How do you rate links from sites like Twitter and Facebook?
Mani from Delhi asks: “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?” Thisvideo is part of a “Grab Bag” series in which Matt Cutts, head of Google’s webspam team, answers questions from webmasters. We’re not currently taking new video questions, so your best bet for getting an answer about webmaster-related search issues is to head to our help forum: www.google.com
Video Rating: 4 / 5
WOW, you look so much better with no hair! I love bald heads or very short hair, so thank you for being eye candy!
Hi Matt – you look like one of the Google marines, fighting spam on the frontiers of the internet. Samper fi!
GOTTA say, your new look is DEFINITELY a winner (from a stylist’s POV teehee)…
hi, I subitled this video at spanish, and is in my channel if u like I can send the subtitle, please let me know. 10x
Fascinating.
no one cares.
lol.
Very nice info. I have couple of such as well in my back office.
Now who wouldn’t want to increase their marketing success and become a millionaire?
haha how u dare to spam google video comments
Dear Bald Googler ,
Not to worry , if you lost a ” bet ” you ” won ”
something even more ” valuable ” , probably
some more friends *****, but most important
a ” vigorous ” hair ” growth from it’s root, as
if you were a baby , now it will grow faster and
healthier than before …
You see what I mean …
And also , intresting your social videos
explanation in a simple way …
All the best
GENTLEGOOGLE
i thought its different guy… hehehehehe.. nice new look
Regardless of what Matt says (but mentions in a round about way), everyone forgets about robots.txt files on these sites. Google cannot get to Facebook users pages because they have to be logged in. And certain types of pages are prevented being indexed by its robots.txt file. Same goes for Twitter, which puts NOFOLLOW tag into public pages, but where search results pages might “look” like they do not have NOFOLLOW tags on them, the Twitter robots.txt file prevents Google crawling them anyway.
Thanks it is actually great news.
I found that a ”young website” with high traffic that mentioned regularly, like mine suddenly is up before many other big websites with endless backlinks.
It is great thank you!
great work
secretbusinessmarketing . com
great.
nofollow doesn’t pass the PR, but the bot follows all links.
Nice haircut and funny/clear videos. Thanks.
I asked this on your blog but how do you get Twitter to do follow and no-follow links?
Thanks for the vids – just getting started on them now.
How much do they pay you to do this?
Yeah I know this won’t be replied, but cool company/career…
nice bet u lost lol hehehe nice 2 c u again
Right that’s how I have come to understand it as well. Even though the PR doesn’t follow through, does google still “add a point” to your website rank?
I understand if you don’t know the answer but hopefully someone here knows.
Great vid, thanks for the hair response, I been scratching my head.. In fact I did so much, I lost my hair.
From my limited understanding, Google still crawls the page regardless of nofollow tag, the nofollow tag simple dosen’t allow the flow of page rank too the link. If you don’t want the page to be index, then use the noindex meta tag.
So does google still rank a link if it’s a nofollow?
Thanks for the videos. However, if feel this really didn’t address the question directly enough to be helpful in this instance… I understand there is a certain amount of secrecy behind the formula, but simply saying that nofollow links affect the way the spiders work isn’t exactly a revelation. Any way you can clarify a bit?