: Are twitter backlinks counted We've recently had our website tweeted by a couple of bigish media outlets 0.5m+ followers, some of the links are our direct url, and some are t.co urls. From

@Fox8124981

According to Matt Cutt(Head of Webspam and SEO) yeah they count Social media backlink like from facebook and Twitter. they announced in 2010 that they do not but according to latest video on youtube [Does Google use data from social sites in ranking?1 he explained about this and maing sure they are having large followers and content are not auto generated.

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@Speyer207

Google is pretty vague when it comes to answering questions about Social Media and no one knows exactly how Google uses Twitter or any other social media platform in rankings but what has been confirmed is that Google does use social media signals and things that go viral on social media and get a buzz is often discovered by Google very quickly.

I would say that Google does not count them as Backlinks but adds authority and trust-ability to your site. The reason I say this is that within Google Webmaster Tools you only see one backlink and that is often from your profile and not from retweets or just tweets in general. This isn't to say they are not counted because its not confirmed they are or not counted, but based on what we can see as I said its unlikely.

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