12 June 2009

SEO Tip #3: Using Twitter

Posted by: Mark Cook in SEO Tips

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Today's SEO Tips entry was via Aaron Hall at AaronHall.com.

"Links in Twitter are no-follow, offering little search engine benefit. But people still click them, helping build a site's readership."

Aaron rightly points out that while Twitter links are nofollowed, you have an opportunity to get your content in front of the eyeballs of potential linkers. Reaching out to new(ish) platorms can get you in front of early adopters/adapters, who are likely tech-savvy and interact with blogs, forums and various social media platforms. If you've written good unique content, this powerful combination means you're highly likely to attract links and as we all know, links are a vital step in achieving competitive rankings.

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Previous SEO Tips:

SEO Tip #2: Create Unique Content
SEO Tip #1: Stop! Keyword Research


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Trevor

nice tip, I read his seo book but this tip wasn't in it

Comment posted 12.06.09 @ 21:31

I think you might be thinking of Aaron Wall from SEObook.com

Aaron Hall is someone else :)

Comment posted 30.06.09 @ 01:16

I understand that links on Twitter are nofollow but they ARE crawled. I use a plugin called 'Pretty Link' on my site - to shorten URLs for posting to Twitter (rather than using bit.ly etc) - and the stats show the links are heavily crawled, particularly by googlebot. I'm wondering if the nofollow attribute is redundant or simply being ignored.

Comment posted 17.09.09 @ 14:02

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