Comments on: The Value of Facebook and Twitter Links for Page Rank and SEO

By: Rob Lombardi

Rob Lombardi — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:55:27 +0000

I use bit.ly to create links that I place on Facebook and Twitter. Then bit.ly tracks the popularity of the link. So whether someone clicks on it from Facebook or Twitter, I can see exactly how many people clicked on it. If Google ties into bit.ly links, then there's the missing link (no pun intended).

By: human3rror

human3rror — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:05:36 +0000

Tom,

I was going to go into detail about mine but I thought not. I have nearly the exact same \"strategy\" with facebook: i keep it closed because I give the world a big \"noooooooooooooooo\" when it comes to my privacy. I used to have a lot of pictures in there but i killed all of those, and i'm not interested in boosting my page rank from facebook since I really don't use it much.

word. you are crazy cool.

By: bman

bman — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:36:15 +0000

You might not be able to get increased ranking from follow-through links, but linking through Facebook and Twitter DO drive traffic to your site and increase your visibility. That seems (to me) to be the main purpose of social media marketing. Not to increase your SEO, but to increase traffic and brand recognition.

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uberVU - social comments — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:00:41 +0000

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By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:11:46 +0000

First off, the whole cookie thing isn't random. We're talking about the web here. Cookies are a *totally* working analogy. Or pun. Or something.

Secondly, so that's kind of interesting regarding links being treated all the same (though I think I'd read that somewhere before); however, here's my thing: I keep my Facebook profile unindexed by search engines and I lock down my information.

It's not because I have anything to hide, but it's because I don't really use Facebook all that much and don't wanna worry too much with maintaining it. But if I wanted to boost page rank by linking to my own site from Facebook, I could technically attempt to do so (obviously, if even a miniscule amount) by opening my profile to public and linking to the site.

So I have the ability to help increase my own page rank but it comes at the expense of opening my profile for the public. Decisions, decisions. Or maybe it's not a big deal to me. Dunno yet. Heh.

Have you leveraged this technique as a strategy? Seen it work at all?