Twitter for SEO purpose?

[Arav]

Is tweeted tweets has any impact on SEO? Can twitter be used for SEO purpose other than marketing?

[John Williamson]

Possibly for quick indexing of a site or page, but I'd think nothing much more.

[arnie19]

If it is a legit account and not bot, then using twitter will be good. However, it is a home of spammer so no value for me.

[StephanAdams]

Yes. Posting tweets and replies using the same URL across 10-20 twitter accounts can actually give you backlinks on different twitter status/trends websites. I`ve done it and it works. They will eventually fall off the homepage but you will still get the juice flowing.
Most important to keep in mind is that you have to automate the process , otherwise it will take forever to do it manually.
Use something like TweetAttacks ( if you have the budget)

[milapetersburg]

It's even more beneficial if you can have influential twitter users retweet your tweet. Just imagine by how much your tweet will be viewed and retweet if say an influential person on twitter having 1M following retweeted your tweets. It could poor a new trend on your tweet and can possibly contribute to your SEO campaign, having good amount and quality social media signals coming in to your site.

[paulgl]

Twitter is nofollow and any tweets on other pages will be some flash
or script. Not backlinks in either case by any stretch of the imagination.

If you need help getting your pages indexed, man, you are in far worse
trouble than twitter will ever solve.

Just because tweets may get indexed has no bearing on anything else.

This thread will be indexed. Does not mean the links will count, be seen,
or the pages they go to will get indexed.

Paul

[BenJackson]

Twitter undoubtedly affects SEO:

Google + Bing Confirm that Twitter/Facebook Influence SEO | SEOmoz
A Tweet's Effect On Rankings - An Unexpected Case Study | SEOmoz

I could post loads more...

I'm assuming they are looking at the number of followers a user has and how much retweeting a link gets rather than normal link metrics.

[Stussy]

Google has shown many times before that it DOES use twitter and other social media websites in its rankings. Think about it, if a new product is heating up it'd probably get a lot of twitter love, so naturally search engines are going to incorporate it partially into their rankings...that's not to say you can rank #1 just from twitter, but it certainly helps.

[JackiPhone]

No Twitter is not for SEO
because Twitter not provide back link, but after healthy follower you may get wonderful and target traffic from twitter.

[Dan Allard]

I have heard many times that Twitter does matter in SEO. Facebook would too but they have a huge gate around them and Google can't index many of the pages (individuals). But the people who say Twitter does matter all make a great point, it's not only about BACKLINKS! Google is much more complex than that, and either way you look at it social media is a great way to determine if something is high quality or not.

[Whos That Guru]

Originally Posted by JackiPhone

No Twitter is not for SEO

This is 100% wrong.

Say you have 10 Twitter accounts, each one with 5,000 followers.

Then you have a main account.

You tweet your link from your main account, and then re-tweet from those 10 accounts - instantly promoting your link to 50,000 TARGETED people.

On top of the insane amount of traffic it will bring in, it ALSO gives your link more authority in search engines. Why?

Because the more people there are tweeting about that link, the "better" the search engines think it is. PLUS, they are all "vouching" for that link, since it's a retweet.

Tweet Attacks has a re-tweet attacks module that is specifically FOR search engine optimization purposes.

So please, explain just how it is not for SEO?

[supershoesclub]

I do think twitter will give some link juice for nofollow backlinks.Coz google love the new tweets from the user.and if the user list their own website in profile.I think it will be helpful in seo.

[Whos That Guru]

Originally Posted by Ajaibnet

I don't think so !

[Kiosk]

There is definitely a reason to believe that all such micro blogging websites including Facebook and so on has considerable impact in optimisation process. Google not only considers backlink of a website but it has now become a more personalized and provide results considering number of facts. If you are logged in any of gmail ID and if those Id is either directly or indirectly connected with the promotion of any of links, you can very well watch those links shown ahead of rivals. Thus make very much clear that now optimization is not only concerned with backlinks but it is more than that.

[skele]

Noone can't say if this is already implemented in G's alghorithem, BUT if you think like G, you will find this TRUE in a long shot.

Imagine that you come to the town and there is noone on the street. You are hungry and you see 2 reustaurants. Infroint of one there are no cars, but the other has the parking almost full. Where do you go to?

This is called social proof. If others are doing something, it is supposed to be good. If vitrually EVERY important/famous business is posted on Twitter and yours is not? It's logical that something is wrong with you.

So, you should have links from Twitter as other important guys have. It doesn't matter if G counts it as a juice or something else. Is says something about you. Maybe this principle is not incorporated in search algorithm today, but it's a matter of time when it will be.

[seocatalysts]

It will help you for indexing as well as promoting your business and brands with your followers...

[rajyenranjan]

Well any Social Media marketing done for SEO is not a good use of your SEO time. However if you're in the discovery of new sales channel mode then Social fits. I agree it is time consuming but... if you read stuff every day and incorporate it with that then you are actually multi tasking and benefitting from that time reading

[umrbd]

Twitter does not contribute directly in improving your ranks but it do contribute in an indirect way. If you have reasonable number of followers people are retweeting your tweets and you are getting mentions that your site's authority will increase. Increase in authority is directly proportional to ranks of website

[Rollmodl]

You can use Twitter for SEO by obtaining backlinks from the Twitter url with a custom anchor text.

[arongiles]

I believe twitter also has seo benefits.

[barbling]

Yes. You can definitely use Twitter for superb SEO results.

Kurt on the Warrior Forum is the guy to follow - he wrote:

The EASIEST Way Ever To Get On Google's First Page - Guaranteed!

There's nothing about SEO that Kurt does not know. Highly recommended.

[bastion]

twitter is great for building your list of followers. Using twitter you get one very important thing - targeted traffic.

But, using twitter for creating just backlinks is waste of time, there are much batter ways to do it.

[perfect]

Twitter is only method I use for some months now in promoting one of my sites and I'm getting a positive response in serp. What I don't know if any of works I did last year influence this.

[addyj672]

Twitter is helpful in getting good amount of traffic to your website whereas it helpful in indexing your website. I think it also improve the reputation of your website, The online reputation of website...

[ankushkohli]

Wow.... Learn lots of wonderful tips! And obviously, twitter help in SEO.

[yannabanana]

Twitter itself is a great SEO tool as well. Like most of the directories will ignore you if you are not OK with Twitter.

[seoresources747]

ya surely twitter play an important role in SEO.

it helps in getting a lot of traffic and increase your alexa rankings fastly.it helps in indexing your site fast.it helps for me and hope helps also

[pmsbuildtechconstruction]

To Increase the popularity of any website.

[therocsta]

Definitely helps with getting indexed quickly. If you use a plugin like twitter tools, then it also helps with getting picked up for long tails

[jebwrecker]

I agree, imo the only reason for this might be quick indexing. I really don't see it helping out with seo other then in that instance.

Originally Posted by John Williamson

Possibly for quick indexing of a site or page, but I'd think nothing much more.

[offshoredataentry]

Through twitter tips any organization or company can build up well-known links on various search engines.

[andrewsmith24]

Ya sure did Twitter is very helpful for SEO buy following a large number of people you can get targeted traffic on your web site helps you increase your alexa page rank get your website index fast.

[EugeneS]

Twitter is one of the best social networking sites that can be use as a marketing tool to get a lot of traffic for your site. Just be active and be popular on this site.

[powerofschool]

Twitter is one of the best source for Seo

Some Tips for Seo using Twitter.


Writing Intial characters in tweets are really important. It is very important for Seo. That is first 40 characters will be important. So try to write keyword rich tweets if possible.
If you get more retweets, it really impact for your site in Seo.
If your site so long, use bit.ly or any other shorter url sites to make your url shorter.

You need to make use of bio count in twitter. Optimize your twitter page Bio likes. There it will be phrases for your brand name. That bio will be indexed and that provide your twitter page with its core relevance.

[Kevin pitt]

Twitter is helpful to marketing your site and increase business.it can improve traffic if you have followers and they visit.apart from that no backlinks.it helpful to get indexed faster on goggle and increase page rank also.

[morc3x]

I can confirm. It's great for quick indexing. It sends a google bot on your tweeted site in 3 seconds. Other than that it probably doesn't have any long term effect.

[Gooplex]

Originally Posted by Arav

Is tweeted tweets has any impact on SEO? Can twitter be used for SEO purpose other than marketing?

Twitter is Nofollow. It doesn't provide you backlink so help in SEO but yeah it's a very helpful tool to build brand presence and get targeted traffic

[HorseStall]

Originally Posted by John Williamson

Possibly for quick indexing of a site or page, but I'd think nothing much more.

Yes it is an easy way to get pages indexed but it does not have much staying power.

[vikramd]

This is a confusing topic and the only way to settle it is for someone to do the case study.

My thinking is that twitter will help you with "social search rankings":

Official Google Blog: Introducing Google Social Search: I finally found my friend's New York blog!

Twitter can also help you get on page 1 for topics that are "trending".

I'm not sure how many people really care about "social search" or these flash in the pan "trends".

If someone has actually gotten a keyword (like say 'how to train a dog') onto page 1 with no-follow Twitter backlinks I'd love to see it.


I read an interesting article that said that both Yahoo Answers & Twitter were no-follow but had a special feed for data into Google where the links were actually do-follow.

While it sounded somewhat kooky that this would happen it did some feasibly (it was a XML feed of site data).

I don't have a link to that anymore but it's pretty obvious to me that if you want to get a page indexed quickly than either of these sites will do it within a minute.

[sureshtechendeavour]

I think Twitter will not help you in getting SERP results but for indexing faster it is very helpful.

[lovboa]

I opened my twitter account for my niche site about a month ago and now have about 60 followers.

One thing...how do these followers convert to traffic? I don't think I got even 1 visitor who clicked on my link on my twitter page.

[LynnGaines2011]

Very interesting read here. Taking advantage of social media can really have an effect - if not make a huge dent - of where you want your website to be.

[stellaandreapark]

Twitter continues growth in the industry of social media marketing is getting even stronger every day, which is why SEO experts have seen the potential of using Twitter for marketing.
Participating in very active conversations enables you to potentially communicate first hand with millions of users. You can use these conversations to share information, give advice and occasionally incorporate your website as a useful resource means a bigger chance of having people to visit your site.

[BezVrska]

Twitter can be great for quick results only. You can use it with cpa

[Goath]

I did a test with a product of mine. I sold it for a tweet. I got 1000 tweets in the first week. I went from #5 to #3 on a highly competitive keyword, but after the "buzz" I dropped to #4. So a powerful Twitter campaign means you will need a constant flow of tweets, if not, it's better to not start with it.

Google HATES Facebook. I don't believe they count Facebook. Maybe they do, but they don't care a lot about Facebook (they give them low weight)

[OmarNegron]

I would guess the best thing it is for is for social media marketing and bringing traffic to your website through the twitter site itself from your following.

Haven't seen it do much for my websites for an SEO purpose though.

-Omar

[awj888]

you can add a link to your twitter profile that has value, otherwise twitter in terms of SEO is only good for fast indexing. All links posted in tweets are 'nofollow' -
can you imagine if you just had to post links on twitter for SEO? the (already tons) amount of spam would be unmanageable. You could litereally open 1000s of twitter acounts and have them building links for you all day long. >> doesnt work that way <<

hot tip though - twitter accounts are good to rank with, so if i you have a good one you can build links to it and rank that along side your money sites! - (you can also make multiple profiles with the profile link pointing to your site (however they do not have much PR if not any to speak of!)

[dagaul101]

I think with Twitter you have to let your followers know that you are a real person, and ofcourse you can choose a Twitter name that matches the keyword you are trying to match, but there is a school of thought that this just makes you look spammy

[papacuppa]

Search Engines are moving more and more towards Social Media - how can they not.

Obviously they are aware of manipulation so you've got to make quite a dent before you get any real leverage - that's where retweeting comes into play!

Google also takes into consideration the authority of Twitter accounts that tweet/retweet. So that's the number of followers someone has, age of the account, and even how many times their tweets are retweeted - if they can get that information.

For larger websites I use Twitter for authority and Social Media presence. For smaller websites I use Twitter for indexing purposes, with the following FREE tools:

- OnlyWire
- Ping FM
- PixelPipe

As I said, they're free BUT they take a long arse time to setup up - you basically create accounts with Social Media websites and then blast updates to all websites you have an account with, simultaneously.

As an extra, I do my day's tweetin' for 20 minutes in the morning by scheduling tweets through Tweetdeck!

[Adie Jones]

There is certainly reason to believe that all these micro-blogging sites, including Facebook and so on, is of great importance in the optimization process. Google does not only backlink from a website, but it has now become a more personal and show results, given the number of facts. If you are connected to a Gmail ID and Id is directly or indirectly involved in the promotion of one of the links, you can very well see those links that appear in front of his rivals. This makes it very clear that now the optimization is not just backlinks, but more than that.