Backlinks from Twitter

November 26, 2008 by Mark
Filed under: Tactic

Twitter has created quite some interest lately and is becoming hugely popular. In fact Facebook wants Twitter putting $500 Million on the table for it. Twitter is described as a mini-blogging site where you can put thoughts of up to 140 words or less in each post.

At one stage some Back Hat SEO types worked out a way to use the Twitter API and generated lots of back link juice. It wasn’t much later that Google put pressure on twitter and now there is no backlink viagra from twitter.

This doesn’t mean that Twitter cannot be a good source of links to your site. In fact there are a couple of sites that watch all Twitter posts and track which URLs are getting lots of attention. Two of those sites are :

TwittUrls.com and Twitt(url)y.

So how does this help with backlinks? Well Twitter uses TinyUrl to post all it’s links and all the links are posted with the nofollow tag (which tells Google not to treat it as a backlink) so you don’t really get a valid backlink from twitter - BUT you could get people clicking on your twitter url post link and bringing them to your site.

There are some automatic twitter tools to help sites with rss feeds automatically post the title and url to twitter as it is added to the feed - try out : Twitterfeed.

The thing to watch out for is popularity - if you are looked upon as just being a spammer adding links all the time, no one is going to click on your links or follow you. The trick to this is to use Twitter like any other twitter user - putting in your thoughts and day to day rants. Try the humour approach and post funny one liners, and then every 20 posts or so put your links in (or time it right if you have your rss feed linked up).

Another good tactic to get followers on Twitter is to go each each of the people you are following, see who follows them, and then follow each of them. There is a limit of 2000 people you can follow, but you’d be surprized how many people will automatically follow you back (I’ll describe this later on). I managed to get 400 followers in the space of an hour, and over 2 weeks I’m up to 1000 folllowers.

There is another great tool that automatically replies to people who follow you and also follows them back. Try out Twollow or the one I really like TweetLater because not only can you auto follow but you setup auto welcome messages and use GTalk to alert you when a tweet is done with a particular phrase. Combine that with the ability to also follow people from a GTalk chat - and it’s a really good free application.

Once you start getting alerted on tweets that are related to your site’s content I suggest you follow those people beacuse your rss feed might interest them and generate your site more interest.

There is one way to get a valid following backlink from Twitter - put your site into you Bio.

Other sites that use the Twitter API and replicate all the tweets - like Twemes don’t post links with the nofollow flag - so it looks like it could be a good technique anyway for back links if you get into the flow and really start enjoying Twitter for what it’s really for - dumping your thoughts with the occasional rss feed insert.

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Comments

13 Comments on Backlinks from Twitter

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One point here people, Twitter links are no-follow

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