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Google+ posts are rated unsurprisingly much higher in Google results than Facebook posts.

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Facebook's robots.txt looks pretty restrictive:

http://facebook.com/robots.txt

Their sitemap doesn't even load for me.

(I don't use Facebook so I don't know how much this covers, but it's an interesting read compared to http://plus.google.com/robots.txt.)

   User-agent: *
   Disallow: /

Yep, pretty much everything.

Are Facebook posts even indexed? I don't recall ever seeing one. I just tried a few searches and can't find anything.

Is there even such a thing as a 'personal Facebook post that's public'? As you can tell I'm not a regular user...

Yes there is, it's just not included in search engines.

Any idea why? Are they linkable? Can you provide an example url?

I don't have a Facebook account, but you can search Twitter and find a lot of them. I suspect you would need to be logged in, even if they are public.

I don't think Google can even index most Facebook posts.

One of my SEO savvy friends was recently telling me that being reshared by high-authority profiles on Google+ is currently one of the best ways to get a massive boost in your google rankings.

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