Social media and SEO part 2: Twitter and SEO
Posted in Uncategorized on February 1st, 2010 by admin – Be the first to comment- Tweet with users’ words in mind – so that Twitter’s search can find your posts
- Use the appropriate hashtag for things like conferences and events
- Link to your Twitter profile page from your website
- Choose a ‘real name’ carefully as that will be first in your <title> tag, therefore it will be very visible in the search engine’s results pages.
- You may want to put a few relevant keywords in your real name too.
- Put your main website URL in your profile.
- Add keywords to your short bio
- Write twitter posts for Retweets so that you encourage others to spread the word.
- Tweets are now indexed in real-time by Bing and Google.
- Write keyword-rich tweets if possible.
- Select the initial characters of each tweet carefully as this will be shown in the search engine results list too.
- The links you post aren’t counted towards your ranking by Google. However you should ensure that any links to your site, that use a URL shortening service, use 301 redirects in case anyone chooses to link to your pages from their site, using the shortened URL.