: SEO - PageRank on Facebook pages, but pages have no back links to them? have a look at these two pages: 1) http://www.facebook.com/zvz.ro (PageRank 4 from Google toolbar) Amazingly it has got

@Angela700

Everyone who has a public profile has a crawlable and indexable page all of which link back to most facebook pages. I'm sure there are many pages and ways Facebook is choosing to let Google crawl.

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@Dunderdale272

From what I can see, internal links between (user) facebook pages are with nofollow, so the question remains: from where do facebook pages take pagerank?

My facebook page is www.facebook.com/zvz.ro , has a pagerank = 4 and I didn't make any link to it. Why does it have PageRank 4 ???

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@Gretchen104

Facebook pages have extensive internal linking and get a boost for social media. Every user that likes a particular fan page links to it off their profile info page. If a user's profile is marked as private it won't show up on yahoo's site explorer but will on google.

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@Sarah324

1) SiteExplorer is not Google so it can't tell you what links Google knows about. Google can, and often times does, know about more web pages and thus more links then Yahoo or any other search engine does.

2) Google's toolbar was known to guess at PR in the past and I have yet to hear of that not being true any longer. So it may be just a guess.

3) Internal links count to wards PR. Unless those pages are orphans, and they're almost certainly not, they're getting PR from other Facebook pages.

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