Bay Area Inbound Marketing Blog

Several years ago, I received a list on Facebook called: “25 Random Things About Me” from 2 friends, Melisa Salcido and Janet Aram. I read the lists and the instructions said to write one about myself and pass it on.

Inbound links are quickly becoming a broken metric. At the same time, social media is quickly escalating as a ranking factor for search engines. While inbound links still matter and are a decent factor for judging the authority of a website or page, social media provides search engines with key data points that they have long been lacking.

Businessses with 501 to 1,000 Facebook Followers have 4 times as many leads and 22 times as much web traffic as businesses with 1 to 25 facebook followers according to Hubspot's 2011 report entitled: "Lead-Generation Lessons Learned from 4,000 Companies." Here are all the facts and statistics: