How do you rate links from sites like Twitter and Facebook?
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Uploaded by GoogleWebmasterHelp on Jan 14, 2010
Mani from Delhi asks:
"Links from relevant and important sites have always been a great way to get traffic & acceptance for a website. How do you rate links from new platforms like Twitter, FB to a website?"
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So .edu and .gov could or could be good, Twitter and FB are a consideration but then there is the nofollow issue - if anyone got anything definitive out of this they saw something that I didn't.
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Very good info Matt...
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I THOUGHT I was computer literate...
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Good vídeo
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@mjdayetube Its true, i have tested it myself .edu doesn't give "extra powers"
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Thanks...
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I've been doing a lot of baldlinks this week, oops, backlinks. Well, even if it that's Nofollow, most people got to have in mind that they make their SEO in order to attract more visitors, not more spyders.
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Regardless of what Matt says (but mentions in a round about way), everyone forgets about robots.txt files on these sites. Google cannot get to Facebook users pages because they have to be logged in. And certain types of pages are prevented being indexed by its robots.txt file. Same goes for Twitter, which puts NOFOLLOW tag into public pages, but where search results pages might "look" like they do not have NOFOLLOW tags on them, the Twitter robots.txt file prevents Google crawling them anyway.
ukjim 2 years ago 8
Nice haircut and funny/clear videos. Thanks.
tautvys92 2 years ago 3