Does Twitter give better SEO than Facebook?

[mark_baird]

Which social network is most important in the eyes of Google etc.

[GPainter]

It's not about importance but more about crawlability, because Facebooks has privacy settings and not everyone's profile is public it can't always crawl all the links where as Twitter Google can see the links.

So twitter is better as Google can read it easier. Bing Uses Facebook more I believe.

[Ratan]

You can't actually get a candid 'yes' or 'no' answer to it. Twitter has it's own benefits and so is the case with Facebook. What matters is how effectively are you using a channel. If you are using Twitter efficiently, it is good for you, and if I am great at Facebook, it is the best for me. When talk about the potential of these two in terms of SEO, they both are neck to neck.

Google does see social signals and gives it importance in search rankings, but it does not necessarily depend on any one social media for the same. More is better for it.

Using at least 5 channels like Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Google Plus, Stumble Upon etc. devotedly will give you the benefits of social signals in a better way.

Thanks

[crackingmedia]

Hi Mark

I agree with both Chris & Ratan. Based on Rand's recent Whiteboard Friday there is also a case of saying Google+ is best for SEO - some interesting thoughts on there so worth watching.

Peter

[TheeDigital]

I agree with everyone said above.

In the terms of social media, I want to point out that Google+ has been known to make pages get crawled faster.

[McTaggart]

You might find this useful: http://searchengineland.com/what-everybody-missed-about-hummingbird1-176031

[mark_baird]

Thanks everyone. Im looking into working more on G+ as well as all the others.