Using Twitter For Link Building

Jason Lee Miller | Eric Ward illustrates | found

April 11, 2009 at  http://www.WebProNews.com

Links on Twitter are already nofollowed and most are shortened anyway by a shortener. What use can Twitter be for link building? Link building Eric Ward says the site is perfect for finding niche experts. It’s not about huge amounts of followers or traffic spikes. You can get that kind of traffic from Digg. But the advantage of Twitter, says Ward, is that people specific to an industry are out there, findable on Twitter. So if you specialize in little plastic doohickeys they put on shoestrings, irrelevant traffic is not what you’re after. At Search Engine Land, Ward explains how a message that begins as a tweet ends up as a link from a highly trusted website: ——————————————————————– Have you gotten good qualified leads from twitter? Please Comment Below this page

====================================================================

"A few weeks ago I announced a new site via URLwire, and whenever
I do this I set up several alerts/trackers to see where
mentions/links show up.  I also set up a Twitter search for that
new URL....the new site I announced has been tweeted or re-tweeted
by seven people--I discovered all of them were health experts in
one form or another.  Also, all of them had several hundred
followers (one had 780), and a quick check of a few dozen of those
showed some overlap (expected) as well as frequent health URL
tweets.  In other words, I'd found a loose community of several
thousand collective Twitterer's who had shared news about a new
web site URL."

"One of those re-tweets came from a librarian at a med school web
site, who did one more thing with that URL. She added a link to it
from the med school web site she's in charge of editing.  What
started to her as a tweet ended as a permanent link from her high
trust web page."

What's even better about that is that earned link was a free,
organic one, the best kind. No manipulation, no buying, no trading.
And that one very trusted link is likely to outweigh many links
(however they're gotten) from not-so-trusted websites.

--------------------------------------------------------------------
            Have you received a free organic permanent
             link on a trusted website by tweeting?

 Tell us your story below this page (need to register first)

--------------------------------------------------------------------

Related articles:

Google’s Still Not Buying Twitter



What is twitter



create my own website



twitter traffic

Tags: twitter

This entry was posted on April 11, 2009 at 8:21 pm. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Posted in twitter by nordend No Comments Yet