From my last blog post, I didn’t really mentioned what I use Twitter for.  In fact, many people have wrong perception about Twitter, they think they need to update their friends (followers) on what they are doing every now and then, though this can be one of the purpose, I don’t think many people are so interested in learning what you are doing every hour… or about your personal life, unless you are a celebrity.

I use Twitter mainly for sharing and bookmarking at the same time.  For example, sharing some interesting videos or articles.  It is also very much depends on my interest.  I believed my followers are mainly people who are interested in Internet Marketing, so whenever I have read articles or news about SEO, SEM, etc, I would then shared them on Twitter.  After sometimes, I can refer the links that I’ve shared in my updates box, so it become a bookmarking site for me as well.

Another purpose I use Twitter is to pull some traffics to my websites.  But using Twitter for “link juice” is a lost battle in Google’s ranking methodology.  Twitter adds a “nofollow” attribute to links submitted by its users. The “nofollow” attribute advises Google, and a few other search engines (Yahoo, MSN, except Ask.com), to ignore the link.

So Twitter is not a good place for creating backlinks to achieve higher Page Rank.  However, it do have offsite SEO value where your followers will see your tweets and click on the links, thus it brings some traffics back to the site hence improve the Alexa ranking. The more followers you have, the better traffics you will get.

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