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Do links you post in Twitter help your search rankings in Google and Yahoo?

I am wondering if it is worth it to create some back links to a website on Twitter with regards ONLY to the search engines.

Update:

Not talking about tiny url - legit www.xyz.com links.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Twitter adds a “nofollow” attribute to links submitted by its users. The “nofollow” attribute advises Google, and a few other search engines, to ignore the link. Some of these follow the links but exclude them from their ranking calculations (Yahoo!, Google); some ignore the links completely (MSN). The only known search engine that doesn’t comply with Google’s “nofollow” at all is Ask.com.

    Do tinyURL Shortened URLs Have SEO Value?

    The short answer is yes. TinyURLs are dynamically created URLs that redirect users to the real URL via 301 (permanent redirect). Search engines do not index TinyURLs, but index and pass PageRank to the actual URLs instead. The problem with Twitter, as we already discussed, is the “nofollow” attribute added to all submitted links.

  • 5 years ago

    Hi Kate, The truth is it is a long process and you need to be patient, very patient indeed. Just for a moment, forget it is a website and pretend it is an actual retail store. What would you do then? Simple things really like having your web address on business cards, letter heads and any marketing pages perhaps in free newspapers, or anything like that you can think of. This is all for free as you would have these anyway. Now it is an online resource and you want to get people to your site so the answer is to tell as many people as you can about it. Start with friends and family and hopefully they will tell their friends as well. That should get you some starting traffic. Then I would recommend writing articles and submitting those to the many online article companies. Then participate in any forums relating to your website. Make good comments without advertising too much and build up a trust and then start advertising. Any social net work site is good for advertising such as face book, quiddo, digg, delicious etc That take a lot of work but the good nes is it is all free. I have done this and it took me about 3 months to build everything and get it up and running. My daily traffic is now about 250+ a day and I haven't paid anything so it does work but it does take a lot of your time and effort. Good luck Now let's go

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    For best SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION results I highly recommend utilizing Google Search Bot: http://is.gd/gsbsoftware Using that computer software I have placed our site to first page of Google on a high competing key word.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I think most of the links posted in twitter are Tiny URL, and that does not help.

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    For ideal SEO outcomes I highly recommend utilizing Google Search Bot: http://is.gd/gsbsoftware Making use of that software I have graded our web site to very first page of Google on a very high competing keyword.

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