The problem first started when the nofollow tag was introduced. For example, links from a Facebook or Twitter homepage are nofollow, so we know they won’t pass pagerank.

Another factor is redirects, like Faceook Posts and Twitter Tweets. If you use a bit.ly link it’s obviously a redirect, but will that pass along any relevance?

We have a twitter app that we developed, and dealers that use it get an auto tweet sent out as each vehicle is added to their inventory. Our url is on each tweet from all of the dealers.

Keep in mind, this is a simple site we recently launched. There’s barely any links pointing to it yet it is killing it in the serps. It’s mind boggling to me, so I can’t help to think it’s coming from nofollow links from Twitter, or perhaps the Facebook Redirects.

I just want to add that this is a great blog, and I pass it along to any of my clients.

Paul, I think I just gave you a new blog topic! You seem savvy, so I would love to see your take on it.

You can remove this link before approving if you’d like, but I just want to show you an example of a dealer using our Twitter app: twitter.com/usedcarsorlando