Social media such as social networking sites and news sites can provide for viral marketing. Viral marketing has proven to be powerful if the content of a site is appealing.

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Social media such as social networking sites and news sites can provide for viral marketing. Viral marketing has proven to be powerful if the content of a site is appealing.

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Can you explain how Viral marketing has proven to be powerful in your own expereince?

Social Media Plays an important role in SEO to increase awareness of brand/site and a source of referal traffic.

According to ranking factor social media activities has became more important in SEO.

Social media plays an important role in seo as majority of people can be found on social media platforms like facebook, twitter etc. and it is easy to promote our business online into this site.

Social media doesn't play an important role in search engine ranking, especially Likes, Tweets etc. However, you can gain positions from links, such as a top ranking listing in Google for your company name with a Facebook URL.
However, obviously Social Media plays an extremely important role for creating/maintaining traffic. Inclusion is necessary for success.

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