How to Use Twitter Lists for SEO
Twitter allows you to organize accounts into lists using its Web interface. Twitter clients like TweetDeck also support Twitter lists.
Everybody uses lists as if they were the best thing since sliced bread.
The SEO community is as always on the forefront and has been early adopting.
Twitter lists is SEO 2.0 at it’s best. Let’s dive in the Twitter list game. This is my concise article that explain how to use Twitter lists for SEO:
- Make lists public. This may seem obvious but just to remind you: private lists won’t get seen by others or indexed by Google
- Don’t add just everybody to a list, be choosy. I won’t follow a list that makes me add 200 or more new people to follow. I rather subscribe to a list of 10 “best of” Twitter users
- Use keywords or rather keyphrases e.g “x seo” instead of just “seo” as list names. Lists can show up in search results
- Add yourself to your own lists, this way people who subscribe to your list can subscribe to you as well
- List others to get listed yourself. I often check who puts me on their Twitter lists and list the people who do on the corresponding list of mine Twitter lists are
- Tweet your lists and blog your lists. Twitter lists are not just an internal Twitter feature. They have real addresses you can refer to. You should do that.
- ask others whether they want to be added to your list. For instance I seek more people for my engagers list.
That said Twitter lists are still a very new feature or medium. We will see in a few minutes whether they really add value to in this case I’m optimistic.
I’m often wary of feature creep etc. but Twitter lists are indeed really helpful to organize the otherwise rather noisy platform.
They appear to be the most natural and logical extension to Twitter you could imagine. I doubt you can go wrong with adopting them.
Very good. I hadn’t given twitter lists a real look before, but after reading your post, I think I get the point, now.
Thanks for this good post. Stumbled it. :)
Cheers,
Shane
I’d like to be on your list(s) ;-)
Hey there
I have been using twitter so long but I didnt try this but after read this post I’ll try this hope this will work for me as I see followers for new and useful post or folloers exchange but this post is great.
Irfan
much like “irfan ahmed” i never used twitter like the one suggested above..but i will try though..this might really help me..
We are all hoping to be in your list..lol thank you for sharing
I want to be on your list too, thanks for sharing.
That is a neat trick… I never thought that twitter will play significant role in SEO.
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malim: Did you read the post? It’s NOT about getting links from Facebook or Twitter.
Also Google indexes even Twitter nofollow links (I tested that) and with the introduction of Google real time search links in tweets count both for the general rankings and will be displayed in real time.
This post about getting found via Twitter.
A recent post by matt cutts says about Twitter and FB.
While Facebook and Twitter links may be treated like any other links, they do still come with things to keep in mind. For one, with Facebook, you have to keep in mind that a lot of profiles are not public. When a profile is not public, Google can’t crawl it, and it can’t assign pagerank on the outgoing links if it can’t fetch the page to see what the outgoing links are. If the page is public, it might be able to flow pagerank, Matt says. With Twitter, most links are nofollowed anyway.
This is a great tip, I must have been under a rock since I didn’t know about Twitter’s list feature.
Thanks for adding more to my SEO To-Do list ;)
I admit I don’t know what to do with twitter.. I think it can be efficient for some market, but in my case, I really don’t know how…