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Does Buying Facebook Likes Help Search Engine Rankings?

Bill Hartzer

I was offered 2,000 Facebook Likes for $60 today, from someone offering a service that allows you to buy Facebook Likes. According to this unsolicited commercial email (spam), getting more Facebook Likes will increase your search engine rankings. I’m even amazed that it has one Facebook Like. href=[link].

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Hide Facebook Profile from Search Engines

Ari Herzog

I am a Facebook oxymoron. Despite being friends with relatively few people on Facebook, anyone, friend or not, can read or comment on my wall. I allow the global Facebook community to find me, read my personal profile updates and comment when inspired; but I disable my profile from being indexed by search engines.

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Facebook vs Twitter (A Comparison)

The Marketing Blog

Home About In the Media Moving One Step Closer to Dream Indian Companies on Twitter – A Usage Study March 3, 2010.10:02 I was just testing uberVU , a paid social media analytics service for doing a comparison between Twitter & Facebook and the results that it shows are quite interesting to say the least.

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Meet Team Sprout: Shweta, Senior Software Engineer

Sprout Social

She has a knack for taking complicated data ideas and translating them in a way that her audience can understand, whether that is another engineer or a less tech-savvy person, such as myself. Name: Shweta Kapur Department: Engineering Started at Sprout: February 2017. I’m a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Ingest squad.

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Is Twitter Or Facebook More Influential In The SERPs?

Small Business Mavericks

Todd Mallicoat aka Stuntdubl recently fielded a series of SEO questions on Twitter. Next year, what will effect (sic) SERP’s (sic) more, Twitter or Facebook? As Rand points out, Google and Facebook aren’t exactly friends. However, Bing and Facebook have a much more friendly relationship.

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The Difference Between SEOs and Search Engine Marketers

Bill Hartzer

During a recent comment thread on Facebook by my buddy Steve Floyd , the subject of SEOs (Search Engine Optimization pros or “search engine optimizers”) and SEMs (Search Engine Marketers or “Pay Per Click professionals”) came up. It’s the way SEOs and Search Engine Marketers work.

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Facebook Privacy Gone Awry: Search Engines Indexing Email Addresses from Facebook

Bill Hartzer

Private email addresses of individuals who have Facebook accounts are getting indexed by the search engines, including Google , Yahoo! , There are certain web pages on Facebook, mainly the Facebook Email Opt Out web page, that are getting indexed by the search engines. and Microsoft’s Bing.com.