In Google’s guide to SEO, there is an interesting quote, that’s what is not recommended to do on social media web-sites:
involving your site in schemes where your content is artificially promoted to the top of these services.
Well, Google’s loosing their theory of what’s appreciated by the crowd should be genuine? Because there are now plenty of paid and exchange-based digg (just example!) voting programs, and they are getting smarter and smarter.
Since there are no faultless way to find out if the Page made it to big social media exposure by paying for it. Google is no longer value Social Media links? I think they have smarter approach to that.
I can only assume that if they see a Page that appears to be on every major social media website, and it has:
- Commercial matter of a Page
- Little links from major directories
- Small PageRank compared to other pages in the same category
- Social Media exposure (all at once or randomly over time)
- The domain was yet given major exposure @ The Internet (backlinks)
Then they slap those websites. So the best way to get most out of social media links – is to act smooth. Expose your Site/Page on different Social Media services with a time delay.
