Google confirms social network data plays role in search ranking...

[Aaron.Scott]

Anybody read this yet?

Google confirms social network data plays role in search ranking

Have any fellow warriors seen there sites go up in the serps by using facebook or twitter?

I always thought those type of links were no-follow, so does this prove that no-follow doesn't matter anymore?

[JustinBrooke]

Man I been trying to say that for years LoL

NoFollow was just a PR campaign to soothe
a bunch of crying bloggers who thought comment
spammers were stealing all their SEO juice.

EDIT: Might I add... A VERY successful PR campaign!

None of the other SE's gave a hoot about it
and in over 100 experiments that I've done
NoFollow links have been just like any other link.

[Aaron.Scott]

Originally Posted by JustinBrooke

Man I been trying to say that for years LoL

NoFollow was just a PR campaign to soothe
a bunch of crying bloggers who thought comment
spammers were stealing all their SEO juice.

EDIT: Might I add... A VERY successful PR campaign!

None of the other SE's gave a hoot about it
and in over 100 experiments that I've done
NoFollow links have been just like any other link.

In my own experiments no follow links don't matter...

Anybody else care to chime in?

[Daniel Deegan]

People have been saying no follow don't mean squat to the big G for awhile now. The question is, how much of a factor does social presence play? The logical leap to the concept of PR is social presence and mentions. It's just a natural evolution. I just wonder how they are going about it and weighing it...

[Aaron.Scott]

Originally Posted by Daniel Deegan

People have been saying no follow don't mean squat to the big G for awhile now. The question is, how much of a factor does social presence play? The logical leap to the concept of PR is social presence and mentions. It's just a natural evolution. I just wonder how they are going about it and weighing it...

Who knows...

Guess it will just come down to testing and finding out from there. I would imagine they would place a higher weight on a twitter link if mutiple people posted the same link, or if you posted a link from an account that had 1,000's of followers.... But again who knows just comes down to the testing.

[JustinBrooke]

If we look at Google's history we can find out how
they will likely weight social mentions.

They like popularity, authority, and relevance right?

So if you are a tech blogger and Mike Arrington tweets
out a link to your site, chances are that's going to have
a lot more weight than @JohnnyLovesDoggies tweeting
about your blog.

I believe activity (social mentions, subscriber counts,
and on-site evidence) will eventually out-weight backlinks.
Especially when backlinks are being SOOO HEAVILY
manipulated now.

Isn't that what happened to meta tags and alt tags?

Once over-optimization hits they find a new way to
rank you. This is their new way and it WILL have a lot
of weight soon as they realize how well it works.

You can more reliably tell the popularity of a website by the
amount of authoritative tweets/shares/subscriber velocity
than by the amount of backlinks it gets.

It can be gamed though just like backlinks, and it will be,
but then they'll find another way... and the cycle continues

[pethanks]

This is a good news. We can now strengthen our social networking campaign.

[clever7]

Thank you for this information!

[Johndb]

I don't know whether the social media links boost site rankings, BUT I have seen SEO boost social media rankings. I made some backlinks to a Facebook page and got it on page one of Google.

You might all shoot me down and say "Duh, obviously!" but I'm new to this and was chuffed when when it worked ;-)

[Aaron.Scott]

Originally Posted by Johndb

I don't know whether the social media links boost site rankings, BUT I have seen SEO boost social media rankings. I made some backlinks to a Facebook page and got it on page one of Google.

You might all shoot me down and say "Duh, obviously!" but I'm new to this and was chuffed when when it worked ;-)

Nice! That's a pretty good strategy.... going to be trying it later this week.

[Trinidad]

i am not sure about it but for long time experienced with it i never see any good rsult from fb and twt but i never see twitter page ranks so well for some keyword, which suprised me lots