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Do Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, MySpace and other soclai networks that have profile status update or tweets (kinda, what are you doing now?) give opportunity for backlinks?
Especially interested in Twitter as URLs are shortened to tiny ones.

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Short answer: social updates and profile links are useful for discovery and traffic, but they’re not the same thing as an editorial backlink that moves ranking power. Search engines now treat link qualifiers like rel="nofollow", rel="sponsored" and rel="ugc" as signals or “hints” rather than strict on/off switches, so the raw SEO value of most social-post links is limited and depends on how platforms mark and handle those links. (webmasters.googleblog.com)

That explains why this thread has split views: was right to warn about limited direct SEO value, and / were also right that social drives traffic and measurable clicks. Google and others make clear social metrics aren’t used as straightforward ranking boosts — but public social content can still appear in search and it helps people (and journalists, bloggers, podcasters) discover your work, which often leads to the editorial links that do matter. (semrush.com)

Practical playbook (short): treat social as amplification, not a link farm. 1) Use profile links and a compact “link-in-bio” hub as a persistent, indexable doorway to your best content; 2) publish one genuinely linkable asset (data, guide, tool, case study), promote it socially, then follow up with targeted outreach to authors who saw or shared it; 3) monitor unlinked brand mentions and ask for a citation→link (this is low-friction link reclamation that scales). Also note platforms wrap links (for example, X/Twitter routes URLs through its t.co wrapper), so expect redirects and trimmed display URLs when you share. (ahrefs.com)

Checklist to act on now: confirm which profile fields on each network are crawlable/indexed; add UTM tags to social links so you can measure referral value; set alerts for brand mentions and prioritize outreach to high-quality domains. Caution: don’t buy engagement or chase vanity metrics — use social to be found, then convert that attention into editorial links and owned content that search engines reward.

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Member Avatar for InsightsDigital

Twitter provides a great opportunity for backlinks. A great way to track these shorten urls is by using bit.ly since it provides you with traffic data.

Member Avatar for IdeaAlex

Thank you very much Insights for the insights :-)

Member Avatar for Devanshu

It depends on how many times your link is clicked and retweeted or shared with more and more number of peoples as search engines gives more value to those links.

Member Avatar for phoenix06007

when someone twits on y blog it always end up on my backlinks.

Member Avatar for articlemaster9

Twitter provides a great opportunity for backlinks. A great way to track these shorten urls is by using bit.ly since it provides you with traffic data.

Sorry but cant agree with you. Twitter Is good for getting traffic but cant help in building backlinks. Twitter is simply a nofollow site which cant contribute in building backlink except providing traffic.

Member Avatar for IdeaAlex

Hm... seems to be contrary opinions.
Ok, what about Facebook and other social networks?

Member Avatar for MktgRob

Twitter provides a great opportunity for backlinks. A great way to track these shorten urls is by using bit.ly since it provides you with traffic data.

Definitely use bit.ly. Tinyurl is nice but no traffic data.

Member Avatar for redesignunit

Yes tweeter is one of the best social site

Member Avatar for snapshot

All sorts of one way backlinks can be great, even from the Nofollowed resources because they still are links but will not pass PR.

Since Twitter pages can have the potentials to get visited by many people, the quality sites and profiles would gain many links.

Member Avatar for johnvitc

social networking is quite attarctive , but the point is how u do it well
as we all know the traffic is often untargeted and they come and go fast

Member Avatar for rajeshrajub4u

Thanks for sharing..... :)

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Member Avatar for karol33

so now the question: twits or upgrade own sites, in my opinion tweeter is just another version of blogger or facebook

Member Avatar for quicktpgo

You can get backlinks. But we mainly use them to get traffic. ^^

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