Do Facebook Pages and Twitter have any say in your rankings?

by lovboa Banned

Posted: 12 years ago 23 replies

I'm in a really competitive niche and am looking for anything to get an edge on my competitors.
One of my competitors who have just appeared last month has implemented all these things on their account. Google Circle, 500 Facebook likes (most likely purchased these likes), and Twitter.

My question is: With all the emphasis put on social media these days, will having an active Facebook page with many likes and a Twitter account with many followers have any significant effect on my rankings for the keyword?

Will it be worth making the Facebook page and twitter account solely for serp ranking purposes?
(I'm not talking about using these platforms as a traffic source)

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#facebook #pages #rankings #twitter

thatkeywordguy 12 years ago

Supposedly Google Plus will become increasingly important to ranking. Currently it may be limited
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SaveSaveSave 12 years ago

Apparently social ranking is beginning to have a bearing on website ranking. Plus one is definitely marked for having an effect (not surprisingly, as the rankings in Google are the ones affected) and social pages will most probably become more important over time when it comes to page rank.
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gameutopia 12 years ago

I don't think it has a significant impact, at least not right now. I hear people say it can give a temporary boost if you get enough, but I have not seen this happen. If it ever did it would be tough to compete with some big sites that hundreds of likes and tweets per post.
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ThatAblaze 12 years ago

Twitter, yes. Facebook, no.
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Brendan Mace 12 years ago

Both Facebook and Twitter can improve your website rankings. Although neither of them will likely cause any significant movement.

People forget that Google's algorithm is a lot more complex than just counting "link juice" or "no-follow vs do-follow."

A Facebook like, backlink or Tweet sends a positive signal to Google that has some value. For example, if a Twitter user has 20,000 legitmate followers, and your webiste is mentioned on that user's wall, Google will notice.

Similarly, if a Facebook page is fairly popular, and references your website, it would be silly for Google to ignore it.
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seoforu 12 years ago

It all depends upon the Google algorithm. The latest algorithm is focusing upon social media an an important factor in ranking webpages. Therefore getting a Facebook page and twitter account and increasing your popularity there would indirectly benefit you to rrank well on the serps.
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david87 12 years ago

No,it has no impact in search engine ranking,its important and useful to increase online awareness and traffic only.
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dotgirish 12 years ago

I am using twitter for indexing but need to check the direct impact of retweeting on my SERP . Twitter is a good indexing tool nowadays .
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Chips Fletcher 12 years ago

Google Webmaster tools show several links for my site on Twitter and on Facebook, so I would say that it is worth using both platforms for link juice.
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SEOMasters 12 years ago

Funny.
Always when you put a question up 50% will say yes and 50% will say no.
Only trust the people that really tested it and know the results from their tests.
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hurn 12 years ago

Social likes and sharing should appear as natural.. sudden increase and sudden drop will no appear as natural.
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rashmi12 12 years ago

hello thanks nice information
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AnnaSEO 12 years ago

Yes,Social media has a strong part in your search engine rankings.I recommend all my customers to keep their facebook and twitter fanpages active always.I know it works well.
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C Rebecca 12 years ago

If you are getting backlinks from twitter and facebook, you will definitely get a boost in SERP ranking... Google gives good weightage to backlinks from social media sites.

Keep rankings aside for a moment, these networking websites help you in driving traffic to your website and building a good client base. So, all in all, social networking is a good deal.
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patco 12 years ago

Twitter will help you for 2 things:

1) get a quick index of your website/blog
2) get instant traffic to your website

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Facebook will help you only for 1 thing:

- instant traffic
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mosthost 12 years ago

I'm not seeing it
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lovboa

Banned 12 years ago

I actually did make a twitter account 3 months ago just to try it out for my site. I have about 125 followers now and i barely use it anymore but I get about 2 new followers everyday.

That being said, I have not had a single visitor come in through Twitter.

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Kylie James

12 years ago

Originally Posted by lovboa

For that you need to do a proper engagement on social media platforms particularly Facebook & Twitter. Facebook is very good for instant traffic, if your page on facebook has thousand of fans you can easily divert your fans to your great website by posting your website content on facebook page. You can increase you returning visitors by this and google will love it for sure as you will be getting new and returning visitors on daily basis.

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Tom Albas 12 years ago

Danny Sullivan Asked Question To Google and Bing

Do you track links shared within Facebook, either through personal walls or fan pages?

Reply

Bing:

Yes. We look at links shared that are marked as “Everyone,” and links shared from Facebook fan pages.

Google:

We treat links shared on Facebook fan pages the same as we treat tweeted links. We have no personal wall data from Facebook.
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sham2 12 years ago

you can get many visitors and your site could be index instantly but it doesn't have anything with ranking.
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Chronic IM 12 years ago

Hello! I do believe in twitter but facebook, not as convincing or promising.
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dmtaylor247 12 years ago

I think both work and Youtube and Delicious, even Facebook but you need a large amount of fans to see any effect 10k +
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