It's official. Twitter and Facebook have an impact on your website in the SERPs!

As of yesterday, both Bing and Google have confirmed (via an excellent interview by Danny Sullivan) that links shared through Twitter and Facebook have a direct impact on rankings (in addition to the positive second-order effects they may have on the link graph). This has long been suspected by SEOs (in fact, many of us posited it was happening as of November of last year following Google + Bing's announcements of partnerships with Twitter), but getting this official confirmation is a substantive step forward.

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What are your views on this?

Jack

 

Ohoo , I Hope it is true because I have shared so many things in twitter and in Facebook ..

 

This is highly possible since facebook has millions of users and therefore would rank highly if backlinks were posted through it.

 

D*mn, now I have to create an SEO facebook account and find out how to use this for seo....
Have to stay in front of the competition. D*mn.

 

Nice link, thanks for sharing!
Maybe it's time for somebody to offer paid tweets on multiple accounts

 

I am agree with it, It does have a effect, as social media optimization has become a good platform for promotion.And this the cheapest way to promote business and reach to potential customers.

 

Any links on popular social media sites will have an affect with the rankings, because of the great user activity on the site and the popularity of the domain and more...

 

The spammers will devalue this pretty darn quickly. And then they will stop using it.

If in fact it isn't just the usual Google obfuscation.

You know, 'When the Sun is in Pluto we give greater weight to backlinks from sites that have the word "flimp" in the URL'... or even funnier 'there is no duplicate content penalty...' or the funniest yet ' we don't favor our own sites in the serps manually...'

 

Now that will open a whole new field for spammers to play at

However, that will certainly encourage me to tweet much more now

 

I think the impact will be fairly less, because as people above pointed out, spammers will have a field day with it

 

Very Informative Information Thanks for sharing.

 

Wow, I'm waiting for new black hat techniques

 

Its true. And I knew it
Google gives more value to twitter/facebook because these are the sites, they're crawling after every second...

 

hey but both twitter and facebook provides nofollow links then how can nofollow links helps in SERP

 

Its true.. Now we have to focus more on Facebook and twitter .