Are the links on these social networks "no-follow" or not?

[Sean Quinn]

Are the links on these social network websites "follow" or "no-follow"?

1. Twitter?
2. Tumblr?
3. Google Plus?
4. YouTube Video Descriptions?
5. LinkedIn?

The links in shares, posts, etc. people make and in the video descriptions on YouTube.

 

[JewishPoptart89]

What?

 

[Sean Quinn]

When people put links to websites on their website, some are "follow" links and some are "nofollow", are the links that link to external websites on the afore mentioned social networks "nofollow" or "follow". :yum:

 

[JewishPoptart89]

When people put links to websites on their website, some are "follow" links and some are "nofollow", are the links that link to external websites on the afore mentioned social networks "nofollow" or "follow". :yum:

I've never heard of this before!

Could you explain a little bit more?

 

[Sean Quinn]

If a link to your website on another website has the "nofollow" tag / attribute on it, then you done get benefit from it in terms of improving your search engine ranking, etc.. :yum: That is 1 sentence tho, im sure there is plenty more to it in terms of the whys and how it works. :yum:

 

[JewishPoptart89]

If a link to your website on another website has the "nofollow" tag / attribute on it, then you done get benefit from it in terms of improving your search engine ranking, etc.. :yum: That is 1 sentence tho, im sure there is plenty more to it in terms of the whys and how it works. :yum:

Ah, gotcha.

 

[jyy]

I this stuff is irrelevant to social media. The bottom line is that social media helps SEO - regardless of do/no follow.

If a link to your website on another website has the "nofollow" tag / attribute on it, then you done get benefit from it in terms of improving your search engine ranking, etc..

In most cases, do-follow is the way, but that whole scene of no/do follow seems to be an obsession of the past - back when blog commenting, now seen as spam, was in vogue.