How Facebook Will Be Good SEO (For A Few)
If you have 1,000 fans on your Facebook profile and your profile was active before May 1, 2009 you might see a boost in your Facebook profile page in the search engines real soon. As Greg Sterling reports on his blog Screenwerk, the social networking leader is planning to turn some of those dynamic profile URLs into static URLs for the user’s own name.
Did you catch the hitch? You had to have been active on Facebook prior to May 1, 2009 and have 1,000 or more fans. Well, that pretty much cuts out the small businesses, right?
But if you are big enough to have 1,000 fans then I’m betting that your Facebook profile is about to get a big boost in the search engines and become more effective for SEO, particularly Google, for your name. It will become a major factor in search engine reputation management for those profiles that meet the new criteria.
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That 1000 fans thing IS a huge hindrance to “normal” small business owners. I can’t imagine there will be a huge rush to get my business name and so can’t really understand why I can’t claim it!!!
Hi Tara – Yeah, I agree with you, hopefully Facebook will change this policy for small business owners…thanks for reading!