Do you use Social Profiles? (12 posts)

  • I LOVE social profiles! I love to fill out all the boxes on the form and build unique, keyword rich business descriptions. I think this is the best way to build high quality backlinks to your website!

    Right now my favorite social profile is About.me. It has a PR score of 8!

    Yummmm, love me that high PR linkage!!!!

  • Hi Everyone,

    @paulwilson Asked me what social profiles are… so here the scoop.

    For me a social profile is any place you can go on the internet and give information about your business in a profile format. Examples of social profiles… Facebook, LinkedIn, Yelp, YP.com, Google Places, SME, About.me etc. It sometimes amazes me that people/businesses, who want to be found, don’t fill out their profiles completely, don’t keyword them for their target market and don’t go back and claim them or verify them. IMHO they are missing sooo much wonderful linkage.

    Disclaimer… I’m a OCD form filler. Which has really worked for me in this case.

    Hope that explains it. :)

  • @amyhallbiz for me personally I’m terrible at filling out social profiles, for my clients I make sure to optimize them. 

    Thanks for the reminder of About.me as the links on the profile are do follow…gotta love that :)

  • Hi, just recently signed up for Google Plus, I reckon that’s going to be BIG!
    My all time favorite has to be Facebook! (I build facebook pages for clients, so guess I’m a little biased, lol) :-)

  • @jomartin you will find that facebook and G+ are VERY different beasts with very different audiences. The level of difference is decreasing as more “non-techie” folks get on to google plus but it still functions at a different level. Google plus is as much about how you see the web, literally, as it is about connecting. Facebook just cannot get there yet.

  • @amyhallbiz Social profiles I understand. What I really want to understand is how you use social profiles with your keywords? Are you utilizing them for anchored text backlinks? Or are you doing latent semantic indexing (lsi) with social profiles and then linking them back to your main site? I am curious as to what you feel is the most useful approach in using social profiles.

  • Also, would you just recommend Facebook, LinkedIn, Yelp, YP.com, Google Places, SME, About.me, or are there other social profiles you have found work well?

  • I think it is crucial to fill out the profile completely for any social site you are using.  If you don’t fill them out, you are losing a lot in terms of visibility – both from keywords and simply from people jumping off of your blank profile as soon as they see it.

    What is the point of having a social profile if you are not going to complete it?

    @paulwilson – the social profiles you use depend on your target market.  As an example, I don’t use Google Places because I a not a brick-n-mortar and don’t want people showing up at my front door.  However, Google Places is great for people with a local presence.

    So it is a matter of determining where your target market hangs out and where you want to be seen.

    Hope that helps.

  • @paulwilson As long as the description of the business, the keywords for the business and website is congruent then your social profile will be useful. Example… I’m currently doing social profiles for a landscape designer, all of her keywords are about landscape design, plants, patios, water features, xeriscape… in her social profile business description I talk about how she is a landscaper designer specializing in xeriscape landscape design in San Diego, uses drought tolerant plants, water conserving water features, etc. Her website is optimized for landscape designer, xeriscape san diego. landscape design, drought tolerant landscape etc. All three pieces of this optimization puzzle are congruent.

    Each social profile site has different rules about links and what type of links you can use. I just do a lot of testing to see what will work for each individual social profile.

    There are TONS of social profiles out there. I like to think that a social profile is like a mini website for my client. So I never want to use the same content on any sites or profiles. I also go back and claim/verify every single social profile. It’s an extra step and is time consuming. But it really pays off in the long run.

  • @amyhallbiz good thread, thanks for posting, Question: Just how many platforms are there for posting your social profile?

  • @deairby I don’t understand the question… could you say it a different way?

  • @glengorham thanks for your input and comments!! It’s always awesome to hear a point of view from others and makes me consider my own.
    Have an awesome day :-)


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