Does Twitter Feed create backlinks?

[Rubix]

Hi all,

This morning I have seen a new backlink coming to one of our client's website. I have checked the link and it is a page full of social network feeds. I guess when i tweet something related to their subject it came up on their page and that has became a back link for me .

Here is the link for the page that i get back link: http://www.brandigg.de/nachname/Burns

I don't think this page has a pure link coming to my site but My questions is that does twitter or facebook feeds give back links?

If they are backlinks then are they considered as spam links? I am also trying to recover from penguin update, I was wondering if this could be the reason for my Penguin hit or not.

Thanks for any input in advance,

Seda

[mblsolutions]

Hi Seda

I have just been doing some research on the passing of link juice from Twitter this morning and came across this article online. http://abertram.com/t-co-no-longer-passing-link-juice/ I have also read that Facebook links have 'no follows' attached to them.

Twitter/Facebook etc are really great for passing traffic to your website. With Opensite explorer showing how many facebook shares, Google +1 button etc then it would be important to keep encouraging genuine customers/clients to share and like the content that you provide on your website.

I would have thought that as long as the links were genuinely created by real Facebook/Twitter users then I wouldn't have thought that the links from Social Media would be a problem (as far as any Penguin penalties went). Any drop in search rankings is more likely to be because of links from websites that Google considers from bad neighbourhoods/link farms etc.

I hope that helps with some of your questions.

[Rubix]

Thank you Oliver,

I know shortened links have no link juice and i thought that pure links that are posted on social networks have no link juice either - except Google+ posts

The links are created on Social Networks, not exactly created by users, it's actually me posting them but i don't know how Social Networks feeds are considered as. Are they accepted as User Generated Links? If so, it should be ok but if not then i might have an issue

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi Sida,

Probably the links generated through those social network feeds have a really low authority as the pages they mostly created are just based with thin content en have no links to these pages as well. That's why I wouldn't bother about these links.

[Rubix]

Thanks Marijn, I won't disavow the links but I'll keep an eye on these links.