Twitter has SEO Value...

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For those who can't be bothered/haven't get time to read the article above, here is the long and short of it....

To make a long story short: although Twitter is a social media tool meant to create community and relationships, it does have an SEO value. For example, Twitter can affect positively your Alexa rankings by sending visitors to your pages. Usage data is a sign of quality for Google and all the other search engines. If you can make people come to your site via Twitter, then this is an SEO advantage you cannot afford to miss.

[Pete]

Good article. I really, really need to start using Twitter. It's not compatible with my phone apparently though which kind of takes a bit of the appeal away.

[dot design]

No problem Pete,

I don't really use it through my phone, I use Twirl a desktop app twhirl | the social software client to keep track and handle everything

[craigsman]

Traffic is good. Conversions are best!

Twitter can give you traffic but not neseserally conversions. Who cares if you get your followers to a site? Unless they are looking for a product that you sell or provide, it is meaningless. I think it is very similar to any SEO - it's great to rank #1 in Google, but if it's for useless or irrelevant keywords that don't result in a conversion then whats the point?

[Xenonsoft]

If they follow your blog, then they'll be interested in what you do. Getting them to your site is a necessity if they're going to employ you. I doubt you would get many conversions from 0 followers Craig.

Welcome to the forums though.

[nicoletiern]

It’s not that much of a surprise, they have grown pretty quickly and it is to be expected that they will throw some money at something that is very attractive to advertisers.

[Journey]

I have recently joined in Twitter but I'm not that active on this.

[Minuteman Press]

What's the current view of Alexa? I find it interesting sometimes as a notional benchmark.

Peter

[conanite]

Alexa is useful to know what sort of traffic your competitors are getting - although what that means of course depends on how clever you think your competitors are. Hopefully they're paying for irrelevant keywords :)

This article - 10 Ways How To Track Site Traffic, Popularity, Statistics | 1stwebdesigner - Love In Design - lists a bunch of alternative/complementary sites. I use google analytics a lot but it feels like I'm giving them too much information ...

[Minuteman Press]

I love the link, very useful. Lots of tools I haven't seen before.

Many thanks.

Peter