Does google cache the contents from facebook, twitter?

[johnlim9988]

Dear All,

Does google cache the cotents from facebook, twitter etc social media sites?

[tedster]

If you do a site: operator search, you will see "cached" links for many URLs. Not all, but that's common too.

[johnlim9988]

Yes, if I do site:facebook.com in google then I will see a lot of pages from facebook.com were cached.

But as I know, google have cache pages limit for every site, then as facebook have much more times of pages than google can cache.

Does it mean google will not cache for most of facebook pages?

[tedster]

There is Google's public cache (shown by the cached links) and then there is the copy of the URL they keep privately cahced after they crawl the page.

But I don't think we're talking about your real question right now. Are you asking about Facebook and Twitter URLs being kept in Google's active index? and then, potentially, showing up in the search results?

[johnlim9988]

Yes, Acturally I am asking if Facebook pages are Kept in google active index or not? And if such pages will be shown up in the search result or not.

If all are yes, then we can build very good facebook pages for SEO purpose.

[tedster]

There's little doubt that Facebook pages can rank on their own, at least for "branded" search. We also have a recent thread here where a member mentioned something intriguing - seeing social media attention alone being followed by increased rankings. This was for a product page that was 9 years dead.

[johnlim9988]

Hi, Tedster,

Could you tell the link of other relative thread?

Thanks.

[tedster]

I can't find the link easily - it was a comment in a thread, not its own topic. Here's the main idea.

The website had a page for a product that was nine years past it end-of-life. So the page was online but dead for quite a while. Some social media buzz started up (Hey, look at this cool old widget) and the page began to rank again - with no new "dofollow" backlinks and no changes to the page.