Social media has all the attention today. The number of users is phenomenal and the growth rate is what we all hope for in our businesses. Check out the Facebook growth rate. If Facebook were a country, it would now have the 4th largest population in the world.
@techcrunch reported yesterday that MSN's new search engine Bing is incorporating Twitter posts into the search results.
With social media becoming such a large part of our lives, doing a search for someone is becoming increasingly easier. Now if I want to find someone I just have to search 'name and twitter', or 'name facebook' and if that person has an account, guess what? I've found them.
I did a Bing search and a Google search for 'Jim Adams twitter'. Much to my surprise, the @bing search gave me more social results than Google. I actually preferred the Bing results. It appears after several years of playing third fiddle in the search space, Bing is onto something that will make our lives better. It looks like if you want to find social info, Bing is the place to go.
If this is an indication of what is to come, our Twitter and Facebook posts will have a strong influence in search. In order to maximize visibility in the search engines, we will need to write our posts and tweets with SEO in mind.
Jim Adams - CEO
New Homes Directory.com
www.JimAdams.me
