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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.