[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"cms-page:\u002Fblog\u002Fsmx-london-social-seo-jeff-ferguson":3},{"date":4,"date_gmt":4,"content":5,"sticky":7,"format":8,"categories":9,"collections":12,"coauthors":17,"class_list":19,"acf":30,"head_links":500,"breadcrumbs":501,"reading_minutes":148,"category":509,"head":512},"2017-05-23T13:34:49",{"rendered":6},"\u003Cp>Jeff Ferguson has been working in search for over 20 years, and for the last 6 years has been running his own agency. 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Everyone was pretty peeved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3110\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fimages.impression.co.uk\u002F2021\u002F05\u002FY3jCHAuL-seo-and-social-media-smx-london-scaled.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=crop&h=1000&q=90&w=1892\" alt=\"seo and social media smx london\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In January 2014, Matt Cutts came out with a video that states that Google indexed social media sites like any other, but that social doesn’t influence rankings. The correlation comes from the fact that great content is great content, so it tends to move well on social as well as other channels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, in March 2017, Danny Sullivan asked if Google uses social signals. 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