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Twitter as an SEO tool

People are tweeting at an exponential rate and Google now indexes Twitter in real time using it’s new Google Caffeine software.

Twitter comprises of short messages that are under 150 characters long, any big gossip, news or viral gets ‘tweeted’ by thousands and quickly spreads across the globe.  Twitter is mostly used for self-promotion due to the fact that you can stick advertisements and links directly into the feeds of people that follow you.

Twitter can be used as an SEO tool, but beware, some SEO companies are using Twitter alone for SEO which isn’t right.  For starters you can only get NoFollow links from Twitter which don’t pass hardly any SEO power to the sites linked to.

When you create a post on your blog then tweet about it, you’d be surprised how many people search twitter for the latest tips or information and may find your blog.  Here at Real Web SEO we tweet every blog we make – take a look at our twitter profile here.  Choosing the best text to add next to you blog link is crucial, a boring title could never get clicked on whereas an exciting title like for example “10 ways to instantly make you life more exciting” may get hundreds of clicks!

So don’t use Twitter for the search engines, use it to drive traffic to your unique content.  It’s a social tool and if you have a creative skill then you could reach out to people worldwide with your talent.

Following people in your niche is the way forward too, about 30% of the people you follow will follow you back and they will see whenever you announce anything within their feed.  If you convince people in your niche to follow you then they may be truly interested in your latest project or news, what a wonderful PR tool Twitter can be!

The website TweetMeMe show you how many people have tweeted with a link to your website, it has a great plugin for WordPress and quickly shows you which posts you created have got picked up by the general public.  Real Web SEO’s record is currently 18 re-tweets, and our average post receives around 4 natural links from external sources.

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