How Google Rates Links from Twitter and FaceBook?

A few days back one of my friend ask this on FaceBook page Chat do twitter or Facebook really helps building traffic to a blog and how Google treats these back links from Facebook to a website.   Matt Cuts , senior Engineer Google clear this in a WebmasterToolHelp Video. Question is “Links from relevant and important sites have always been a great way to get traffic & acceptance for a website. How do you rate links from new platforms like Twitter, FB to a website?” . Here is what he says;

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So now you know how helpful Twitter and Facebook are for building trageted traffic and if you use it smartly with Hashtags, keywords and get your posts twetted from reputable twitter pages you can get the link Juice too.

8 Responses to “How Google Rates Links from Twitter and FaceBook?”

  1. watch season says:

    I would not be surprised if they had a special algorithm for such massive websites. Especially when Google started including Tweets in latest news on SERP pages.

  2. Malik Bilal says:

    great post really helped me … fb and twiteer if used prperly are great source of traffic

  3. I always thought Google holds special preference to sites like FB and Twitter, since they are such high PR.

  4. Thank god, I don’t do much of twitter or fb… No point at all. However, public profile pages – as Matt suggested – may be of some good if the top level domain there in is a reputed site.

  5. very very much useful video,he says exactly about the links from FB and Twitter, thank you very much for a great information

  6. bobit says:

    i think google search links are very important

    i think twitter links are not much useful

  7. Sinavlar says:

    Sorry,but in Turkey,youtube is forbidden so we couldnt watch the video.May you add it another video site because the question is really interesting

  8. iPadDude says:

    Well twitter links may not be very useful alone but once they ge retwetted they can get some PR value

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