Will Bing/Google's engine index a page that has only been on social media?
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Will Bing's engine index and rank a page that has only been seen on social media and has no inbound links? Will Google's?
Are inbound links absolutely required to get a page indexed and ranking and getting traffic?
If unknown, how would you go about testing this?
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Thank you. Do we know how Google is getting the Twitter data now that they no longer have access to the Twitter firehose/real time search data? Any ideas?
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True, as long as the page can be crawled by search engines, they will eventually find it.
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Will Bing/Google's engine index a page that has only been on social media?
Yes
External links are not required to have a web page indexed. One easy example is this Q&A. Copy the title "Will Bing/Google's engine index a page that has only been on social media?". Paste it into Google and search. You will find this Q&A is the first result, and it has no inbound links.
A web page will be indexed if it contains unique content and Google can find it, regardless of whether it has links.
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