Facebook & Twitter Content actually does affect SEO results!

According to Social Times, Marketing Times, and Search Engine Land, Google and Bing have both confirmed that links shared on both Twitter and Facebook do in fact affect search engine results. This has been a question that has not been definitely answered until now, and yet it still seems rather murky as to how the link sharing actually does affect the results. Google stated that it uses something called Author Authority to gage the SEO ranking of sites and Bing uses a similar metric called Social Authority. Both of these are based off of a Twitter user's "author quality".  The reason they can't use this same metric with Facebook is because they do not have acces to personal information on profile walls within Facebook.

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If you are anything like me and don't have too much talent in the "graphics" department there are a handful of websites that you can use to find freelance designers. 99designs is a great experience because it allows you to enter the description of the design you need along with your budget. Then it's time to sit back for a few days and allow designers to design and upload dozens if not hundreds of designs for you to view and choose from. It is an interactive experience where you can rate your favorite designs and give feedback to the designers so they can tweak them based on your preferences. Once you decide on the winner, the cash is given to the designer and the rights to the design is given to you. It is a nice deal for the designers because it is free to enter, and it is a great deal for you because it is efficient and fast! Check out 99designs then head over to BluReach for a custom CMS based website!