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Use Twitter for Search Engine Optimization – RoryMartin.com Seattle Web Design
Posted by Rory Martin in Search Engine Optimization, Social Media Marketing on May 7, 2009
Great article from this guys blog:
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With the newfound popularity of microblogging/presence networks like Twitter, these may well be the next haven for people looking into optimizing their sites for search engines. Twitter can be used not just for messaging, but also to generate traffic, particularly since Twitter allows for embedding links in tweets. Plugins like Alex King’s Twitter Tools even automate things for WordPress bloggers. You can set it to post a tweet automatically every time you publish a blog post.
Secondly, Twitter status pages themselves are starting to get indexed by the search engines, and I would think many of these have been getting good Google PageRanks on their own. To illustrate, the twitter.com home page has a PageRank of 9/10, which is considerably high. Matt Cutts’s Twitter page has a pagerank of 6/10, while my own Twitter page has a PR of 0/10, as I have joined twitter recently.
SEO-wise, subfolders are treated as part of the original domain, while subdomains are treated as separate sites altogether. Therefore, whatever SEO benefits twitter.com is getting will trickle down to its subfolders, including user status pages and tweets.
And then there are the alternative uses of Twitter. And I think this is better than link blogging using a full blogging platform or even social bookmarking services like stumbleupon.com because of the push aspect of Twitter.
And it’s not only the push aspect. Each time I post a link on my Twitter status page, all of my followers’ friends pages get to display that link, too. If I have thousands of followers, not only does Twitter push the link to their clients (IM, desktop client, mobile phone, or even web), I also get thousands of new inbound links toward that link I just posted.
These, among other reasons, make me think Twitter and other microblogging/presence services may be ripe for the picking for SEOs. Unfortunately, spammers have also started to mass-produce tweets with links to their own sites. At least they won’t be disturbing anyone, unless they have friends/subscribers in their networks (which can be done with some social engineering).
Of course, sometimes this may not work as intended. For instance, Twitter is limited to 140 characters per post, and so most Twitter clients (including Twitter’s own web interface itself) use URL shortening services like urltea.com and tinyurl.com. I discussed the disadvantages of short URL services a while back with some friends, and my concern is basically about the URL shortening services getting the link love instead of your own domain.Where there are web apps, there will always be people looking for ways to explore–and possibly exploit–these for their own purposes.
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Seattle Social Media Marketing talk show – Too cool for RoryMartin.com
Posted by Rory Martin in Social Media Marketing, Social Networking on April 14, 2009
Gonnn try this out on Friday the 17th at 8:00 am…
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http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Seattle-Web-Design/2009/04/17/Seattle-Social-Media-Marketing
I’m going to do a bunch of talking about the information on my blog and my site
Seattle Social Media Club that RoryMartin.com Seattle web design folks love
Posted by Rory Martin in Search Engine Optimization, Social Media Marketing on April 4, 2009
The Social Media Club brings together journalists, publishers, communications professionals, artists, amateur media creators, citizen journalists, teachers, students, tool makers, and other interested collaborators. Essentially the people who create and consume media who have an interest in seeing the ‘media industry’ evolve for everyone’s benefit.
As a Seattle Web Design company that specializes in Seattle Search Engine Optimization and Seattle Social Media Marketing, I really like this club and here are some more links to get connected.
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SMC SEATTLE’S OTHER ONLINE PLACES
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Twitter
http://twitter.com/SMCSeattle
LinkedIn Group
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1847359
Blog
http://seattlesmc.wordpress.com/
FLICKR
http://www.flickr.com/groups/socialmediaclub
AND http://www.flickr.com/groups/smcseattle
The tag for photos/videos/blog posts/podcasts is SMCSEATTLE.
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Are you a new web designer in Seattle?
Posted by Rory Martin in Web Design and Development on March 29, 2009
Cool quote from my friend Erin Shafkind at http://www.mustardworkstudio.com/
Cool quote posted by my friend Erin Shafkind
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Major iPhone upgrade coming this summer for Seattle Web Designers too
Posted by Rory Martin in Web Design and Development on March 17, 2009
Apple unveiled a slew of new features — more than 100 in all — in the third major revision of the iPhone’s basic operating system. Among the enhancements demonstrated at a special media event at its Cupertino headquarters on Tuesday were many of the functions users had been clamoring for — in some cases for nearly two years. Among the highlights:
- Cut, copy and paste across applications for Seattle Web Designers at www.rorymartin.com this is awesome!!
- So-called “push notification†— for example, of breaking news or sports results
- Multimedia messaging service (MMS) for sending pictures or voice memos in instant messages
- Landscape viewing when the iPhone is turned sideways in most applications, including Mail
- The ability to search Mail, Calendar and other applications for key words
- Improved calendar functions
- Stereo Bluetooth for wireless earphones
And much more. At the end of the 90 minute presentation, senior vice president Scott Forstall (who stood in for the ailing Steve Jobs) was rattling off features faster than reporters could type: Notes Sync, audio/video tags, live streaming, shake to shuffle, Wi-Fi auto login, Stereo Bluetooth, LDAP, iTunes account creation, YouTube ratings, Anti-Philshing, Call Log, Parental Controls, Media Scrubber, OTA profiles, VPN on demand, Languages, YouTube subscriptions, YouTube accounts and Encrypted profiles, auto-fills…
“Many minor features add up to a major change,†was Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster’s take-away message.
Apple also announced a raft of improvements — including more than 1,000 new APIs (application programming interfaces) — in the so-called SDK (software development kit) that programmers use to create applications for the iPhone and the iPod touch. Chief among them:
- Peer to peer connectivity to allow multiplayer games with people in close proximity
- Support for turn-by-turn navigation and other sophisticated map applications
- A subscription model that allows subscriptions and micropayments by the item ($9.95 for an electronic book, say, or a more $0.99 for a more powerful weapon in a shooting game)
- The ability to interact with hardware accessories such as speakers or glucose monitoring kits
A beta (preliminary) version of new SDK is available to developers for free download today.
iPhone 3.0 with all the added end-user features won’t be available until sometime this summer. It will be free to owners of existing iPhones and will cost $9.95 for the iPod touch. Some of the new functions — for example Stereo Bluetooth and MMS — won’t work on the first generation phones.
Apple also announced some App Store milestones:
- 25,000 apps available for download (the actual figure is now more than 28,000)
- 800 million apps downloaded
- 17 million iPhones sold through Dec. 2008
- 13.7 million iPod touches (for a total installed base of more than 30 million App Store-ready devices)
- 800,000 downloads of the original SDK
- 50,000 developers — 60% of them new to Apple
- 96% of the apps submitted are approved — although not fast enough to satisfy some developers
See Jon Fortt’s Big Tech here for a live blog of the event. Apple’s press release is available here.
Apple closed Tuesday just under $100, up nearly 4.5% for the day. In the past 15 days it has gained more than $16 a share.
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