--- title: "Social Media as a Ranking Factor" description: "For understanding How to use Social Media as a Local Ranking Factor, fist you must understand: What are the Local Rankings Local Keywords Types Local Competitio" canonical: "https://www.georanker.com/social-media-as-a-ranking-factor" last_modified: "2012-09-25T14:03:25" --- # Social Media as a Ranking Factor Published: 2012-09-25. Updated: 2012-09-25. Author: GeoRanker. > Historical article. Product names, prices, links and third-party behavior may have changed since publication. Use [current products](https://georanker.com/ai/index.md), [pricing](https://georanker.com/ai/pricing.md) and [documentation](https://docs.georanker.com/llms.txt) for current GeoRanker answers. For understanding How to use Social Media as a Local Ranking Factor, fist you must understand: - What are the Local Rankings - Local Keywords Types - Local Competition Level - Local SEO Factors In the next presentation you will see an interesting example of how a website from Australia, is ranking on google.co.uk – location Liverpool on the 8th position only because it is located in a city named Liverpool from Australia. This shows the huge interest of google for the local factors. [Canonical article]()