Revolutionary study: We prove that tweets do affect rankings

In the biggest study of its kind, we have found that there is strong correlation between the amount of tweets about a URL, and its Google ranking. Key Stats Study shows that URLs receive a significant boost in Google rankings when they are shared on Twitter The effects of this boost seem to level out

Source: http://www.branded3.com/tweets-vs-rankings

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