How Google Rates Links From Twitter and Facebook
Google’s Matt Cutts recently gave the definitive word on how Google rates links from Twitter and Facebook in organic searches (as opposed to live search). Here’s the video:
How Google is Ranking Tweets
WebProNews reported today the first solid information on how Google is ranking tweets. Three major things were mentioned:
- Tweets are ranked by how many followers someone has along with how reputable those followers are. (Good)
- Google is able to sift through tweets, even on popular subjects, to find the freshest information (Good)
- The use of #Hashtags is considered spam-like behavior (what?)
I agree and commend Google for the first two but I really don’t agree Read more