Social Media SEO
Sep 21, 2010 by Marissa Berger
One of the major benefits of Social Media is how it can significantly improve search engine rankings, if done with SEO in mind.
I have been reading “Social Media for Business. 101 Ways to Grow Your Business without Wasting Your Time” and came across a handy table with a list of which social media content gets indexed by search engines and which does not.
It’s important to know what content gets indexed and also to realize that this might change… what gets indexed today might not get indexed tomorrow and vice versa.
Here’s the list from the book (which was published in August 2010).
| Social Media Site | Indexed? |
| LinkedIn Profile | Subset of your profile is indexed |
| LinkedIn Recommendations | No |
| LinkedIn Groups | No |
| LinkedIn Applications | No |
| LinkedIn Microblogging | No |
| LinkedIn Job Postings | Yes |
| LinkedIn Answers | Yes |
| LinkedIn Company Page | Subset of the company page is indexed |
| Facebook Profile | Yes, based on privacy settings limited info is shown |
| Facebook Page | Yes |
| Facebook Groups | Yes |
| Facebook Advertising | No |
| Facebook Applications | No |
| Yes | |
| YouTube Video | Yes |
| YouTube Channel | Yes |
| YouTube Groups | Yes |
| YouTube Advertising | No |
| YouTube Streams | No |
| MySpace Profile | Yes |
| MySpace Groups | Yes |
| MySpace Forums | Yes |
| MySpace Events | Yes |
| MySpace Applications | No |
| MySpace Blogs | Yes |
| MySpace Advertising | No |
| Flickr Profile | Yes |
| Flickr Photos/Videos | Yes |
| Flickr Groups | Yes |
| Flickr Applications | Yes |
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