Does the open site explorer crawler crawl FB?
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That is to say, where there are links on public FB pages, such as those on my own company's public profile to my company's website---can the crawler detect these, or is it simply not bothering to crawl FB because so much is private? I don't see any links from FB in the crawl results, and don't believe I ever have, even for very large brands' domains.
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Thanks Ryan for the great answer! We do have the new social features in Open SIte Explorer that display the Facebook shares, collected from their FQL API.
We are also in development of a new tool in the PRO app offering Social Analytics metrics. Here is Rand's blog post about it!
Hope that helps, but let me know if you have any more questions!
Thanks,
Carin
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OSE just added new social features to track Facebook shares and likes, tweets and +1s. Facebook has blocked Google from crawling any of their stuff, and a lot of it takes place behind the login firewall anyway - hence, Google+. Bing and Facebook have an agreement in place whereby you can see shares and likes from friends in Bing SERPs.
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