It’s well known in SEO circles that most links created through social media are “nofollow”—and therefore don’t help sites rank higher with search engines. Some SEO professionals believe there’s no SEO benefit to developing social-media profiles at all. Not so, counters Derek Edmond in a recent post at the Komarketing Blog. To search marketers like Edmond, “social-media strategies are much more than a method for securing direct links through submissions, posts, and updates.” Edmond offers five reasons to incorporate social-media...