Syndicating a link to your posts on an established Twitter account will help improve how quickly those pages get indexed, and they are also more likely to be kept in Google's main index (not in the dreaded supplemental) and will likely rank a bit better. If the content gets retweeted then the effect is even stronger. Obviously just spamming Twitter with your content is not the way to do it, but syndicating quality content, to a quality Twitter account will certainly help you. Twitter used to be very techie, but it is a lot more mainstream now and I've found plenty of tweeters in non-techie niches like fashion that are keen to read and retweet your posts.
but as for as i know, twitter links are no follow i have 15 twitter accounts almost 8 months old with combine followers of about 8000. i tried posting on twitter but i never got any advantage not even a single hit from twitter as well as no mentioning of these links in back links can you please explain i will really appreciate your help thanx
I dont think so that Twitter! does make any strong impact on SEO! personally i tested for same times it just brings you the traffic towards the Tweet
Yeah, actually I was just looking at this and it looks like the description of my twitter profile changes to show different tweets depending on what I am searching for. Kinda cool! I thought I heard that Google had a special relationship with Twitter for how it utilizes tweets. I love Twitter. It can be extremely frustrating and time consuming but I believe it is worth it. You don't always have to use your own content and retweeting others and setting up your Digg RSS stream can help depending your community. You can also plug your twitter feed into friendfeed, linkedin, and vbulletin forums (new installs).
I think submitting your post to various social bookmarking sites can help to index faster and not only in twitter.
Hi, yeah twitter is a social networking site not a back link source. its generate traffic only but i think fb is better than twitter.
@chris-tew: Wrong, I'm afraid. Exactly. Twitter links are no-follow which means search engines don't follow them - therefore they have no impact on your backlink count or how quickly you get indexed. They can indirectly generate backlinks (people find a link in a tweet they like & independantly blog about it - creating a dofollow backlink). Twitter's main strength is as a targeted traffic driver to your website.
For those that don't think Tweets help... I can only talk about what my own experiences have found, and I'm very certain that Twitter is improving indexing and increasing the likelihood of pages staying in the full index. Someone also did a more scientific study and the results indicated Twitter does improve indexing: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/using-twitter-for-increased-indexation There's also plenty of studies that show nofollow links do have an effect on indexing and rankings - so don't get too hung up on the nofollow issue. Search Google and you should find a few (I'm sure there's a couple on SEOMoz). What Google tells you and what Google really does are two different things. It is certainly in Google's interest to have you think Twitter has no effect on rankings when it does, as fewer people will try to manipulate that. My own experience has shown that even regular nofollow links count in some way. There's also the fact Google has a special relationship with Twitter: http://searchengineland.com/google-twitter-have-a-deal-too-28258 That doesn't prove they treat Twitter's nofollow URLs differently, but there's the possibility they have access to tweet data and use it to help improve their index, and data from Twitter would certainly help them do that. Of course if your own experiences tell you different go with that, I can only share what I have found.