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    Twitter follows

    In SEO term how important are twitter follows and facebook likes?

    I'm thinking of some promotions, where you get some free backup space in return for a twitter follow or maybe a facebook like.

    But wondering how actually useful those kind of indirect links are in terms of SEO? Or are there better ways of free promotions for SEO building...

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  2. Social networks are a great way to spread your content to different types of people that you wouldn't normally reach. But I don't think it has a great advantage for SEO. Facebook and twitter even adds rel="nofollow" to links users post. Bots/crawlers will ignore those links which means, no backlinks.

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    For twitter, the more followers you have and the quality of those followers affects your twitter pages PR which should help your main sites SEO a little. I would make sure that your contest required a follow and a retweet of a post with your link in it. This the maximize the SEO of the contest. I can't speak on the SEO of facebook likes since I have never looked into that before.

    The better benefit of followers and likes is being able to keep your brand in front of people with message updates.

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    Facebook and Twitter links will help increase traffic but won't help your SEO ranking at all as all the links are 'nofollow'

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    Quote Originally Posted by cwcs_hosting View Post
    Facebook and Twitter links will help increase traffic but won't help your SEO ranking at all as all the links are 'nofollow'
    This is not true because Google themselves confirmed that links from Twitter and Facebook do help for your rankings.

    Here is the interview that confirms everything.

    SEOmoz even posted an article confirming that Facebook and Twitter does improve your rankings for Google and Bing.
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    I've heard that the I like feature in Facebook can make a difference for SEO. And why shouldn't it be a difference? The I like this feature is a great way to analyze if people think that the website/url is useful or not.
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    It will work as SEO if you have a targeted friends and followers then only it will work otherwise it is waste of time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by reliabox-mike View Post
    For twitter, the more followers you have and the quality of those followers affects your twitter pages PR which should help your main sites SEO a little.
    Hi Mike. When you say the "quality" of your followers, how exactly is this ranked? This must tie into the 'klout' feature I've heard about?

    I have an idea that all of the marketing and SEO folks that follow me would be of fairly low quality, whereas real people who are followed by other real people would be of higher value? But how is this determined?

    Thanks!

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    One thing that I have seen is offering a promo with facebook and twitter for your current clients. If they follow and retweet or like on facebook, they get a month credit, or something like that.

    Not only does this make your client happy since its an easy way for them to save money, it helps drive traffic to your site, and it gives you another alternative to reach your clients in mass if needed.

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    These sites give high PR backlinks for site but links are nofollow
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    Quote Originally Posted by DeanoC View Post
    In SEO term how important are twitter follows and facebook likes?

    I'm thinking of some promotions, where you get some free backup space in return for a twitter follow or maybe a facebook like.

    But wondering how actually useful those kind of indirect links are in terms of SEO? Or are there better ways of free promotions for SEO building...
    Correct me if I am wrong, but I really do think twitter follows and facebook likes mean nothing in SEO. These huge networking properties do not allow passing link juices to other sites. In social media promotions, they help a lot, but in terms of ranking on search engine results pages, I think they're nothing but a contribution to a bunch of nofollow links, which does not actually contribute a lot in SEO, especially when SEO is conducted for Google rankings.
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    Quote Originally Posted by blings View Post
    Correct me if I am wrong, but I really do think twitter follows and facebook likes mean nothing in SEO. These huge networking properties do not allow passing link juices to other sites. In social media promotions, they help a lot, but in terms of ranking on search engine results pages, I think they're nothing but a contribution to a bunch of nofollow links, which does not actually contribute a lot in SEO, especially when SEO is conducted for Google rankings.
    If you look a bit higher in this post, I clearly stated that Google themselves confirmed that Twitter & Facebook inbound links increase your rankings. I even gave a link with the interview that sais it all and an amazing article by SEOmoz which explains exactly how it helps your rankings.
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    While the links may not help your site's ranking, you need to take into account that search engines are starting to rank results from social network profiles pretty high. Just google your own name, you'll find your Facebook profile is pretty up there. Having company profiles with these sites and remaining active enhances your presence on the web and exposes you to a greater audience, and your profile, if well managed, may serve as a "gateway" for your own site, therefore attracting traffic. And since your profile increases your chances of getting hits on search results, I'd say they are very important for SEO, and I believe they will become more important in the future, even if they don't directly improve your Pr.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Guillo View Post
    While the links may not help your site's ranking, you need to take into account that search engines are starting to rank results from social network profiles pretty high. Just google your own name, you'll find your Facebook profile is pretty up there. Having company profiles with these sites and remaining active enhances your presence on the web and exposes you to a greater audience, and your profile, if well managed, may serve as a "gateway" for your own site, therefore attracting traffic. And since your profile increases your chances of getting hits on search results, I'd say they are very important for SEO, and I believe they will become more important in the future, even if they don't directly improve your Pr.
    Excellent Point Guillo!! The links are nofollow but who knows Google might change their ranking algorithm later on. Very true.. Search Results from Facebook come very high these days!

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    Twitter is excellent way to keep in touch with your visitors/customers. However I don't see how it could help in SEO except for the points that Guillo has mentioned in earlier post.
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    Twitter & Facebook are good social networking sites but you should have targeted followers & fans.

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    Quote Originally Posted by metaseo View Post
    If you look a bit higher in this post, I clearly stated that Google themselves confirmed that Twitter & Facebook inbound links increase your rankings. I even gave a link with the interview that sais it all and an amazing article by SEOmoz which explains exactly how it helps your rankings.
    I stand corrected. Honestly overlooked that.
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    yes these two social networks are the King of this sector. It really adds spice to bringing great business.

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    Google has said that they are going to start taking social networking, linkedin etc in account in their rankings. They are also looking to see if websites are real companies, with an about us page, has employees. They are trying to weed out "content farms". I also think this will help stop the "they are nofollow so don't count" responses that you see on every thread and forum regarding SEO.

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    hi

    getting more twitter followers and facebook likes is part of Social Media Marketing or SMO..according to me it is completely different to SEO and more like the next step after doing SEO, on page and off page optimisation

    there r lot of sites wht u can buy twitter followers...

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    These sites helps to get high traffic to the site. In these social networking sites links are nofollow so these are not helpful for SEO point of view.

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    These days most of the webmaster using twitter follow and fan page in facebook to increase traffic. But no idea about its effect in seo.

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    Any more info on them weeding out companies with employees as being real companies? Seems like a content farm just has to make up all that info then to look real.

    Quote Originally Posted by Reliabox-James View Post
    Google has said that they are going to start taking social networking, linkedin etc in account in their rankings. They are also looking to see if websites are real companies, with an about us page, has employees. They are trying to weed out "content farms". I also think this will help stop the "they are nofollow so don't count" responses that you see on every thread and forum regarding SEO.
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    Twitter and Facebook are not gonna help you in improving Search Engine Rankings as per my knowledge. They are the best social networks and can improve your site traffic and brand awareness

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    Quote Originally Posted by metaseo View Post
    This is not true because Google themselves confirmed that links from Twitter and Facebook do help for your rankings.

    Here is the interview that confirms everything.

    SEOmoz even posted an article confirming that Facebook and Twitter does improve your rankings for Google and Bing.
    Super links metaseo

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