There has been an ugly rumor going around, started by some very large companies in fact, that Google cannot crawl Face book pages.
As many of you know, Google has had problems crawling JavaScript and Ajax in the past. There are of course modifications you can make to help get this type of online content indexed, but you have to make the effort. Furthermore, there are really two categories of JavaScript and Ajax. There is JavaScript that once activated generates index able content on the page and that when activated simply modifies the index able content. It is really the activation that has been the problem for Google.
For example, the Zuan Technologies Face book page has plenty of great content on their new Face book Business Page Time line, but turn off JavaScript and visit the page and this is what you get.
As you can see, all of the posts are now missing due to turning off the JavaScript.
Can Google Crawl Face book
So can Google crawl the content on the new Face book Business Page Timelines? We believe so. First, let’s take a look at a post by Matt Cutts.
“Google bot keeps geeting smarter now has the ability to execute AJAX/Java Script to index some dynamic comment”
Can Google Crawl Ajax and JavaScript Matt Cutts
As we can see, back in November of 2011 Matt Cutts confirmed that the Googlebot has the ability to execute Ajax and JavaScript to index some dynamic content. We would assume that Google would do everything in their power to index Face book content. So it is pretty safe to believe that they are using these or similar abilities to index Face book pages.
Furthermore, any SEO can look at their back link profile in webmaster tools and see links from Face book pages.
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