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SEO on Twitter
by Chris Pollette | March 24, 2009
While you were out boiling events in your life down to 140-character snippets, Twitter’s added some functionality that should get you added to Google’s hot list. That’s right, the now-famous microblog/time-waster/marketing tool/what IS that thing (depending on whom you ask) has tweaked the titles of its user pages to make them show up better in search.
As TechCrunch’s Robin Wauters pointed out, his page title now says “Robin Wauters on Twitter,” instead of “Twitter/Robin Wauters.” He ran a test on people he knows who use Twitter, and the results show that this little change makes the Twitter pages appear higher in the search results than they had. Founder Biz Stone told Wauters the change was made yesterday.
So what does it mean? It means that Twitter is trying to get its users more exposure, which is especially helpful for those people who are using the service to market their businesses, both large and small. Wauters said that this will help increase Twitter’s traffic “exponentially.” As Twitter begins running advertising for Twitter-related software, that may be used to help them build a source of revenue.
On the other hand, you may remember a story that came out in February, in which Stone was quoted as saying that Twitter may charge businesses to use the service. Making tweets show up more visibly would encourage more businesspeople to use the service, for which Twitter could charge more dough. Seems like a win-win for the little blue birdie and its customers.
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Good content. Just wanted to add some points here that may be helpful for those looking out for professional SEO services. There are tons of SEO companies offering different SEO packages and solutions at highly competitive rates. However, when looking our for these services, its important to not only look at the affordability factor but also what is unique about their SEO service and what differentiates them from other companies.
While choosing an SEO company its equally important to analyze the SEO company’s website in terms of their Rankings, Yahoo links, Google index, Alexa ranking and similar such factors which indicates the company’s expertise in the field of SEO. So make sure you are doing enough research and smart work before investing your advertising spend.
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As a webdesigner myself , I’m very glad to find that another individual thought to post this topic.
Quite a few people just don’t understand what all is required in this field, and I think also we are many times not appreciated enough
or taken for granted. Never the less I’m very glad to see that you feel the same way I do , thanks so much for this post!
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