I saw this great article on forbes.com, here is a link to it: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jaysondemers/2013/05/23/the-3-pillars-of-seo-in-2013-content-links-and-social-media/ Actually there is nothing new on the horizon. Lately Social Media has been so important for Google and is of course very valuable now in 2013. I personally have been using social media for SEO purposes since 2009 and I am always pleased with the results. My top 5 Social Media websites are: 1. Facebook 2. StumbleUpon 3. Twitter 4. Tumblr 5. Pinterest Having a well developed account in all of the above mentioned social networks speaks a lot for good SEO and your websites will be well treated by Google search engine. What can we say about content. I actually can say it all with one sentence: "Content is KING." And it really is. This is the most important thing on a website and this is what is first seend by Google. It was years ago when websites were able to climb to page 1 with just 2 or 3 articles per month. No more from this stuff. If you want your website developed and up to date content is what drives it to the top. Link building is if course the other feature that you can't just pass by. You need good, stable and quality backlinks in order to succeed. Quality links come with the time but you have to search for them and remember that links from relevant websites and niches to yours are most valuable and help most for the SEO.
Your top 5 social networking sites, yet you don't have Google+? G+ is pretty the only dominate force for social networking SEO right now, I can share a link on G+ and it'll be indexed in minutes, +1s & Reviews directly contribute to G+ Local SERPs, as well as a heap of other factors. Link building is still as prevalent, if not more so than ever but make sure you're doing it in the right way. Tiered link building is where it's at right now (imho) and when it comes to content, I totally agree that content is really king. Produce high quality content and you'll see money come pouring in (with a flavour of traffic generation, audience/community participation and SEO added into the mix).
I totally agree with you.. Kudos to your post sir. I have been doing SEO for 3 years now and what makes me bring traffic is finding relevant niches and building links into a competitor website through Analytics. Juicy content is one of the mot powerful too to obtain success.. Thanx for sharing man..
G+ is not in my top 5, neither in my Top 10 or higher . I tried using it once but it was years ago and I didn't like it. What I didn't like is that it's not so "REAL" like Facebook or Twitter and as an addition I hate doing it all for Google . I prefer doing my things in other social networks and I am 100% sure Google will notice this.
Keep in mind that Google personalizes results and they will 'reward' you after you post to Google+ by making it appear as though your content ranks on the first page of a Google search, but in reality, if you log out (or use another browser), you'll see that your Google+ posts don't rank well at all. Maybe URLs posted there do get crawled quickly, but I don't think anything beats pingomatic for getting your content indexed the fastest.
In SEO content , link and scoial media always the pillars of SEO but it was a time people work on quantity not on quality. Now time has been changed if you want to increase ranking then beware about the quality and quantity as well.