Twitter as a website's #2 ranked linked page?
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A site I'm researching on open-site explorer has a #2 link with page authority of 52 and Domain authority of 97, and that link is the site's twitter page. No other sites I've researched have had their twitter page show up in it's link rankings like this, can someone explain?
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I would assume we would have results of some significance in the next month.
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YOUmoz might be a good place to write up those results, too!
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when do you expect to have the results of the experiment. It will be cool to hear the results.
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I keep noticing this plus the Youtube channel pages but my mind tends to discount them. I do however feel the trend towards social media having an effect is turning the tide.
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Indeed Mike, the question of just how much link juice no follow links pass is of interest to us all. Any plans to A/B test two sites rather than one?
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I think I speak for many when I share my enthusiasm towards hearing the results of your experiment Mike.
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Great answer Ryan! I would only add a small comment, that being that their is some evidence that no follow links can (and in the case of twitter and other social media) may pass Juice. We are running an experiment on a new site using 90% no follow to see the results.
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Great answer Ryan! I would only add a small comment, that being that there is some evidence that no follow links can (and in the case of twitter and other social media) may pass Juice. We are running an experiment on a new site using 90% no follow to see the results.
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A twitter page is like any other page. It can link to other pages and be linked to from other pages.
Since it's lunch time for me I will use the following example: http://twitter.com/#!/pizzahut
The Mozbar shows 189 linking domains to the page which gives it a PA of 73. It has over 60k followers and is a very legitimate page. If that page linked to another page, the link will appear in OSE.
With all the above understood, twitter's external links are nofollowed so the value of that link is minimal from a SEO ranking point of view.
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