Twitter and Backlinks

I had a quick question about Twitter and backlinks. When you post links to your website to Twitter, is that a solid backlink for your site? I ask because when I check my backlinks, I never see Twitter. I know social networks are supposed to be great for backlinks, but I never see them when I check. I see A LOT of DP though.

 

If twitter backlinks start showing and giving weight too.. buddy you would find craziness in google SERPs..
Twitter, all that there backlinks have nothing, and they are not shown in googles at all..

 

Twitter is no follow.

 

Nope, Twitter backlinks are useless.

However, Twitter can be leveraged to get you backlinks. When people retweet your links a certain percentage of the people viewing it will not only retweet it, but add it to their blog or post it in a forum, which creates backlinks.

For your profile link, you should always link your main site. Quite a few people will click that and go there. As far as deeper page links, they can still get backlinks indirectly.

 

Thanks for the great info everyone.

 

Twitter give no follow links and may be helpful in generating website traffic only.

 

Sorry guys - your wrong. I have backlinks from Twitter that show up in the SERPs. It may be in a small niche - but they do get indexed by google.

 

Google does have the Current Trends in the search area, which includes results from Twitter - This does not result in increased PageRank, but it does attract traffic.

If you use Bit.ly, you can actually see how many people follow the link...this might be a good indicator as to whether it's even worth your time to do it.

 

I too have seen twitter back links show up, but never seen any improvement in ranking as a result... good luck!

 

they are kind of useless

 

I have a backlink from Twitter to my sites. Does that mean, as my twitter is PR5 that it will eventually pass PR to my sites that currently recieve a backlinks from it?

 

sorry for stupid question!!! but how you add your link to twitter? on your profile? tweet ?

 

You can add your website link to your Twitter profile. Other than that, you can tweet links as well. Those are the only two ways that I know of. There are couple of Twitter directories that I know of as well. One of them is Twibs.com. It's a Twitter business directory. Also, you can use Twtwall as well and add whatever you want including ads.

 

Hi, for those who has listed their sites in twitter, whats the status? is it do follow or no follow?
Thanks

 

Twitter Links are with no follow tag so you can not expect back links but if you have post good stuff in public interest then there is high chances of having traffic.

 

twitter gives no follow link only, so it won't helps in back link but you can get some traffic from there

 

great share...so its not use twitter backlink ?? so whats the advantage ?

 

Twitter can give you backlinks, yes. I do mean it.with Twitter you can still manage to get quality traffic and link juice (which we believed didn’t happen) if you have the quality.If assuming you have great content, this is how you can manage to get some good backlinks with Twitter.

Home Based Jobs

 

Thanks for the info

 

Twitter doesn't seem to give link credit, however, we find it useful for generating a web presence. It also generates bona-fide visits to our website.