You can now Embed Tweets easily..I started writing this post a week or so ago, but finally decided to publish it.
You can check out this TechCrunch article which gives several methods for embedding links. If you decide to use Blackbird Pie, be sure not to use the https version of your tweet links. Also, you must click on the time link below the Tweet which says something like “about 1hr ago” and copy and paste that link into the Blackbird tool to get an embedded tweet like the one on this post.
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You do know that many of the search engines are using Twitter results for part of their real time search results right? Well tweets do often show up in the SERPs.
Something that makes me go hmm
As you may or may not know, as part of the Baldydog.com company, we not only do SEO, but I as the Social Media Director, do manage several other blogs.
In addition to all the blogs, as part of the Baldydog network, we have multiple sites to include directories such as Pixelheadonline, Online Legal Directory, Home Improvement Directory, and of course Alltravelsites.com to name just a few. If you want a complete list of our directories, leave a comment, and I will send you an email with the complete list of our directories.
Anyway, while reviewing and publishing travel site submissions on the travel directory, as part of the submission process, I usually send out several tweets about the newly added travel resource. I usually say something like the tweet below.
I also send out a tweet with the individual page for the listing and may include a direct link to the url of the listing if it is a short url.
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What I have noticed is that links that I tweet, such as individual listing pages, will then be cached in Google. If I don’t Tweet them, they won’t get cached, and as you know, an un-cached page is as good as invisible to Google because it doesn’t know about the web page.
Does this mean you should go and send thousands of spam links to Twitter so they get cached? I wouldn’t recommend it. I think it is ok occasionally. What I try to do when I do these types of “resource addition” tweets, is to sandwich them between tweets that seek to share, communicate, rt, or be genuinely helpful.
Even these types of tweets, I feel are helpful and not spammy, as I am only tweeting about travel related resources, and most of the 2000+ followers have some sort of travel interest.
So How Can You Use Twitter for Link Buiding
Twitter links as you know are nofollow type links, so they really don’t count for much Google Juice, but they do serve to notify the search engines of your resource, which may otherwise have been uncached.
If you do link building as we do, when you get accepted into a directory, send out a Tweet for the actual listing page of your resource or the category page that your listing appears if it is not too heavily populated with other similar resources.
Try to get as many cached links pointing to your site as possible. Cached with PR is better, but cached at the very least.
So have you noticed similar results using Twitter, or do you think I am erroneous?
**note – to get the box around my tweets, I put the tweets into a table. <table border=”2″><tr><td>Tweet code</table></tr></td>
***For more info on Link Building check out On-Page Optimization Training.
Written by Pixelhead on May 19th, 2010 with 15
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Since creating the Baldydog Facebook Fan Page, we have really not done too much with our fan page. However, the other day, I got a Google Alert for the our company name “baldydog”. I opened the email and s
aw that the Facebook Fan page was the mention..kind of strange, since I had not posted anything on the fan page in quite some time.
Not thinking about it too much, later on that day, I came across a post on Facebook or Twitter that Google is now caching Facebook Fan pages, but not the millions of user pages. I think the person that left the messege might have been a little annoyed that their personal face book pages were not going to show up in Google.
So knowing that these pages will now be seen by not only my Facebook fans, but also anyone that might come across them on Google. Cool, that just might provide me a little bit of incentive to post on it more frequently.
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Written by Pixelhead on March 4th, 2010 with 22
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Why yes of course you can sell ads on your Twitter account. Will you make a ton of dinero selling ads on Twitter? I seriously doubt it. Below is a list of services than can help you to sell ads or buy ads on Twitter. I have only used several of them. I also started using one a while ago, and ended up sending out more than a few tweets for teeth whitening products..got to hate those ads.
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This is no way means the list of all lists of Twitter advertising services. If you have used any of these or any others, please let me know your feedback.
What do you think?
Is advertising on Twitter or selling tweets a good or bad idea?
Written by Pixelhead on January 26th, 2010 with 55
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What are Twitter Lists?
If you have not been on your Twitter account lately, you should be aware of Twitter Lists, which is the new feature that Twitter just released last week. This is the feature that allows the Twitter user to create groups.
Lists enable the user to group users according to any variable that they choose. Some Examples:
- Geographic locations(Philly Bloggers)
- Occupations (Web Developers)
- Family(My family and friends Twitter accounts)
- Work(business contacts)
- Hobbies(mountain biking)
The uses are limitless.
Lists can be both public and private. You don’t need to follow someone to add them to a list. Adding profiles to a private list does not let them know that they are on the list, but adding a profile to a public allows the profile to see that they are included on a list. Twitter takes the word privacy serious.
When would I want to use a private list?
- keep track of my competition.
- Using Twitter for research that you may want to keep private.
- Keep all your amorous profiles secret.
- Keep your family profiles secret.
- If you are ghost Tweeting, you can create a list of the profiles that you tweet on to have easy access to the stats.
In short, Twitter Lists are here, stop in and check them out.
Some Other Twitter List Tips:
- Got an idea for a list, then create your list and then add profiles.
- Check Out the Twitter Blog post announcing the Twitter List Feature.
- Check out my first blog post on Twitter Lists on Socialtivity.net.
- If you get added to a list, follow the list.
- When you are added to a list, your Tweets will show up on the Twitter list stream.
- If someone adds you to a cool list, not a list of “jerks”, then you might want to consider not only following the list, but also consider following the person.
- If you go to http://twitter.com/goodies/widgets you can get widgets that allow you to show lists as well as the standard Twitter stuff.
If you would like to be added to the Pixelhead_Peeps list, leave a related comment below, and include your Twitter profile in the comment.
So what do you think of Twitter Lists?
Written by Pixelhead on November 4th, 2009 with 43
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Automatic Twitter updating whether it is adding followers automatically, adding tweets automatically, or getting followers automatically is a a growing industry. It also may very well be the downfall of Twitter if the Twitter team does not establish some sort of control over the automation of Twitter. Much like FFA(Free For All) pages of years ago,Twitter is at risk of becoming a spammers playground.
I too am guilty of using automated programs on Twitter. Recently I began experimenting with some services that enable the automation of your Twitter account. Be warned again. Be sure to give your followers some good tweets, not just automated tweets from feeds.
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Written by Pixelhead on July 3rd, 2009 with 71
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What is TPO?
TPO or Twitter Profile Optimization, is a term I coined this morning at 3am. I see in the SERP’s(Search Engine Results Pages) there are sites that appear for the phrase, but I will take credit for the TPO and actually defining it.
TPO Could actually be a career much like SMO(Social Media Optimization), which it could be niche career of as well. 
TPO Duties
- Set up Twitter profiles for companies and individuals to include registering and tweaking the profile page.
- Put Twitter widgets on website’s/blogs. (more…)
Written by Pixelhead on May 13th, 2009 with 28
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