If you own a website,  or are involved in search engine optimisation, you will understand the  importance of your sites positioning in the search engine rankings.  Getting your website on the first page of Google’s search results can drive an influx of new customers, build brand awareness and even attract advertisers willing to pay for their ads to appear on your site

Unfortunately, there is much more to achieving high rankings  Google than just optimising your website for your target keywords and all the other elements required to position your website. Your Brand’s Social media footprint can now  hinder or assist it’s search results positioning.

We came across a great infographic  that  Austin based SEO company TastyPlacement have  put together to illustrate the results of a test they undertook to see if  social signals from Google+, Facebook and Twitter really do have any affect on the  search results.

As part of the test TastyPlacement created six websites based in six similarly-sized US cities. They let them settle in the index for ten months, and then began testing with the major social networks, Facebook, Twitter & Google+ for each site, focusing on the following social signals for each site 1-5:

• Number of Twitter followers
• Number of Tweets and retweets
• Number of both Facebook shares and likes
• Number of followers to each of the site’s Google+ business page
• Number of Google +1 votes to each sites homepage

The sixth site in the test was not promoted at all and used as  a control.

They promoted each of the five websites using the chosen social network for that month’s promotion, and then measured and recorded how each site’s search ranking moved for a set of keywords that was determined at the outset of the test.

So did social media signals have any influence on the search results?

They certainly did and the results were eye opening to say the least!

Overall, the individual site’s ranking changes  ranged from a fall of 1.22%  up to a whopping  rise of 14.63%  This experiment clearly shows that the  social media footprint your website has does indeed affect your site positioning in the search results.

Unsurprisingly or not depending which side of the conspiracy theory fence you sit on as to whether Google does indeed favour it’s own properties in the search results. It was  Google’s own social network Google+ that  yielded the best results by a significant margin. The website in the testing that was linked to a dedicated Google+ business page saw a full 14.63% rise in its search position, while the website that had a Google+ +1 button rose 9.44%

Sadly, the same impressive results were not mirrored for Twitter or Facebook. Targeting  Twitter tweets & retweets only got the website a 2.88% rise in Google’s search results, and adding an additional 1,000  Twitter followers actually caused one of the site’s position to fall by 1.22% . Facebook promotion resulted in a rise of 6.9% with 70 Facebook shares and  50 likes to the sites linked Facebook page.

Do social media signals impact website rankings? [ Infographic ]

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The Branderbull team have pulled together a collection of Logo Designs. Some of them are really clever, some are truely great, some are quirky and some have a “hidden meanings or symbols” contained within them that you might have missed, even if those logos are familiar brand names logos that you have seen many times before.. read on .. and discover what’s been hidden.

These logotypes were cleverly envisioned by various talented logo designers. Enjoy!

Black Cat

A seemingly simple logo but look again at it carefully and you will realise that the two letter “C”s are also cat’s eyes

Hersheys Kisses

In the Hersheys Kisses logo there is hidden Hershey’s chocolate kiss filling the space between the ‘K’ and the ‘I’.

Elefont

Elefont is another assumed simple logo but its got a hidden design element. Look closer .. find the hidden trunk in the lowercase letter e.

Museum of London

The Museum of London logo may just look like another modern logo design but it actually represents the geographic area of london as it as grew over time.

Portrait Photos

A simple camera Icon? look again There’s a man’s silhouette inside the camera.

Fedex

The FedEx logo, at first glance appears simple and straightforward. However, if you look at the white space between the “E” and “x” you can see a right-facing arrow. This “hidden” arrow was intended to be a subliminal message to convey speed and precision

Goodwill

The iconic smiling face of the Goodwill Logo is in fact the ‘G’ in Goodwill zoomed in an cropped slightly.

Yoga Australia

Another Hidden design element Logo. If you look closely, you can see that the woman in the logo design is forming a pose that forms the Australian continent.

Blade

Well hidden in the negative space Take a closer look and you will find a hidden knife integrated in the letter A

Amazon

The yellow arrow on the amazon logo is more than just a decorative swoosh. The logo was designed to illustrate the message that it sells everything from A to Z (the arrow connects the two letters) and also represents the smile that customers would experience by shopping on the Amazon.com

Facebook places

Facebook places Logo Hidden 4square?

Facebook’s geolocational product offering. Which was launched in direct competition with the leader in that area Foursquare. Take another look at Facebook Places logo you will notice there is a “4 in a square” a coincidence or a dig at Foursquare? You decide!

Mister Cuts Barber Shop

A clever creative Logo The scissors are transformed to look like a face with glasses and moustache

Night Golf

Simple yet clever Logo. The lit crescent Moon is a golf ball. Not only does the round shape of the golf ball reflect that of the moon, the little indents look like moon craters! the logo is an awesome visual smile we love it!

Tour De France

The Tour de France logo actually contains the hidden image of a cyclist which can be seen in the logo through the letters “O” “U” and ‘R’ combined with the orange circle representing the front wheel

Bipolar

The Logo depicts ambiguous emotions.

Bee

A swarm of bees forming a “B”.

Iron Duck Clothing

Cleverly crafted Logo with the hanger shaped to resemble a duck

Child of the Kingg

The logo is a good example of utilising negative space for hidden elements, a child’s image is integrated in the painted hand print.

Treacy Shoes

The T and S letters here join to form the shape of a shoe in the negative space that the two letters create. Notice here that the choice of font was critical to create this form.

Eighty 20

The eighty20 logo is a bit of a geeky one to figure out the hidden meaning behind, the two lines of squares represent a binary sequence with the blue squares being 1′s and the grey squares being 0′s. Which makes 1010000 which represents eighty and 0010100 which represents 20. Clever!

NBC

NBC logo has a hidden peacock above the text which is looking to the right, this represents the companies motto to look forward and not back. The peacock has 6 different tail feathers, referring to the six divisions at the time that this logo was created.

Toblerone

Toblerone chocolate originates from Bern in Switzerland, which is known for it’s high mountains. Bern is also called “The City Of Bears”. Look and find the hidden bear silhouette in the mountain illustration.

Royal Theater

The stage curtains pull back to reveal a hidden crown within the logo.

Guild of Food Writers

Love the simplicity of incorporating a hidden spoon into the pen nib.

Pause

This logo was created for Pause Fitness world, and the letter “u” has been designed to look like a pause symbol.

KingFish

On closer examination you can see hidden fish contained within the crown

London Symphony Orchestra (LSO)

This clever logo not only spells out ‘LSO’ in a single flowing line creating the three initials L.S.O in air but also looks like a conductor leading the orchestra with the ‘L’ and ‘O’ letters resembling his arms and conducting baton.

Handy Dog

The logo is comprised of Dog’s silhouette made with a hand.

Bronx Zoo

Another ‘negative space’ logo gem is the Bronx Zoo logo, where New York’s iconic skyline of skyscraper buildings can be found hidden between the legs of the giraffes

Impotence

The Letter i has got a problem standing to attention

Baskin Robins

Baskin Robbins offers 31 flavorous of ice-cream. The number 31 is hidden in the logo within the letters of B and R.

Lion Bird

Is it a Lion? is it a Bird? It’s Both If you stare straight at the bird’s feet for a second, a stunningly clear lion’s face emerges. Awesome Design!

Snooty Peacock

Snooty Peacock jewellery store Logo. Everyone loves a Snooty Peacock, we have one that turns up about once a week and struts his stuff outside around the office building He’s big, bold, extremely noisy and very proud of himself. Notice the hidden peacock in the face of the Logo.

Human

It’s clear to see the seed of inspiration in this clever design!

IBM (Eye Bee M)

Paul Rand (who designed the original iconic IBM logo way back in 1972) designed this ‘eye bee M’ logo in 1981. Wikipedia cites that it was Used in-house by IBM for a conference/event.

CatchMe

Falling man and hand caught together.

Codefish

The fish is formed of various computer code symbols

Circus of Magazines

The Circus Magazines logo pages fanning out to form a circus tent

Wineforest

At first glance it just appears to be trees but If you look more carefully, you will see 3 hidden bottles of wine.

Shark Tours

Great Use of the negative space the boats hull appears as a sharks fin

Killed productions

Simple But effective the letter “i” is lying as if it was killed

Happy Quote

The Quotation Mark resembles the side view of a happy face.

Coffee Night

There’s a moon shape that has been created in the foam inside the coffee cup.

Viao

At first all you see is the modern typography, but there is actually a hidden meaning behind Sony’s VAIO logo. The first two letters represent an analog signal the sinusoidal (sine) wave and the last two are the binary 1 and 0 of the digital world.

Shocked

The expression on the socket says it all!

F1 (Formula 1 Logo)

We’ve all see the F1 logo countless times but had you noticed The Formula 1 logo has a hidden number 1 between the letter F and the speed lines?

Horror Films

Another Simple yet expressive logo that clearly conveys the brand

The Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium

On either side of the tree, the faces of a gorilla and lion appear in the negative white space. There is also a pair of leaping fish hidden in the base of the tree

Bridges Pub & Eatery

The Bridge is made up of cutlery

Tostitos

The two letter “T’s” in this logo form two hidden people, as they dip a tortilla chip into the bowl of salsa in the letter‘I’.

Royal Clothes

Two t-shirts merge to subtly form a crown out of the background.

Dolphin House

Another great negative space logo. There’s a dolphin’s fin cut out of the square.

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