SEO Step-By-Step Guide– 170. Are you making use of Twitter?

Today there is so much of buzz about using Twitter.com for promoting one’s website. We can see the twitter icon in almost all the websites reading, catch me at twitter, follow me at twitter etc. Have you started using Twitter on your website yet? If not it is time that you start your tweets. Your tweets can appear in Google results and in the other search results pages.

Twitter will fall under the microblogging category. It allows you to share with the world short messages through its single click online sharing application. The tweets available online can be manipulated in a number of ways including making keyword specific searches. We can follow twitter users to see what they have to offer. We can also follow tweets posted by our competitors to see what they are up to and be prepared to meet your competition. Twitter helps you build your online reputation in a natural fashion. This is much simpler than submitting to directories as well as to article directories.

As one can easily guess, Google loves twitter as it is a highly content oriented site. You can post keyword rich tweets to attract visitors to your website. When you are using twitter, you must first learn limitations with the number of characters that you can use in your tweets as well as in the URLs. Twitter allows URL length of up to 30 characters.

Remember that your user name will be in the URL so pick a catchy username that is relevant to your service or product. However, it should not be too long. The message length of each tweet can be 120 characters so come up with interesting tweets because you do not get to write long articles or posts.

Many people just presume that tweeter will give them a free back links. But twitter uses ‘no follow’ tag so you will not get your back links from tweeter. However, no one can contest the fact that your tweets can be indexed by Google and make people look for your website if your tweets are interesting enough. So you can easily build your brand identity as well as get some decent traffic through your tweets. The best thing about twitter is that it does not require a lot of time; you can add new tweets as you are waiting for your emails to download or as you are waiting for your call to get through to the person whom you called. However, it does require some thinking put into it to make your tweets effective.

If you are new to twitter, it is best to review some of the tweets online and check what people are tweeting about.

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