Welcome to the Treehouse Community

Want to collaborate on code errors? Have bugs you need feedback on? Looking for an extra set of eyes on your latest project? Get support with fellow developers, designers, and programmers of all backgrounds and skill levels here with the Treehouse Community! While you're at it, check out some resources Treehouse students have shared here.

Looking to learn something new?

Treehouse offers a seven day free trial for new students. Get access to thousands of hours of content and join thousands of Treehouse students and alumni in the community today.

Start your free trial

Business

jsdevtom
jsdevtom
16,963 Points

Do social media plugins increase SEO? Are they crawlable?

My clients often post their content to facebook or twitter and don't want to publish the same content twice. Therefore, if I were to add a plug-in like the one linked below to their site, would search engines rank the site higher for 'freshness' and updated content if my clients were to post regularly to their facebook page and consequently, by use of this plug-in, their website?

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/page-plugin/

Thanks

2 Answers

Casey Ydenberg
Casey Ydenberg
15,622 Points

It's doubtful Google will treat the embedded parts of the page as fresh content ... depending on how the plugin works it may not even crawl the embedded regions at all.

jsdevtom
jsdevtom
16,963 Points

Thank you for your answer :-)