Comments on: How Twitter and a Blog can improve your Google Search Ranking http://www.tourismkeys.ca/blog/2009/11/twitter-website-ranking-google-blog/ Tips & Tools to help you make the most of the mobile and social Web Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:39:33 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Trevor http://www.tourismkeys.ca/blog/2009/11/twitter-website-ranking-google-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-924 Trevor Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:13:22 +0000 http://www.tourismkeys.ca/blog/?p=1677#comment-924 Great post and I'm really excited and hoping this will all work out. Sam brought something up in his last comment which is the use of url shorteners. I only use bit.ly when sending out my tweets for tracking purposes. How would Google interpret those links? Would they go in and check where each bit.ly link went and index the final destination pages or would it just index everything to bit.ly? Using my own website name for the blog post link would be very long and take up most of the 140 characters plus there isn't an easy way to track where the clicks actually came from . Any ideas of how you think this may work? Great post and I’m really excited and hoping this will all work out. Sam brought something up in his last comment which is the use of url shorteners. I only use bit.ly when sending out my tweets for tracking purposes. How would Google interpret those links? Would they go in and check where each bit.ly link went and index the final destination pages or would it just index everything to bit.ly? Using my own website name for the blog post link would be very long and take up most of the 140 characters plus there isn’t an easy way to track where the clicks actually came from . Any ideas of how you think this may work?

]]> By: Sam Daams http://www.tourismkeys.ca/blog/2009/11/twitter-website-ranking-google-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-923 Sam Daams Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:56:41 +0000 http://www.tourismkeys.ca/blog/?p=1677#comment-923 One thing that is actually quite important if google is following links, is to be very careful of which url shortener you use (preferably don't use any). Some don't flow rankings through, and you always end up with the risk that if they close down, all your links stop working! One thing that is actually quite important if google is following links, is to be very careful of which url shortener you use (preferably don’t use any). Some don’t flow rankings through, and you always end up with the risk that if they close down, all your links stop working!

]]> By: Sam Daams http://www.tourismkeys.ca/blog/2009/11/twitter-website-ranking-google-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-921 Sam Daams Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:50:17 +0000 http://www.tourismkeys.ca/blog/?p=1677#comment-921 I hear something different in that audio recording. A 'real time search' means a search that displays real time info, ie. the actual tweets themselves. That doesn't necessarily mean they are following the links possibly held inside tweets. Now they might very well be making an exception in this case, but I haven't seen that announced anywhere yet. Don't get me wrong, I agree 110% with your advice of tweeting and being a good member of your community within Twitter. You *will* see benefits from that. If nothing else, your twitter followers might blog and interesting content can then end up being blogged about :) I hear something different in that audio recording. A ‘real time search’ means a search that displays real time info, ie. the actual tweets themselves. That doesn’t necessarily mean they are following the links possibly held inside tweets. Now they might very well be making an exception in this case, but I haven’t seen that announced anywhere yet.

Don’t get me wrong, I agree 110% with your advice of tweeting and being a good member of your community within Twitter. You *will* see benefits from that. If nothing else, your twitter followers might blog and interesting content can then end up being blogged about :)

]]> By: Sara Borghi http://www.tourismkeys.ca/blog/2009/11/twitter-website-ranking-google-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-920 Sara Borghi Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:05:21 +0000 http://www.tourismkeys.ca/blog/?p=1677#comment-920 Awesome post Todd! The way you're able to simplify apparently diffiucult technological developments and make them so actionable it's simply great! Thanks for your awesome tips. Best regards, Sara Awesome post Todd!

The way you’re able to simplify apparently diffiucult technological developments and make them so actionable it’s simply great!

Thanks for your awesome tips.

Best regards,

Sara

]]> By: Todd Lucier http://www.tourismkeys.ca/blog/2009/11/twitter-website-ranking-google-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-919 Todd Lucier Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:41:55 +0000 http://www.tourismkeys.ca/blog/?p=1677#comment-919 I've heard that before Sam... but it's simply untrue. Here's why I know Google is following and evaluating these links. Google's Marissa Mayer tipped her hand about Google crawling Twitter links when she mentioned Google is working with Twitter on creating a real time search engine. Where would these links come from other than crawled status updates? Listen to Marissa's startling cut off and subject change talking about working with Twitter on Real Time Search at Web 2.0 last month. http://bit.ly/44E67V Could Google really instantly crawl all blogs and news sites looking for and indexing updates? How would it rank these results without links? I've written before about how important real time indexing of the Web matters and how Twitter is core to real time search. This post describes how Twitter is crawling the links and looking to use reputation in grading the quality. http://bit.ly/2jAaG3 If Google didn't follow and index these links, competitors would. My advice stands. Create content that matters and get it tweeted about by being a good member of your community within Twitter and you will see benefits. I’ve heard that before Sam… but it’s simply untrue. Here’s why I know Google is following and evaluating these links.

Google’s Marissa Mayer tipped her hand about Google crawling Twitter links when she mentioned Google is working with Twitter on creating a real time search engine. Where would these links come from other than crawled status updates? Listen to Marissa’s startling cut off and subject change talking about working with Twitter on Real Time Search at Web 2.0 last month. http://bit.ly/44E67V

Could Google really instantly crawl all blogs and news sites looking for and indexing updates? How would it rank these results without links?

I’ve written before about how important real time indexing of the Web matters and how Twitter is core to real time search.

This post describes how Twitter is crawling the links and looking to use reputation in grading the quality.
http://bit.ly/2jAaG3

If Google didn’t follow and index these links, competitors would.

My advice stands. Create content that matters and get it tweeted about by being a good member of your community within Twitter and you will see benefits.

]]> By: Sam Daams http://www.tourismkeys.ca/blog/2009/11/twitter-website-ranking-google-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-917 Sam Daams Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:22:33 +0000 http://www.tourismkeys.ca/blog/?p=1677#comment-917 All links in tweets are nofollow'd though, and Google is still saying those aren't used at all to rank websites (I think their stance is "nofollow'd links are removed altogether from the link graph"). Not saying you shouldn't blog or tweet, mind you, because you should! :) All links in tweets are nofollow’d though, and Google is still saying those aren’t used at all to rank websites (I think their stance is “nofollow’d links are removed altogether from the link graph”). Not saying you shouldn’t blog or tweet, mind you, because you should! :)

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