The Power of Social Media in 2024 | Insights from James Dooley & Karl Hudson
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Show Notes
James Dooley sits down with Karl Hudson to dig into how social media virality and behavioural signals can supercharge your SEO. James Dooley asks Karl Hudson whether traffic from platforms like Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Google Ads really helps rankings, and Karl Hudson explains why diversified traffic and branded searches are so powerful for money sites. They dive into how Signal Boy leverages paid ads and mass social campaigns (Reddit, hashtags, Facebook groups, etc.) to drive real users to your pages, boosting engagement, click-through rate, and indexation. Together, James Dooley and Karl Hudson walk through using Signal Boy as tier-two support for citations, guest posts, niche edits, and parasite SEO, and how pairing social signals with strong backlinks helps justify links in Google’s eyes. They also touch on using these behavioural signals to solve keyword cannibalisation issues and why serious SEOs should treat traffic and engagement as a core part of their off-page strategy going forward.