You must constantly post on these networks to remain influential. Expect to see your score drop if you cut back on social media posting. In the last few weeks I have cut back on travel, and thus decreased my FourSquare check-ins, since breaking my arm. I have also been working late on a project for work which has reduced my postings to Google+, Twitter, and Facebook. Put them together and my Klout score has declined.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year they announced that searches on Bing influence your Klout score<\/a>. Klout added this feature because they recognized that there are people in the world that have vast importance but do not actively engage in social media. With the new Klout-verified Snapshots feature you can manage how you appear in Bing search results.<\/a><\/p>\n My results in Bing after I signed up for a Klout-verified Snapshop.<\/p><\/div>\n When Bing recognizes your name in search results over on the right they will display a “See results for” section. This section displays your name as a link along with your LinkedIn profile image and current position. Clicking on this link will direct users to a new search that is mostly focused on your Klout account. The right hand section displays the following:<\/p>\n Those are the only definitive statements from Klout about how Klout-verified Snapshots work. Here are some of my observations:<\/p>\n The first bullet point is the most strange to me. Bing has rewritten the description for the Brand Builder Websites home page. This is what they display.<\/p>\n A leading w ebsite<\/strong> design and development company<\/strong> in Rochester NY providing the most useful and simple tools for effectively managing your website<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n That is not a botched copy and paste job just now. They did insert a space between the ‘w’ and ‘e’ in ‘website’. I don’t know where that description came from. It’s not one that I remember us ever using. Especially not on the home page. It’s not the description for any page on our site. I do appreciate that Bing feels that we have the most useful and simple tools<\/em> for effectively managing your website. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n Here’s the current description for the home page:<\/p>\n Learn how Brand Builder Websites provides small business websites in Rochester, NY access to our custom web design, CMS software, and mobile website solutions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n That description explains who we are and what we offer. It does not talk about web development (which of course we offer<\/a>). Normal search results receive that description. This is something to look at once you have a Klout-verified Snapshot.<\/p>\n The last bullet point is very strange. When MySpace re-launched I activated my account to check it out. I have not posted there in years and yet it’s ranked higher than my active Google+ profile? I think there is some bias in the search results.<\/p>\n I recommend you sign up for your Klout-verified Snapshot<\/a>. It’s easy to do and lets you to influence search results. You’ll present users with a better experience. Shouldn’t that always be your goal?<\/p>\n This post was originally published as Klout-verified Snapshots on Bing<\/a> for Brand Builder Websites<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Klout-verified Snapshot lets you influence the way you appear in Bing search results. Snapshots add social media info to results on Bing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,53,30],"tags":[55,137,68,29,178],"class_list":["post-1976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informative","category-search-engine-optimization","category-social-media","tag-bing","tag-instagram","tag-klout","tag-linkedin","tag-twiter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1980,"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions\/1980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What does a Klout-verified Snapshot gain you?<\/h2>\n
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