword stuffing
3. Integrate related keywords, synonyms, and grammatical variations into your content
4. Use Google’s free tools to find long-tail keyword variations that you can blend into your site copy
5. Focus on writing long, in-depth, quality content
6. Target high quality low competition long-tail keywords
7. Write content that answer’s common questions from prospects
8. Get your content noticed and shared on social media platforms
9. Strive to build your AuthorRank and develop your Google+ profile
10. Don’t forget about title tags and meta descriptions, they are the first thing people typically see in search results

Make sure your http://bit.ly/RichSnippet is Rendering Properly

An Impressive Display of HTML 5 and Infogaphics 

What's rather cool is when you scroll through to the end of this HTML 5 Infographic, it tells you how long you've been viewing the piece.

I must be a slow reader, it took me 1:03 to process this stellar submission

SEO Metrics that Matter 

An All-Star Cast of SEO Experts Weigh In What Matters + What Doesn't

See #2 Google and Twitter

• Tweets are counted but indexed slower
• Google+ posts are much more immediate

This is why I configured Friends+Me to sync up with

Twitter, LinedIn and Facebook to my content marketing system so my G+ posts will synd to these other top socials

Follow these 12 Steps to maximize your Content Marketing efforts

Emotion is More Powerful (converts better than) Logic

• Fear
• Love
• Belonging 
• Trendsetting
• Leadership

How to discover your emotional sweet spot

About.me platform let's you showcase your social presence and influence and expertise.

The Social Icons Connect and Showcase your Social Link Wheel and the Latest Posts pulls from WP.com property

If you use Bit.ly http://bit.ly/JNFvCita you can include the vCita lead generation routine to track the source and timing of the social engagments

Look at your last 50 posts then consult with one of these SEO Experts 

https://www.google.com/search?q=OnPage+Optimization+SEO for a better Onpage Optimization and superior SEO appeal

Is Semantic SEO the new Onpage Optimization SEO?

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Onpage+Optimization

Key factors Google considers to be indicators of high quality:

• Longer content
• Images and video
• Proper text formatting
• Correct spelling and grammar
• Outbound links to other high-quality sites
• Inbound links and social shares from other high-quality sources

A proper content strategy requires a significant amount of time and talent. But as a time-crunched business owner, you might not have enough bandwidth to regularly generate and oversee the content creation for your website. If that's the case consider hiring a director of content who can create and publish white papers, newsletters blog posts or e-books for you.

Make sure your http://bit.ly/RichSnippet renders with the content you create publish and syndicate to your top socials.

Authorship is link building!

When you write an article with authorship and link back to your post, it links back to your G+ profile. Results can be that you dominate the SERPs!

According to a recent Forbes article, it can take a mid-size company at least 32 hours a month to successfully manage one social media campaign. Where does this leave companies with several fading social profiles under their belt? 

As if we didn't know Negative SEO wasn't alive and well. The good news is social shares is your ticket to offset all this negative SEO crap going on!

Mechanics aside, having consisent branding color scheme and visuals on the top socials is well worth paying attention to the details of each of these socials so your visitors become accustomed to your look and feel and USP

Social Shares is the new SEO • You are the Brand so make sure your http://bit.ly/RichSnippet is set-up Right