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Monday, December 2, 2013

How to Build Links to Your Social Profiles

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Most people, businesses, and brands want the information that appears first in search to be positive and, preferably, controlled by them. One way to dominate SERPs is by having your website, along with your top social profiles and pages, come up on the first page. Just like anything else that you want to rank well in search, you'll want to build links to those social profiles and pages.
Another great reason to build links to your social profiles – especially internal links from the social network itself – is to increase the authority of the profile or page.
There's no definitive answer on how social networks like Facebook choose to rank pages in Graph Search, or how Twitter chooses to rank profiles in their search. But one could assume that the number of mentions a profile or page gets, especially high authority ones, could have an impact on their rankings.

How to Build Links to Social Profiles:-

Now that you know a few reasons why, let's look at a few ways you can build links to your social profiles.

Website Links to Social Profiles

If you don't already, you should definitely link to your main social profiles from your website. There are tons of different ways to do it:
  • Simple text links in author bios on your blog.
  • Links using small social icons in the header, footer, or sidebar of your website.
  • Official follow, like, circle, and connect badges (not necessarily great from the link building aspect, but makes it easier for people to follow you).
Not only will these help increase your social following, they will create official links connecting your main online platform to your social networks.

Twitter Bio Links:-While they are nofollow links, one way to create backlinks from multiple personal profiles to one main company profile is to mention the company profile in other profile bios. One great example of this is HubSpot – many of their employees mention the main HubSpot Twitter handle in their bios.If you consider the authority of each Twitter user and number of followers they have combined, those could easily be considered some high authority backlinks to the HubSpot profile.

Want to make this work for you? Simply ask your employees who are active Twitter users to include your company's @username in their profile bio!

Facebook Page Links on Profiles:- Similar to linking a company's Twitter handle to employee's personal Twitter profiles, you can also link a company Facebook page to employee's personal Facebook profiles. Unlike Twitter profile links, these links are dofollow.

Cross-Promotion Between Profiles:- Another way to build some high authority links to your social sites is to do a little cross promotion.Google+, for example, asks you for your profile links on the about tab for your profile or page. Take advantage of these to create dofollow links to your social profiles and pages.Pinterest allows you to connect to Twitter and Facebook, thus adding a nofollow link to each on your Pinterest personal or business profile.

Link Research:-Just like you research backlinks to competitor’s websites, you can research links to their social profiles as well (or see what links you have to your own social profiles).The Instant Backlink Explorer from CognitiveSEO allows you simply enter a URL of a social profile and review the pertinent data about your (or your competitor's) social profile backlinks, such as link growth:

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