Officially Confirmed – Facebook & Twitter Not Used For Ranking

Are pages from social media sites ranked differently?

In a new webmaster help video, Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cuts treated this time a question with a surprising answer. Have Facebook likes and Twitter messages affect the Google ranking of your website …?

Chief engineer of the Spam department at Google’s Matt Cutts has officially confirmed that Facebook and Twitter do not affect your ranking in Google. All the more reason, therefore, to be active in Google+ since it is important for your ranking in Google.

This was already with us and many other internet marketers known but is now officially confirmed. Watch this video from Matt Cutts in which he explains this:

A new in-depth video for SEOs: Are pages from social media sites ranked differently in web search? http://t.co/6kgpvD0agF

— Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) January 22, 2014

Alok Raghuwanshi is an India-based SEO Professional, and author of an SEO and social media marketing blog. Take a look and let me know what you think by including your comment below. Thank you and have a great day.

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