Do the links from twitter mean i get any good SEO value. I see traffic but not sure with links.

As far as I'm aware, Twitter links are no-follow so you will get minimal to no SEO benefits. Twitter is really a traffic generator and marketing tool.

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Welcome aboard Iriad

I suppose you could argue there is indirect benefit, as you may generate backlinks, after someone has followed a tweet back to your site?

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I am with Steve on this one twitter is very good at keeping your brand visible.
when I have a slow day on the forum I can output a couple of content related tweets and I can generate 50-100 hits in minutes.

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Twitter has turned my business around, seriously, 2009 seen a steady stream of business but nowhere near where it needed to be, since hammering Twitter I have seen twice the traffic I normally see, with 24.92% of traffic coming from Twitter!

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25% of traffic from twitter is very good. You must have many good people who like listen to you

thankyou for the help

Twitter can play a huge part in making your website make or break online.

Twitter can be used with Wordpress to update everytime you make a post which if you are using a blog is perfect.

Although it has a no follow on the links it can still have a huge benifit and will play a huge part in 2010 for online marketing.

ahhh, but a lot of people are overdoing this. displaying meaningless tweets on your site is not a substitute for good old fashioned content, which is what a lot of people forget.

The basic rules are unchanged, have a quality resource, and traffic will come to you. Having interesting fresh content, then gives you something to tweet about.

90% of blogs are either out of date or full of gimicky auto content scrapers, because no one wants to write content any more

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I agree but what if you run a blog and update it 10 times a day? Twitter ap will then post them on Twitter allowing you to get unlimuted traffic and link backs.

How very true, people load up their API's with random quotes and links to old posts, if the blog is receiving regular content then that would work, but just how many people actually keep it up!

Blogs are great for content rich, SEO purposes, but they get forgetton way too much.

If you keep your twitter both personal and business like, it works just fine

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I disagree I am sorry but Twitter is a totally diffirent platform to your website for example

Say I ran an SEO Blog and I posted tips on that blog, Only people who knew the blog is there would see it but.

On my Twitter account say I have 1000 people following me and I post the link thats 1000 potential new customers and 1000 potential new people clicking my site which increases traffic and SEO.

I do agree though there is no point having a twitter update box on your website saying the last 5 things you put on Twitter as people already know cus they are on your website.

Well you can disagree all you want, lol.

513 Following 38 Followers 1 < But with those kind of stats you may want to rethink it, and do something that works, and I mean that in the nicest possible way, but Twitter has been a god send for me, in fact I would say it turned our company from earning, to racking it in.

By using it as a business tool you may slip up unless you make it personal too.

People are on Twitter to connect with each other, not to look for SEO tips, they do that on google, but once you have a personal relationship with someone there is more chance they will use your services, if they like what you offer and how you produce your work anyway.

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I'm not saying Twitter is bad I love it but it helps no matter what anyone says it helps.

People didn't think Facebook would help but how many people use it for there business?

I don't rank my Twitter to be honest it has a rank of 61/100 not great but I dont spend hours adding people and making friends I let them come to me

I keep blowing hot and cold with twitter, I've gone from cynical and anti, too pleasently surprised (mainly with a bit of help from our man Kip), but have recently relegated it to an auto tweet from this forum, mainly due to not having enough time.

But its interesting to occasionally logon, I average about 730 followers, it increases and decreases, but stays roughly about the same level. I seemed to have plateau'd

Disagree about facebook, we've tried it and got nothing. I think the audience arent as receptive to advertising as they are engaged in interacting with the actual site, as opposed to a more static site, where the advertising can signal a logical exit point.

I agree with Biz Angel about the content scrapers, people do get lazy when it comes to content, but good content will always be good content, be it on a blog, site or a tweet.

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we are on twitter , but to be totally frank i have no understanding of it whatsoever.
i dont even know how to get the link to put up for people to follow us.
dunno why i just cannot get my head around how it generates business for people.

thats the dumb blonde side of me showing now lol

trena

I started using twitter from a branding side, build up my name on there, chasing celebs etc. Then found that people actually chat on there, now am always on it, on the phone or via the web, the amount of work and quotes is crazy, I do everything you shouldn't do on it, I tweet personal stuff, I tweet friends, I have debates and sneak in offers and web links, but it works! Twitter is one of the thingyou have to hammer a bibefore anything comes from it.
But last wednesday I sat in a pub in Notts having a drink with Chesney Hawkes!

Stick with it, be a person, and connect with people, then it all falls into place!

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Hi Trena, took me a long while, (and still not 100% convinced!) how to adapt twitter to business. One of the main ways is to build up a following, easiest (and prob breaks all the rules) way to do it, is to follow a few people, and they normally follow you back.

Add your twitter link to twitter threads like our one.
The Twitter username thread!!

Go to your twitter home page, and copy the URL (from HTTP:// onwards, and paste it into the above thread.

So mine for example is: (the forum software will probarbly make your URL look friendly automatically)
MyLocalForums (stevie_rich) on Twitter

hope that helps, then soon you will be mixing with the stars like our man Kip!

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I am lucky I guess, my industry has a great offering for twitter, the backgrounds that I do open up many doors, but the way i use twitter does work.

Virgin PR is latest giant to get a KipFX twitter background

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How good is that! I hope your charging for these!!

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thanks steve,

i've done that..... or at least i think i have


ohhhh me confuzzled

lol trena

you have a new follower

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thankyou, you have too

steve just realised your not far from us, gizza shout if ya need us

As far as I know Google does not read links from Twitter, so it is useless to promote links there

Google signed a $25 million dollar deal with Twitter to start indexing the posts, so you were right at the start of the year, but now, Google is looking at Twitter for links and content aswell

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Really?
That is good news!

Does it mean now when you put your link in Twitter, Google would read it?

To the original question, IMHO - the answer is yes.

I'm surprised people haven't seen Twitter accounts appear when they've done searches in Google. I've seen it a few times now. I don't see the tweets, it tends to be just the "Bio" in the details.

They tend to be where people are not using their real names for twitter accounts, and so, it's a bit like domain names, if your username in Twitter is henleyweb (yes made it up) rather than Fred Bloggs, it will appear higher in Google when, for example, people search for Henley Web Design.

Not sure if more Twitter details will be in searches moving forward. I guess we'll have to see....

...oh and hello, haven't introduced myself yet!

thats the theory, but as Mr B says, I've also seen some Bio details in google results, but not many tweets. Guess Google are still refining it.

Remember Yahoo and Bing also recently signed Twitter deals, so you should see links and content passed over there as well.

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This is why my tweets are now protected, so Google does not put my tweets over my website ranking, people retweet my links without google seeing my actual tweeting! As I use it for personal twittering aswell!

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This is such good stuff. I am completely ignorant of Twitter but would really like to know how to use it effectively.

If you've got an account on Twitter, then visit the twitter username thread and get a few more followers

The Twitter username thread!!

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