Twitter Games Are Fun and Educational
Posted 12-18-2010 at 02:50 PM by tpw
I posted a thread to the WF Adsense SEO Sub-Forum earlier today to announce an article where Danny Sullivan verified that Google and Bing are in fact tracking Twitter and Facebook and giving "some" SEO value to links placed there, regardless of whether the link carries NoFollow or not.
I have long suspected Google and Bing would play this way, but the Sullivan article verified the information for me for the first time.
That thread can be seen here:
Danny Sullivan Confirms SEO Value in Twitter and Facebook, According to Google/Bing.
Now that got me thinking about playing Twitter games.
Let me throw up a quick test that is pure, but one that is also funny.
So I set up a Tweet on my Twitter account (@contentmanager) and posted something that I first verified would not have any search results.
I chose to do it in such a way that I would be able to pick on one of my WF friends, whom you may know (View Profile: Zeus66).
In the process, I set up this Tweet:
Twitter / Bill Platt: Do you know how to play Twitter Games ...
Then I set a few social bookmarks at other sites to link back to that Tweet.
Then my buddy Dan Rinnert (View Profile: Dan C. Rinnert) set up a short post on his blog (http://www.dcrblogs.com/), also pointing to Twitter, but with my target keywords in the link and the short url in the link.
Dan beat me into Google for my keywords, 15 minutes after the test began:
Believe. Act. Achieve! - dcr Blogs dot Com » Blog Archive » What’s Worse…
I am now using this blog post to link back again to Twitter, with the goal of getting my pure keywords recognized by Google in its SERPs, for my Tweet.
Once the results are in for the Twitter post, I will edit this blog post to share the gory details with you about my target keywords.
Check back soon for the final results.
Within one minute after the creation of this blog post, Google had it in its archives.
A few minutes later, Dan also tweeted using the original target keywords here:
Twitter
Then Dan chased that with another blog post serving as another leg in the mininet and pointing to the new tweet: Believe. Act. Achieve! - dcr Blogs dot Com » Blog Archive » I Tweet, Therefore I Am
At 4:03 pm, I made a post to my Facebook wall (Welcome to Facebook), documenting this test with the inclusion of my keywords and a link to the tweet -- one hour and one minute after setting up the Tweet.
Of course this blog post is setting a mininet for this process.
Dan's blog post just hit #1 in Bing for the target keywords without quotes, whereas, it is only a clean shot in Google with quotes. Dan's blog is bouncing around Google between page one and page six for the keywords without quotes and so far he sits alone for the keyword phrase with quotes.
At 4:17, Lee Dobbins (View Profile: cashcow) retweeted my original tweet here:
At 4:27pm, I tweeted this blog post.
At 4:32pm, I set a Delicious bookmark for this page here:
karmaonline's Bookmarks on Delicious
At 4:35, Dan had #2 in Google for the search keywords without quotes.
We are still waiting for Twitter and Facebook to get crawled and indexed.
I have long suspected Google and Bing would play this way, but the Sullivan article verified the information for me for the first time.
That thread can be seen here:
Danny Sullivan Confirms SEO Value in Twitter and Facebook, According to Google/Bing.
Now that got me thinking about playing Twitter games.
Let me throw up a quick test that is pure, but one that is also funny.
So I set up a Tweet on my Twitter account (@contentmanager) and posted something that I first verified would not have any search results.
I chose to do it in such a way that I would be able to pick on one of my WF friends, whom you may know (View Profile: Zeus66).
In the process, I set up this Tweet:
Twitter / Bill Platt: Do you know how to play Twitter Games ...
Then I set a few social bookmarks at other sites to link back to that Tweet.
Then my buddy Dan Rinnert (View Profile: Dan C. Rinnert) set up a short post on his blog (http://www.dcrblogs.com/), also pointing to Twitter, but with my target keywords in the link and the short url in the link.
Dan beat me into Google for my keywords, 15 minutes after the test began:
Believe. Act. Achieve! - dcr Blogs dot Com » Blog Archive » What’s Worse…
I am now using this blog post to link back again to Twitter, with the goal of getting my pure keywords recognized by Google in its SERPs, for my Tweet.
Once the results are in for the Twitter post, I will edit this blog post to share the gory details with you about my target keywords.
Check back soon for the final results.
Within one minute after the creation of this blog post, Google had it in its archives.
A few minutes later, Dan also tweeted using the original target keywords here:
Then Dan chased that with another blog post serving as another leg in the mininet and pointing to the new tweet: Believe. Act. Achieve! - dcr Blogs dot Com » Blog Archive » I Tweet, Therefore I Am
At 4:03 pm, I made a post to my Facebook wall (Welcome to Facebook), documenting this test with the inclusion of my keywords and a link to the tweet -- one hour and one minute after setting up the Tweet.
Of course this blog post is setting a mininet for this process.
Dan's blog post just hit #1 in Bing for the target keywords without quotes, whereas, it is only a clean shot in Google with quotes. Dan's blog is bouncing around Google between page one and page six for the keywords without quotes and so far he sits alone for the keyword phrase with quotes.
At 4:17, Lee Dobbins (View Profile: cashcow) retweeted my original tweet here:
At 4:27pm, I tweeted this blog post.
At 4:32pm, I set a Delicious bookmark for this page here:
karmaonline's Bookmarks on Delicious
At 4:35, Dan had #2 in Google for the search keywords without quotes.
We are still waiting for Twitter and Facebook to get crawled and indexed.
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