How Social Shares on One Page Affects Sitewide Authority
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If you have a great resource on your site that earns a lot of social shares, does that improve the authority of your entire site or just that single page in the eyes of Google?
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In my experience - a bit of the former and lots of the latter. i.e. the specific page generates strong authority signals and as a result the parent domain gets credit for some of that extra authority as well. How much? No idea how to measure and I suspect the amount will be different under different circumstances. (This assumes the page is actually on the primary domain and not a subdomain).
I think of it like links: a strong incoming link to an internal page is especially good for that page, but also contributes to the overall site's ranking signals as well.
I'd be very interested to hear what others think on this topic too!
Paul
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I don't think that social shares are worth very much.
However, if the content of those shares on the SM site includes your domain name or brand AND can be crawled by Google then there might be a tiny bit of value.
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