Will Google Friend Connect Help With Your SEO?

by Nick Stamoulis
Google recently announced the social application that it has been promising for some time called Google Friend Connect. It allows for ordinary sites to become membership sites and make them more social. It seems that anyone can now have a social website - like Facebook or MySpace.


Google Friend Connect isn’t the first to come out with this service. Facebook beat them by a few days. And I know that Facebook profiles are very good at appearing on page 1 of the SERPs for the users. It makes me wonder if Google Friend Connect will be good for search engine optimization.

I don’t see why it wouldn’t. I mean, it would be really sad if it wasn’t. The No. 1 website offering a service to all webmasters everywhere without any SEO benefits. How cruel would that be? Anyway, I’m just waiting to see who puts Google Friend Connect to good use and report back the results. Is it good for search engine marketing? I think time will tell.