Social Profile URL's

[jacksghost]

Should we add profile URL's from social web sites like:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/myname to the Sites list in Google
Webmaster Tools?

Should we add Blogger.com blog URL's there?

Thanks,
jg

[Vision Jinx (Guru)]

Hi,

Personally, I wouldn't if it's not a domain that you control. For ones
like blogger for example, they are often used for spam or site rings
and linking schemes etc and it can affect your sites quality and
reputation being associated with those sites/domains. Now Blogger may
be one of the few exceptions to that rule since it is a Google service
so I don't doubt they have some sort of exception rule on their
services to keep them from being affected (by competitors for example,
plus they know their services get abused at times), but they wont tell
you or share that info about ranking favoritism/exceptions. ;)

In general, webmasters can improve the rank of their sites by
increasing the number of high-quality sites that link to their pages,
where it does not take many from a less then reputable site to bring
your ranking down also.

I do know, I had a Gmail tips and tricks blog using Blogger (quite a
while back now) and I was linking to quite a few pages in Googles help
center (as reference for my tips) then my blog got flagged as a spam
blog as a result and my sites ranking tanked almost immediately (from
a 5 to a 2-1 as a result). Even though I got Google to review and
white list my blog that damage to my sites rank was already done.

Best advice though for the Blogger one (IMHO), is to set up the Blog
alias for it (more recent feature/ability), and create a DNS CNAME
record for myblog.mysite.com that resolves to ghs.google.com, this
should help dis-associate your site/blog from the blogger domain (and
use yours instead), in that case I would then probably add it to the
webmaster tools sites then.

Hope that helps,
Vision Jinx

On Apr 22, 12:30 pm, jacksghost <te...@aspwebpro.com> wrote:
> Should we add profile URL's from social web sites like:http://www.linkedin.com/in/mynameto the Sites list in Google

[Keith Myers]

I actually do not it is a bad idea as long as you moderate it. There
is a large potential that you can get ALOT of free trafic, there is
also the potential that you can get the wrong type of traffic

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Keith Myers
KMy...@K-Disk.com