Does anyone know in his SEO experience if links coming from Facebook, Delicious, Digg are useful to increase PageRank on Google?I would say NO cause most of these links are nofollow and/or stored in hidden areas (users require their account to read those pages).But lately when searching for some business names, the 1st results on Google was the Facebook page of those businesses (that also irritated me), but I started wondering about this question.
Are SEO links from Facebook, Delicious, Digg useful to increase Google PR?
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Outgoing links from Facebook, for example, to a website are caught by a redirect script (Are you sure you want to leave Facebook?) - these links are definitely not counted toward the PageRank of the destination site.Internal links within Facebook (i.e. links to the Facebook page within Facebook's indexes) will not have a nofollow or robots.txt restriction, so (insofar as a search engine is concerned) the Facebook profile page will have at least a handful of inbound links; if the company's website also includes a link to the company's Facebook profile and the company's website itself has fewer inbound links than the company's Facebook profile, I can see where the Facebook page would likely show up first in the search results.The question is, is it desirable for the company's Facebook page to show up before the company's own website in the search results?I can't imagine too many cases in which the company would benefit from having most users land on its profile at Facebook over landing at the site it has full control over.