Comments on: Facebook Opening Profiles to Search Engine Indexing

By: brad hocutt

brad hocutt — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:42:06 +0000

HOW ARE YOU DOING ?

JOANN EDWARDS

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:27:51 +0000

How is this done? We run log-in social sites of a sort, but how would we give searchbots access? Don’t they just point blank ignore anything behind a password? Or can you ask them to crawl each page but amend the meta data to default to the ‘description’ text and not a sample of the (protected) text content?

By: Matt Keegan

Matt Keegan — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:20:50 +0000

Well, that stinks. Anyway, I dugg, sphunn, and stumbled this article. Yes, I left a comment too.

Can’t say I am happy with Facebook’s decision, but at least I can opt-out if I want.

By: Rose

Rose — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:20:06 +0000

What I find funny is that Facebook prides itself on being a safe haven for college students to socialize online. No one has mentions all the ‘teens’ on the site or the adult photos that are updated to strippers profiles than any teen has access too. Safe haven my butt.

By: ready4unow

ready4unow — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:13:57 +0000

It may cause many complaints due to users’ concern about their privacy. Last
year we opened our members’ profiles and within one or two days, we got lots of
complaints. We have to close them immediately. As a
millionaire dating site, you know, our
site need to pay much attention to this

By: Nate Moller

Nate Moller — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 06:24:50 +0000

One of my favorite things about facebook so far are the groups you can join and also create. What a perfect way to connect with your target audience indirectly, become friends, share ideas, etc. I run a website about Door County, Wisconsin that has seen tons of new visitors strictly because of facebook. Look forward to see what the indexing will do to traffic and page views.

By: robert

robert — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:25:19 +0000

This is awesome - those that are trying to optimize sites, like myself with my seo website ranking services, are just continue to expand the arsenal of authoritative links.

By: mark

mark — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:25:38 +0000

Well, I blocked it. :)

By: Mike Geeks.com

Mike Geeks.com — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:53:19 +0000

Wasn’t the ‘walled’ garden a nice feature??

Like the Vegas mantra….what happens in Facebook, stays in Facebook!!

By: Pablo Palatnik

Pablo Palatnik — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:25:18 +0000

Funny enough after reading this and commenting, I logged in Facebook and there it was…privacy options for search.