Micro Blogs

Could Twitter be used for SEO?

Well yes, of course it can. In many different ways. Because it’s a powerhouse, and Google loves it.

More and more these days when doing a search for a specific keyword or keyphrase, I’m coming up with Twitter feeds as the top result. There’s an awful lot of link love out there for Twitter, and by just using a targeted keyword or two word phrase as your Twitter username, you might just pull in something good.

Think about that for a second. That’s a pretty powerful reason to tweet, right there.

For example, if you were to have the username car_sales , you might be able to do a little SEO around that to get the search term “car sales”. Now that’s a really competitive term, and it’s probably going to be a lot tougher to get than just tweeting, but you might be able to see how it could nab some really good, but more obscure search listings.

But let’s take it a step further and automate it some. Let’s say you have a bail bonds business. Let’s also assume that your bail bonds company has a website and a blog. You could take your blog posts and tweet them to a twitter feed for the user “bail_bonds” or “bailbonds”. If you are already blogging to a regular blog every day, your tweets could be completely automated by using TwitterFeed . TwitterFeed does exactly that. It takes an RSS feed and updates your Twitter with tweets from that feed.

Viola. Instant autotweets. You now have another super heavyweight webpage that is pounding away at a much desired keyword. In this case, a short key phrase. But I’m sure you get the idea.

Discuss.

Found a really great video today showing the growth of Twitter and companies using microblogs.

I especially liked the part about Comcast. It’s good to know that if I have a gripe about my cable (I absolutely hate it when I can’t watch the SciFi Channel) I might just post a tweet and get some action.

More and more companies are looking to the web for reputation management and customer service issues. Using Twitter and other microblogs is definitely a part of their future in this regard.

Today I came across a pretty good article about how you can use Twitter for business.

We really can’t deny the fact that businesses are testing out Twitter as part of their steps into the social media landscape. You can say it’s a stupid application, that no business gets done there, but there are too many of us (including me) that can disagree and point out business value. I’m not going to address the naysayers much with this. Instead, I’m going to offer 50 thoughts for people looking to use Twitter for business. And by “business,” I mean anything from a solo act to a huge enterprise customer.

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