Social Signals Increasingly Important to Search Marketers

84% of search marketers say social signals such as likes, tweets, and Google +1s will be either more important (53%) or much more important (31%) to their SEO this year as compared to 2011, according to [download page] a BrightEdge survey released in January 2012. The remaining 16% say they will pay the same attention to these signals this year, meaning that that none of the search marketers surveyed believe these social signals will decrease in importance for them this year.
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