Facebook Opening Profiles to Search Engine Indexing

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News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Story Found By: WaltVerastegui 1726 Days ago
Category: SEM

Looks like Facebook is lifting the gates within the next several weeks to search engines to index public profile pages of its users. You can change a privacy setting however if you do not wish for your Facebook profile to be indexed.

Thought this would catch some attention.

"I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate."
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from WebmasterT 1719 Days ago #

Votes: 0

Opening the profiles to SE’s is fine, however, optin rather than optout would be a better way to implement it. Like it or not there are probably 10’s of thousands of abandoned or spam profiles that don’t get included using the optin method.

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