Do backlinks from Facebook help search engine ranking in Google?

Jolie Level 1

December 9, 2012, 11:27 am

10

Write the reason you're deleting this FAQ

Do backlinks from Facebook help search engine ranking in Google?

Are backlinks from Facebook or Twitter considered more important than backlinks from an average blog? What type of sites does Google give preference to, when it comes to backlinks?

Comments

Please login or sign up to leave a comment

Join

beingatulk

beingatulk

Facebook or Twitter are high PR social networking sites. Getting back links from such sites will definitely help you.

12 years ago

Are you sure you want to delete this post?

Beverly

Beverly

Getting Facebook shares/likes can increase your authority status as an author with Google. This could all material you've published rank higher as you are considered an expert by Google for your niche.

12 years ago

Are you sure you want to delete this post?

zainshuja

zainshuja

While social shares may or may not affect a webpage’s position in search listings, your social profiles definitely influence the content of your search results. In fact, social media profiles are often amongst the top results in search listings for brand names. When I searched “General Electric” in Google, the company’s Instagram and Pinterest profiles appeared as the 5th and 6th listings, respectively, and Twitter was the 8th result.

9 years ago

Are you sure you want to delete this post?

williamjohn

williamjohn

Social media sites have high page rank and attained more popularity. Getting link from social media site is good for seo. You can also promote your brands in social medias.

9 years ago

Are you sure you want to delete this post?

vinaya

vinaya

I don't think sharing links on facebook or twitter for that matter will have your site get better ranking on Google. Google does not count facebook and twitter sharing as a backlinking. However, sharing on facebook and twitter will help you generate social signals and traffic. If you generate social signals and traffic, Google will rank your content higher.

7 years ago

Are you sure you want to delete this post?

Corzhens

Corzhens

In the not so olden times, posts in social media about your website is not considered by search engines but in the recent times they are called social signals and the links that you post on your Facebook timeline is considered a backlink. Why not? The post you made last year about your website can still be read by your friends and the link you left there can still be clicked and give traffic to your website.

6 years ago

Are you sure you want to delete this post?

Kakashi2020

Kakashi2020

In essence yes, because having your backlinks in social media will get you more views and higher views will increase your authority and will have a positive effect on your rankings. What I know is that social media shares affects rankings, so it's in the number of shares that can affect rankings.

6 years ago

Are you sure you want to delete this post?