Twitter May Have Some SEO Value After All
June 7, 2011
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Twitter May Have Some SEO Value After All
If you are a regular around here you might have noticed that I am not a big fan of using this micro blogging service. As evidenced by my opening line which goes 117 characters long I don’t do Readers Digest condensed version of anything well.
So the constraints of 140 characters is very a challenge for me. But my disdain for Twitter goes much deeper than that. I like useful relevant information. So what someone had for lunch or what they did last night is meaningless for me.
Originally, I thought it would be a good idea for follow some other individuals and companies that are also providing SEO services. The problem with this idea is that when I followed links from these Tweets, it was mostly just noise.
It seemed that everyone that I was following was tweeting almost anything related to SEO. Most of this information was a waste of time for me. I wasn’t getting the fresh information that I desired.
As for the SEO side of me, that is really where I see little value in using Twitter. The links that are provided on Twitter are no follow links so they don’t help in the search rankings. I tend to only use sites that provide Do Follow links for obvious reasons.
I also observed that my Twitter traffic bounced 100% of the time. That means these visitors came, they looked around, and within 20 seconds they were gone. So I figured why bother. That was until today.
I read a comment on Bruce Clays website that made me rethink my position on Twitter. The writer indicated that yes Twitter links are No Follow. But they noted that when they are re-tweeted they may appear as Do Follow Links.
The problem that I have with this idea is that well this is true, Twitter links still don’t provide anchor text links. Twitter re-tweets still will only provide a generic website link. However, That is just enough of a reason to give Twitter another look.
I also am planning on using Twitter in an upcoming video marketing campaign. So it might benefit me to acquire a few more followers. I have already set up profiles on several hundred sites that allow Twitter feeds to be used. So the plan is to connect as many of these sites as possible.
It should be an interesting adventure.
What say you?
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Comments
3 Responses to “Twitter May Have Some SEO Value After All”
Yes twitter links are no-follow but twitter is a best site for driving more traffic to your website. Twitter has millions of online users, it is very effective for more traffic generation.
yes twitter has provided a lot of help for SEO purposes. you can have a lot of leads and a good targeted traffic you just have to get a good number of followers…
Twitter is good for SEO but there are so many SEO, individuals and Companies using the power of Twitter, How do we stand out? An article about that would be helpful