{"id":285,"date":"2013-02-15T00:32:44","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T00:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/?p=285"},"modified":"2013-02-15T00:38:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T00:38:43","slug":"why-social-media-is-critical-in-seo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/why-social-media-is-critical-in-seo\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Social Media is Critical in SEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skumatic.com\/images\/HdrLogo_3c9eed4d4197b4145c7b4c5d6f7284e0.png\" width=\"249\" height=\"61\" \/> Social commerce is in it&#8217;s formative stages and whilst we believe buying within Facebook may happen one day, it&#8217;s not here today in a big way which is why we built <a title=\"http:\/\/www.skumatic.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skumatic.com\" target=\"_blank\">SKUmatic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 6\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>A recent study by Forrester Research titled <em>\u201cThe Purchase Path of Online Buyers in 2012,\u201d<\/em> in September 2012 cites a selection of statistics supporting the influence of social media on user buying decisions:<\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 6\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>17% of users have bought something based on a friend\u2019s post about it using social media<\/li>\n<li>40% of online buyers think that social content created by friends about brands is \u201ca great way to discover sales and promotions\u201d<\/li>\n<li>48% of consumers think that posts created by others in their networks are \u201ca great way to discover new products, brands, trends, or retailers\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>View the Video demonstration and see over 50 of SKUmatic customers using our product catalog management software for Facebook at <a title=\"http:\/\/www.skumatic.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skumatic.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.skumatic.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social commerce is in it&#8217;s formative stages and whilst we believe buying within Facebook may happen one day, it&#8217;s not here today in a big way which is why we built SKUmatic. A recent study by Forrester Research titled \u201cThe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/why-social-media-is-critical-in-seo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3],"tags":[4,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}