Comments on: Facebook SEO – Grayhat SEO in Practice?

By: RSE FB

RSE FB — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:45:54 +0000

Facebook greyhats, eh… Would that work?
Gotta experiment with some of that… ^_^

By: Atechnocrat

Atechnocrat — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 06:52:49 +0000

Could that possibly work!? *shudders*

By: Glynn Rieckhoff

Glynn Rieckhoff — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:24:55 +0000

Great post and very interesting! Thanks

By: James

James — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 05:36:05 +0000

I noticed those Wikipedia pages on Facebook when they rolled out community pages, I think it is highly unfair I mean if you own a website and you take content from Wikipedia you will get hit very very hard by SERP’s but Facebook seems to do what they want. You think with the traffic Facebook has they could 1000’s of employ community writers to make unique content for specific subject areas, I am sure people would do it for free.
Of course Bing will favor any thing Facebook does as they have deep connections with link data sharing and other things.
Also all those pages which have no content just a UGC heading is something that also should be looked at by search engines, I mean people hate eHow but at least a human has made the page on eHow and pumped out some content for it, it is not just a random heading which is riding off domain authority and internal linking.

Facebook would also be well aware of SEO, I am sure they have a few highly SEO minded guys in the team

By: Depesh

Depesh — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:22:27 +0000

another quality post, you’d pay decent whack for the types of research you do… who’s your agent?

on another note, how much does a site like facebook need such long tail searches? didn’t i read somewhere that facebook will become the internet? that facebook will have everything anyone ever needs? anyway the scraping of wikipedia is interesting, reminds me of mahalo which matt cutts said was a content aggregator or some other BS and not a content farm so was legit so facebook could state a similar case. In fact I’m going to copy the entire internet for my next web project, I have bought the domain http://internet.com that’s me on the front page too

By: David

David — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:33:28 +0000

Outside of the community pages i’m still weighing up the risks of using a Fanpage and growing it’s audience and number of backlinks just not using keyword friendly links.
The interesting point is that I have set the default landing page to an application tab http://www.facebook.com/THELOSTAGENCY?v=app_150256405419

In Bing the #3 result is
http://www.facebook.com/THELOSTAGENCY

In Google #6 result has also dropped
http://www.facebook.com/THELOSTAGENCY?v=app_150256405419

This would show that Bing is far better and crawling and understanding Facebook pages and Google is just able to see the standard landing page, it used to rank the primary page higher before I started using a custom tab as the landing page. The issue is that if you are pushing Google to rank your Fanpage higher you should consider using the Wall tab as the landing page and not a custom tab.

By: AJ Kohn

AJ Kohn — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:16:24 +0000

Really nice analysis and great examples. I often wonder if the left hand knows what the right is doing at Facebook.

The Community Pages seem like they’re in direct competition with the Like button and Open Graph – if you believe that the latter is the way in which Facebook is going to compete with Google on search. (I am one of those believers.)

These Community Pages feel a bit like Google’s failed Knol. It didn’t work for Google and I can’t see why it would work for Faceboook either.

By: rishil

rishil — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:15:07 +0000

Lol. I think “Gray”hat is the universal spelling – our American friends beat us to the punch on that…

By: David

David — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:13:20 +0000

I was trying to read your blog post, but I couldn’t understand this word “Gray” what does it mean? Not English that’s for sure

P.S. Great post!

By: rishil

rishil — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:03:19 +0000

Of course I would