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**aslanandbeez** · 04-08-2009, 07:37 AM

Sorry if this seems like a dumb question, but do facebook links have a no follow, or can they count as backlinks?

**riderbabygurl** · 04-08-2009, 08:08 AM

That's my question too and I think its no follow since I can't see a result that Facebook gives me a backlinks I think it provides traffic only..

How about the others??

**aslanandbeez** · 04-08-2009, 10:13 AM

What do you mean by the others, other social network groups? If so, forget myspace, they redirect all oif their links, and I don't know about twitter, haven't gotten around to using it, or linkedin

**wayfarer07** · 04-08-2009, 11:32 AM

They're nofollow, but that doesn't mean you can't use Facebook to promote stuff. It's the same with Twitter.

**motionctrller** · 04-08-2009, 01:14 PM

I wouldn't rely as Facebook for promotion, because I use it just to talk to friends, not people I would want to market to.

But many people do use Facebook for promotion, and are very successful, so I don't think that the noFollow effects their aims.

**wayfarer07** · 04-08-2009, 01:36 PM

Yes, they use it for REAL promotion, not cheap link-spam, which is why the links are nofollow. Not that I think Facebook is the best place to promote stuff, but where there's a will...

**Johnantony** · 04-09-2009, 08:04 AM

Facebook Links are nofollow they just divert only traffic.as they are nofollow you will not get backlinks.

**gullsinn** · 04-09-2009, 10:45 AM

Face book is NoFollow but it generates trafic helpful for promoting your website

**minhdai** · 04-10-2009, 04:51 AM

so many web 2.0 like facebook, digg, mixx ... they all have nofollow tag in out link. It just increase your traffic not your parge rank.

**inertia** · 04-11-2009, 03:00 AM

A good method for getting traffic from facebook is to create a profile with a picture of a very attractive model and join a social group preferably in a geographical area that makes sense to your site. Watch the friend requests come in, you don't even have to request yourself and then use it to promote your site.

**fork8210** · 04-15-2009, 05:36 AM

even though facebook links are no follow, its benefit when it comes to traffic actually depends in your network. The larger you network the better.

**takeonepicture** · 11-11-2009, 01:43 PM

it's true facebook is nofollow, i use it to create traffic to my sites.

**cyberquest** · 11-11-2009, 01:47 PM

Thanks everyone, I've always wonder if facebook links are dofollow.

**edgray** · 11-12-2009, 07:27 AM

Oddly, Facebook links have shown up in my Google Webmaster Tools control panel. I don't think Google is paying too much attention to "nofollow" these days.

**chrishirst** · 11-12-2009, 07:36 AM

Just because the links are shown it doesn't mean they "count"

**edgray** · 11-12-2009, 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by chrishirst

Just because the links are shown it doesn't mean they "count"

Could be true, but I don't think Google would bother to show links that don't count - they only give part of the link picture anyhow, I don't think they'd bother even indexing nofollow links.

I guess we'll never know unless Google tell us EXACTLY how they deal with links.

I would never sneer at a link, nofollow or otherwise. FB worked for me in the past, got some traffic, generated some interest. Link showed up in Google, well that would be a nice bonus!