Site Explorer, Social Media Count. Am I linking my social media correctly?

[Paul_Tovey]

How do I correctly link my social media pages?

I have link going from my Twitter, Facebook and Google + to my website.

But a quick Open site explorer check says that I have, 0 Facebook Friends, 0 Twitter followers and 0 Google + Followers. Where as in relaity, I have 100 - 1000 follwers on each.

Infact, the hyperlink from my Twitter Profile section doesn't appear as a no follow link atall on an OSE check of my website.

Am I linking social media wrong?

[Paul_Tovey]

Nobody has any ideas?

[IainReloadMedia]

Hey Paul,

You are linking your social media profiles correctly. However you have made a small mix-up between Social followers and Social shares & plus 1's. OSE only reports on shares & plus 1's, not followers.

Your Twitter profile link will show in OSE eventually, it just needs to find it (index) it first. This can take several months. Even though SEOMOZ do an amazing job with OSE, they are essentially trying to reverse engineer Google, which is no mean feat, as Google is quite well funded shall we say.

Give it a couple of months and it will show up.

Hope that clears everything up for you.

Iain - Reload Media

[Paul_Tovey]

Thanks makes a lot of sense, thanks Iain!

[JoelDay]

Hey Paul,

Thanks for reaching out.
One quick thing to remember when you're looking at the social metrics on OSE, those are for the URL specifically.

They have no correlation to your actual facebook page.

For example: www.seomoz.org had 156 Facebook Likes on OSE, where as our actual facebook page has 79,222. Significant difference there.

I hope that makes sense. It can definitely be confusing if you aren't expecting it.

Cheers,
Joel.

edit: fix a word.