Did you know that your Facebook page can earn a Google PR (PageRank) score? I first noticed it when I installed the SEOBook toolbar in my browser. It automatically tells me the PR of the page I visit. I have a bunch of Facebook pages I admin, but one one of them I've done a lot of work on over the past couple years. It is a community site, and i post almost daily content. I have a little over 5100 likes, and most of the time there are at least a few hundred people talking on it, with surges into the thousands when I post a batch of photos. Anyway, I was surprised to see that my Facebook page registers as a PR4 site. I'm not sure exactly what that equates to as far as passing link juice from posts, but it certainly must have some standing in the eyes of Google. Some of the big pages have a lot more. Coca Cola's Facebook page is a PR8, for instance. I'm curious - do any of your pages have PageRank? And have you ever tried to capitalize on it (sponsored posts, etc.)? --Henry
Yep some of my pages have PR. Never really tested it for SEO purposes or anything though. Its the same with youtube channels etc too. Pages on high authority sites tend to get pretty decent PR relatively easily.
Hello, This is an interesting topic. I too, recently, have noticed certain FB pages with PR. I already knew about YouTube having PR and I have found, from personal experience, that you can pass good link juice with YT. But back to FB. I found a FB page that had only 6 or 7 posts on it that were about 2 years old, the page had 9200+ likes, and it was a PR4. Since there was nothing but a few old posts on it I made a post on it with a link to a website I was trying to pass some link juice to. Before making the post I clicked on the title (which is editable and becomes the anchor text) and changed it with my main keyword in it. Seems that a day later someone deleted my post with the link so I sent a message to the page owner to try and buy the page. I would love to experiment with the SEO benefits this may have for passing PR4 link juice to a site. Maybe I'm behind the times already and this is common knowledge, but if they pass on link juice like any other PR 4 site would (and I'm not sure how just because it's on FB it would be any different), this could be significantly used as a great underground tip to rank your sites quickly. Especially if you could purposely setup a facebook page in a niche related to the site you wanted to rank and then know how to quickly up it's PR. I know and have done that with YouTube channels in a matter of a few months. I'm going to add this as a side project to figure this out. If I find anything out I'll try to make it back here and post my results. If anyone else wants to do the same that would be great! Later...