nananananana. shalalala. badabim badabum…
wtf? hehe. Right :D Just thought I might get your attention more easily that way ;-) Almost everybody is talking about SEO & Social Media, Social Search and Twitter Lists. (Actually so did I, at the ambuzzador blog – in German: ‘Social Search – ein Schritt vorwärts‘). But most people simply explain what’s it about, and not what they are expacting to happen. So that’s what I try now. Let’s have a quick thought about probable future changes.
As already mentioned, lots of people kept talking about it.. so just a brief overview from my site. Social Search: Google realesed the Social Search feature about a week ago. Only for users of google.com and only under “beta”. That means that you need to enable it in the ‘Experimental Lab‘ section. If you wanna know how and why, just have a quick look at this videos. If you’ve already seen them, feel free to skip to the next paragraph :)
Alright. Now we know what’s it about. Let’s keep that in mind. And let’s keep in mind that Google announced a deal with Twitter (Bing already had one!). In your minds? Alright. Let’s move on.
A few days ago, Twitter released it’s List feature. Now you can add people on Twitter to lists you define. For example: You create a list called “SEO” and add the user @sayfun and others you follow to this list. Other followers are able to see your (public) lists and see which SEOs you follow.
So that’s cool, right? That’s gonna add more value to Twitter…you get listed and therefore be found way more easy (you even can search google for twitter lists). A lot of people already think about substituting followfriday with followlistfriday (I don’t think so since I am a fan of REASONS! If you recommend someone at followfriday, please tell me WHY – otherwise I will ignore it. Do you jump from the next bridge just because I tell you to? right..). Obviously there’s one negative thing left – like on followfriday – all those buddies will recommend and list each other over and over…but that’s the way it is – we all have the chance to ignore them…
So back to business. Where will it take us?
- Social Media will become more important. Even in Search Engines. Finally!
- It’s about connections Baby – and connections of connections of connections…
- SEOs will head more into Social Media
- rule the SERPs! – it’s not about being on number 1 in Google – it’s about dominating the first page. It’s about owning the top 10!
So. What do you think? You’re d’accord with this? Or is Social Search just…well..another fancy feature but not interesting at all?
