Thanks for the answers and tip. Since I use the Posterous platform for my main site I think I’m going to post there without autoposting at that point and then autopost the post to my other social media assets after a while. Would 24 hours be long enough to wait? What do you think of this idea?

Thanks,

Doug

I think that there is a lot of confusion in the search engine marketing community as a whole concerning how much importance social media plays in optimization.

Auto-posting is something that I actually am more concerned with when it comes to Facebook. I think that those kinds of posts don’t always do as well there.

But I think that Google is becoming more and more comfortable with content residing in multiple places. So I don’t think that there is any need to be overly concerned with your search engine rankings when it comes to auto-posting.

The biggest concern that you will have is determining which site will be the dominant site for the content that you auto-posted. Google tries to look at the age of the page to determine what site had the original content. When you auto-post the age of all the sites is identical. So then Google is left completely up to making the decision for you.

I have been doing a lot of auto-posting experimentation recently as well. I have decided to nofollow my Posterous blogs and Tumblr blogs. That way when I post something to them Google won’t index those. Instead they will index my main blog.

Thanks so much for writing and talk with you soon.
Sage

Thanks,

Doug