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Does Google Index FB content?

by sadecent
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Hey guys..

Thanks for stopping by , i was doing some research about SEO and content indexing and comes to know that Google don't index FB content , y is it so? i mean its one of the biggest social media plat form , its social signals have importance in the eye of Google so y dont it get indexed?

Your valuable thoughts would be appreciated.
#content #google #index
  • Profile picture of the author cbpayne
    https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Afacebook.com
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  • Profile picture of the author Arttech
    Yes they do.They also look at how many "likes" your page has.
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    • Profile picture of the author cbpayne
      Originally Posted by Arttech View Post

      They also look at how many "likes" your page has.
      Do you have a source or citation for that? or are you just making it up?
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Does Google Index FB content?
        You tell us, do a site:domain.com/exact-url-here

        There's no guessing involved, either it's indexed or it's not.





        Originally Posted by cbpayne View Post

        Do you have a source or citation for that? or are you just making it up?
        Making it up.
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    • Profile picture of the author patco
      Originally Posted by Arttech View Post

      Yes they do.They also look at how many "likes" your page has.
      Sorry. Can't agree with you! You need to prove your post!! You can have for example a page with 200k+ fans and it still could be not indexed!
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  • Profile picture of the author deepakjha818
    I dont think they index facebook content, they only index Facebook pages and profiles, not the content like (Your posts etc..).
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO-Dave
    If Google can spider the page and there isn't a noindex meta tag for that page, Google will try to index it just like with all other sites on the internet (Facebook is just another website)

    That doesn't mean Google sees what you see when logged into Facebook.

    For example site search for my Facebook page:

    https://www.google.com/search?q=XYZ#...%2Fdavid.c.law

    Shows it's indexed, but check the cache or log out of Facebook and view the page. Google doesn't see what we see when logged in, Google sees the logged out version.

    Shows the music and TV shows I've liked, not the pages I've shared etc... Even my list of sites in the bottom right hand corner are nofollow, so no SEO benefit passed to them.

    Out of all the links I've shared and posts made only a few are indexed like this one https://www.facebook.com/david.c.law...05107054622185

    Even when Google does index Facebook posts etc... the links out are rel="nofollow" so pass no direct SEO benefit.

    Faceboook doesn't appear to have any direct SEO value and Google have said they don't treat Facebook any different to any other website, so what we see when logged out is pretty much what Google sees and takes into account.

    On Facebook likes for example, where would Google find the number of Facebook likes and why would they use a metric that's so easy to manipulate?

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    • Profile picture of the author Bo Kauffmann
      Originally Posted by SEO-Dave View Post

      If Google can spider the page and there isn't a noindex meta tag for that page, Google will try to index it just like with all other sites on the internet (Facebook is just another website)

      That doesn't mean Google sees what you see when logged into Facebook.

      For example site search for my Facebook page:

      https://www.google.com/search?q=XYZ#...%2Fdavid.c.law

      Shows it's indexed, but check the cache or log out of Facebook and view the page. Google doesn't see what we see when logged in, Google sees the logged out version.

      Shows the music and TV shows I've liked, not the pages I've shared etc... Even my list of sites in the bottom right hand corner are nofollow, so no SEO benefit passed to them.

      Out of all the links I've shared and posts made only a few are indexed like this one https://www.facebook.com/david.c.law...05107054622185

      Even when Google does index Facebook posts etc... the links out are rel="nofollow" so pass no direct SEO benefit.

      Faceboook doesn't appear to have any direct SEO value and Google have said they don't treat Facebook any different to any other website, so what we see when logged out is pretty much what Google sees and takes into account.

      On Facebook likes for example, where would Google find the number of Facebook likes and why would they use a metric that's so easy to manipulate?

      David

      Assuming SEO Dave is correct, could this also have the benefit of being able to copy your blog posts directly into Facebook?

      I'm not looking at it from a SEO standpoint, but rather from the view of getting your article and material in front of a new audience?

      If Google does not index Facebook notes it can not penalize you for duplicate content after you copy your previously published blog post right into fb!

      Am I correct?
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      • Profile picture of the author paulgl
        I hate to keep adding to an old thread, but this one does
        need an update. Once again, I will chastise people into
        not reading or keeping up on the internet. One reason
        why you people fail miserably.

        Anyway, recently google and FB started partnering up.
        Not the first time, but this one was "kinda" huge.
        Google (and others) cannot access quite a bit of
        "content" because they have no real access to it.
        So they need to come to some sort of partnership
        to crawl it, although crawl is not the right term.
        Having access to it is a closer way of putting it.
        What they show in SERPs is another thing.
        But with apps becoming the norm on mobile,
        google sure would like a way in. Mobile was
        the key issue on this one.

        FB would be a fool not to partner with google,
        and vice versa.

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  • Profile picture of the author stealthtargeting
    Normally Google index Facebook shared content. A share implies more commitment by the person doing the sharing, and public Facebook pages and profiles can be crawled by Google.
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  • Profile picture of the author AndresNWD
    Google only indexes "public" content as your profile picture (unless you specifically set it up to make it private).
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  • Profile picture of the author powerofschool
    Hi Mate,

    FB Post will be indexed by Google . Many of our Posts are been indexed in google.
    Thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      People are mixing stuff up.

      OP starts of by saying that google must use fb cuz it's so big....
      Sorry, that logic is way off base.

      Google can't index what it can't see. And if it can, what's the point?

      None of my facebook posts get indexed. And never will. Like
      zillions of others. Gee, I wonder why? I dunno. Maybe it's
      the platform they use...ya think?

      I can't imagine why anyone would need or want a facebook post
      indexed. No reason. Your friends see it, right?

      Why put a post on fb for google search? Why not make a real post
      or article somewhere else that matters?

      You people live in a parallel universe. Still thinking because facebook is
      facebook, that somehow it MUST matter. Well, keep dreaming. I can't think
      of a single post I've made that I would want google to index. I use facebook
      the way it is intended. For social, not SEO.

      Facebook has done a pretty good job (so far) keeping the SEO spamming
      lunatics at bay....sure they can spam a reply or post....but google will
      never see it. But lunatics breed more lunatics. Keep trying to hammer
      square spam into a round hole.

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