Is Twitter Useful for SEO?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by vikramkamboj, Aug 6, 2009.

  1. #1
    Just wondering if Twitter will be a good SEO tool to get traffic?

    Thanks!
     
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  2. unna

    unna Well-Known Member

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    #2
    every SMO site is good for SEO...

    but you need to have lots of freinds in these sites...
     
    unna, Aug 6, 2009 IP
  3. sam77am

    sam77am Well-Known Member

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    Yes, any social networking site is good if you have sufficient friends who can read your messages. Twitter is very good site to increase traffic if you can increase your friend circle there.
     
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    atniz Well-Known Member

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    Twitter is more useful to create buzz than SEO purpose. Get listening followers in your niche and it will help you get good traffic. Other than that, it don't really help you in SEO because all the links in Twitter are tagged with rel="nofollow"

    Plus, a nofollow link to the shortened URL does not directly contribute to your site either.
     
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  5. racheldcooley

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    #5
    Twitter is good for instant traffic but too many update can make you spammy. Actually Twitter is more famous for Mircoblogging.
     
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    Yes. Tweets will appear at the top of Google's search page for your desired keywords. Many companies wonder what is Twitter good for and how can they utilize this up-and-coming service. The possibilities of Twitter as a marketing tool are endless. Companies have been creating Twitter accounts lately to provide information on new products and services to customers. These tweets also provide a link that can be a key element to get new customers to check out their website. This is very useful to get people interested in their site as well as gain traffic.
     
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  7. justkidding

    justkidding Active Member

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    twitter is good for traffic but not for SEO. the links in twitter will not help you as they are nofollowed. I am not sure Dan says the mobile twitter has followed links. Not very sure, if that the case then that will help.
     
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    I'd agree most of the people here. It is very good for instant bursts of traffic, if you have a huge list of followers.
     
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    Yes because it will help you gather traffic
     
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    Yes y not... even many guyz working on twitter to get quality traffic by adding only related peoples... and with your quality updates you can achiev your goal easily... as far as i think.. well m too new so request other DP members to correct me if something wrong.. thnks
     
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    Twitter is not good for traffic, you'll get a trickle of traffic until you have 10,000+ followers which is a lot of work. And if you bot to get there, you'll most likely be banned by 1000 followers anyway.
     
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    I have many sites but never used twitter before but I think i should try it for my new site. I have heard some testimonials of my friends that twitter does add traffic:)
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    #13
    twitter gets you traffic so its good :)
     
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    I am using Twitter too but I have never got any good traffic. How can I use it for more traffic?
     
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    #15
    The only way you can get aback link from Twitter is by placing the url of your site to to your profile.

    Twitter is good for getting traffic to a site.
     
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    Actually you can turn twitter nofollow links into dofollow links using twitter aggregators that post your latest tweets on their sites.

    Usually as dofollow logs
     
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    ys twitter will definately help you in bringing traffic, but the thing is you need to be popular in twitter. you need to have a lot of friends in it and need to be interactive. don't overdo it or else it will be considered as spam. links provision in twitter is liberal so you can place links there, but those will be nofollow, that you need to keep in mind.
     
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    Its all about the number of followers you have, if you have a large no. then possibly you can tweet your website and can get some hits.
     
    Anand85, Aug 8, 2009 IP