Comments on: Twitters SEO value?

By: Robert Dawson

Robert Dawson — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:30:23 +0000

I hear a lot of discussions where people think that the links from Facebook and Twitter help SEO. I recommend that if anything, they use these services for driving targeted traffic and interacting with consumers not for improving their search engine ranks .

By: Tim Hawkins

Tim Hawkins — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:54:23 +0000

We’ve seen that Both Google and Yahoo count some links from Twitter that are no follow.

The whole no follow thing is a bit of a spanner in the works, as others have seen and reported recently Google doesn’t deal with no follow how we thought.

By: Troy Perkins

Troy Perkins — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:13:44 +0000

Hi Tim,

I failed to add that though twitter uses tinyurls, it also uses nofollow attributes in both tinyurls and regular links. My understanding is that if tinyurls are based on 301 redirects then PageRank is passed. However, again the nofollow attribute comes into play.

Nofollow attributes in links don’t necessarily prevent notation according to Matt Cutts of Google. Google is supposedly not allowing PageRank hording with this technique either. Who really knows? And has anyone tested such scenarios?

Great discussion!

By: Tim Hawkins

Tim Hawkins — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:38:55 +0000

As with most things SEO related it’s not a simple yes or no. It depends, if you do the old link query you’ll see that not only does Google provide results but it also has no problem with the redirects, which as far as I’m aware are Search Engine Friendly