Are Twitter and Facebook Links Any Good?
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By that I mean, the no-follow aspect of Twitter and Facebook. Links from Twitter and Facebook are treated the same as any other link. If it is a reputable link, then it will gain you some link juice. However, the issue comes where some profiles on social networks are not public. If your profile on Facebook is not public, and can not be crawled by the search engines, then definitely you are not getting any link juice from it.
However, if your profile is public and the search engines can crawl your profile, then your links can be used to assist in the backlink building for your site.
Here is a video produced by Google’s Matt Cutts (with a new hair cut) explaining Twitter, Facebook links as well as .edu and .gov backlinks.
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I enjoy considerable traffic from both my Twitter profile and my Facebook fan page. It’s a good point to bring up (making sure your profiles are crawlable).
Thanks Alec. I’ll look you up on Twitter and Facebook.
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By that I mean, the no-follow aspect of Twitter and Facebook. Links from Twitter and Facebook are treated the same as any other link. If it is a reputable link, then it will gain you some link juice….
This is a great video. I get a lot of traffic from twitter. I never thought if it was a DoFollow or not. Either way its a good way to get traffic to your site if you have a lot of loyal followers. As for Facebook, that is peronal and I do not sure my blogs on there. However, I am thinking about build a fan page on there, once my new site takes off.
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I’m working on building traffic from social media outlets such as Twitter and facebook. Traffic or not it is a good practice to have them for your website/business because they show up for when someone searches for your business. This helps crowd out the competition on the valuable real estate of the first page of SERPS and adds to the ways you can be found by your customers.
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Yeah, I agree with you on your comment about Facebook, its personal, I have a tendency to be more laid back there than on Twitter. However, I’m seeing my traffic pick up from Twitter as I target my followers more. Thanks for taking the time to comment element321!
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@Thomas: I’m finding that commenting on your followers blog posts and then retweeting those posts, are very helpful in gaining social media traffic. Facebook doesn’t bring in as much traffic as Twitter does, and that’s because my marketing focus is different on FB than on Twitter. Thanks for stopping by!!
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Facebook has more juice than twier which is no follow, but yahoo and msn might follow twitter.
I had not thought about twittering what I just commented on
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@designdelights: You’re right Twitter is no-follow; however, the traffic from Twitter is phenomenal, and that traffic is noticed by Google. Thanks for commenting, please come back again.
social networking sites becoming more and more popular among every one really great way to advertise you products and helpful in making healthy business relationships.
“If profile is public and the search engines can crawl your profile, then your links can be used to assist in the backlink building for your site.”
I agree on that statements since I have seen Twitter and Facebook links get indexed by Google in the top 20 rankings.
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Thanks for posting the video by Google’s Matt Cutts, it is very informative and helpful in explaining the different aspects to Twitter and Facebook links.
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