Social media is usually overlooked by SEO professionals. However, it is possible to get your site to rank higher in search results thanks to your activity on social media. Search engines are always looking for innovative ways to index and rank websites and it seems that social media is now taken into consideration. An SEO experiment was conducted to determine how social signs impact rankings. A website that gained a hundred of followers on Google + saw its ranking increase by a little over 14%. Receiving 300 Google + votes caused a site's ranking to increase by almost 10%.