Is Facebook best for SEO ?

[directmedparts]

I don't think facebook is best for SEO, but you can get good response if you promote your business on facebook.

 

[ITsoldUK]

facebook is best for smo

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[steviemac]

I think the jury is out on whether facebook plays any significant part in helping your websites rankings rise. It's possible, but unlikely - probably no-one can say for certain. But it's useful of course for promotion to other users, particularly through likes.

 

[Danmill]

This is a question that seems to pop up a lot. SMO rather than SEO and Facebook is certainly a decent marketing tool - although there are definitely more effective tools even for that!

 

[traveler29]

I have been able to successfully rank my fb fanpage on the 1st page for my keywords.

 

[ORDERED WEB]

Facebook is basically use for Social Media Optimization (SMO). Facebook is best for smo we can share,like etc. on it...

SMO... something else to sell cos the last SEO thing you tried doenst work

Content. Great content, unique content is king, followed by being an authoritory on-line. SEO is simple really

 

[marvin_smith]

I think Facebook is best for SEO, because this is the most popular social networking site worldwide. Hence beneficial for online marketing.

 

[davesexportshouse]

I think yes Facebook is good for Search Engine Optimizer. It is a good social media optimizer for increase our business. There are many options available on Facebook to advertise your business.

 

[aaroncampbell]

FB is good for social media. It will help you in viral marketing. But it is not the only best thing for SEO. It is better to get more knowledge about SEO Techniques.

 

[Onlineadguru]

Yes it's good for it, but it's like anything else you'll need to use combined methods for your SEO. Facebook isn't going to be the best tool, neither is it going to work alone. More thank anything it's useful!

 

[kaminiprajapati]

May be facebook is not the one and only, all in one, best option for SEO but it can and it might help you to get rankings for sure also don't forget to use other search engine optimization methods as well.

 

[AemiliaJackson]

Facebook is a social media site and help to increase popularity and direct traffic of website.

 

[waterr]

Imho, all Social Networking activities does boost our website traffic but it doesn't help any organic rankings. When we share something on Facebook with links attached, the links are nofollow and therefore has little to no value. The same goes with Twitter, LinkedIn & other Social Networking Sites.

 

[JMcKaye]

Why is this even a question? Is Facebook best for SEO? ...

It's not a question of is Facebook best for SEO, the question is, how could you use Facebook as the social platform it is and reap some sort of SEO benefit.

Scenario:

You have a good community on Facebook and decide you have some amazing content you'd like to share with them. You update your status with a link to the amazing content that is hosted on your site. You gain traffic from that post via Facebook. The community then decides they like it so much they are going to share links to it from their own sites and voila, SEO benefit.

IMHO, I'd purely use Social media for what its used for - engaging users, forget SEO, that'll follow if the engaging and sharing is done correctly

 

[Luisribas]

In a Days , Most of People Are on Facebook and Also Search engine crawl all the social network link therefor facebook is best for marketing and Backlinks.

 

[markrobin]

Hello there, Facebook optimization is good for SEO but i want to know how to do prompt any product in face book page. Is there any page or any part where i can prompt this? Thanks in advance for your reply.

 

[mmukaetov]

Facebook is good for getting a huge traffic in case of SEO it's not

 

[velvetcity]

The advice I was given, when setting up our website is:
Google change search criteria monthly. They have made it a priority to show the most relevant sites on the first page. To do this they want to see that your site is still running and people are "talking" about it. Therefor yes having a Facebook page is great - as long as you have "likes" Twitter also great as long as you have "followers" also pinterest, and google plus can be good depending on what products you have.

Basically they show that you are relevant plus it cant hurt because it costs nothing but time and could get you business.....why wouldn't you do it!!!

I have to admit though it is hard to think of things to say that keeps there attention...i'm not great at it. but i see alot of small companies with thousands of followers - especially on twitter.

 

[Clearsix Chris]

Facebook is definitely not the best for SEO because there is no best for SEO.

It's just one part (but not an essential part if you're no good at it) of the marketing mix.

The best long term strategy for ranking well and generating traffic is to be active on all the big social platforms as well as blogs, online magazines and forums that are specific to your industry.

Create content for your sites. Create content for other sites in your industry. Be helpful and prolific and do things that your fans/customers will want to share and link to on a consistent basis.

Market Leadership is more valuable and profitable than SEO.

 

[Oakley7]

Facebook is the fastest growing social networking sites so it is called as best for seo

Sigh.... wish this topic would die ..........it's doing my head in with some of the idiotic replies from people who haven't a clue about the concept of SEO.

There's some good advice in this topic from a few switched on people who look at the wider picture but many are talking total rubbish unfortunately.

Rant over....

 

[DotNetWebs]

The post you quoted was just a junk spambot post and I have deleted it. I suspect many of the other posts in this thread are too.

Regards

Dotty

Sigh.... wish this topic would die ..........it's doing my head in with some of the idiotic replies from people who haven't a clue about the concept of SEO.

There's some good advice in this topic from a few switched on people who look at the wider picture but many are talking total rubbish unfortunately.

Rant over....

 

[whatanidea1]

FaceBook is one of the most famous websites in the world and millions of users are using it everyday. Facebook can give a boost to the website and we know the fact the here we get the targeted traffic for the website.

 

[Rich Best]

If you're looking for a social media platform that will really give you an SEO boost go for Google+. As you can imagine, Google want its own SM platform to do well and one of the best ways of doing this is giving it better SEO opportunities than its competitors.

While Facebook is OK for SEO purposes, if you don't have much time and want maximum effect go with G+! If you're not sure how to use it I'm in the middle of writing a how-to guide! Once that's done I can give you more advice on how to use G+ effectively.

 

[Annoying Donkey]

...if you don't have much time and want maximum effect...

Or just produce good interesting content and make it easy for your readers/visitors to like/tweet/share. Far better use of time than faffing about on social networks...

 

[vpscore]

Facebook is best seo if you have great job. Great job is selling stuff that wont world and all people on them

Facebook is great but you have more other stuff what you must doing if you wont that your website are in first google searching pages

 

[tomkent45]

In my opinion you can use Facebook to promote your brand further and help you to get more exposure but it doesn't really work for SEO. For this you'll need to start guest blogging elsewhere.

 

[chrisvb2432]

SEO wise it isn't really worth that much as Google doesnt crawl it. Google does look at shares though i.e. add some social sharing buttons to your site and Google can read that.

 

[Janelle]

Yes! not literally a back-link but a social signal to search engines itself. Aside from that, it can create a good traffic if you target the right audience well.

 

[marklouis]

Facebook is for social media marketing and it is certainly not for SEO purposes. For SEO you need to have a website or a blog, having merely a facebook profile wont serve your purpose of SEO.

 

[GoneFishing9990]

Have to agree here with most. The simple answer to the question is no

 

[chiragvyas2311]

Facebook is the best Social Networking sites among the Social Media. It has large number of users they any other Social Media. It will help to Like & Share the post and SEO of you site by bringing visitors to your site.
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[Rachel S]

I think facebook is not enough for SEO. When I posts my links into some pages on facebook they delete immediately my posts with links. But there are some great benefits to liking some fb pages for your products. You can do cross linking within Facebook by commenting on relevant pages or by creating more pages yourself.

Thanks!!!
Rachel !!!

 

[Linnette Jane]

I guess, FB is a big help for promoting your website to have unique view and traffic. FB is the best for SEO, because we can share link to fb. Youtube and twitter and myspace also help you with this matter.

 

[GreatAddyson]

Yes why not, by doing facebook to your business you may definitely increase your website traffic and also it may satisfy to reach the targeted potential customers.

 

[Shelly Watson]

Facebook is an important platform for social media marketing. SEO is another way to promote your sites. They are not in same group. So facebook may be the best for SMM, but you need to learn more about SEO.

 

[GodOfSEO]

Facebook and SEO are 2 completely separate things but the same thing as the same time, it's very complicated!

Facebook likes, shares and comments on your website or our fanpage (which is linked to your site) attract something called social signals which Google takes into consideration for your site and is a top method at the moment for ranking.

 

[adsengine]

I think google have a plan here, tell everyone that social signals are high priority. Spammers move in and make Facebook full of even more crap than it is at the moment.

 

[sonammaal]

Facebook will help to drive some traffic if you have nice products to attract people. It will not help in search though, but still it will count one good backlink in SEO.