Today we are very softly launching SEO Meme – an SEO news page powered by Twitter & Tweetmeme. The site displays popular SEO, social media and internet marketing related content with the most tweeted content making it’s way onto the homepage.
While the site has potential there are a few glaring errors caused by spammers and Twitter bots that re-tweet everything related to certain keywords. Over the next few weeks we will be totally blocking everything from Twitterfeed which will remove a lot of the spam. We will also be removing services like PRweb and other press release sites from the mix.
The goal is to become a passive social media site rather than an active one. This means that we are not going to be powered by votes like Sphinn and Digg because that relies on users actually bothering to vote for things. We want to display content based on the actions people are already taking without asking them to do anything different.
At present the site is powered by Tweetmeme and we are working with them to increase the quality of stories by improving the spam filtering.
All feedback gratefully received – please add the site to your favourites and take a look each day.
Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Leeds based digital & SEO agency Branded3. Patrick also runs Blogstorm.You can get our blog posts delivered for free by email every day - simply add your email address to the box below or alternatively grab the RSS feed.
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Great idea. I mostly use Twitter to look for great SEO posts which works really well – much easier than manually checking blogs or going through numerous emails. Good luck with the spam filters – they’re gonna be busy!
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I would definitely be interested to see how this pans out once you’ve worked out the spam-caused errors – and have bookmarked it and will have a look every day to see how it’s going. In theory and so far, it seems like a very good idea since due to it’s passive nature, it will theoretically be a ‘truer’ representation of what people are reading, so long as they are re-tweeting it too.
More comments from LuciThe only issue i see, is what happens when the next Big Thing comes round, and knocks the current one (Twitter) out of pole position?
Can anyone make a customized version of Tweetmeme or did you have to come to a paid agreement?
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This is my first time hearing about SEO Meme. I just checked it out and I love the idea of being able to check tweets on SEO, social media, internet marketing, and the like. It makes it easier to find that certain content.
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Its nice to see about SEO Meme, the SEO news page that shows seo news and seo tweets.
More comments from tag44My first time to have encountered tweet meme. After visiting it and looking at it, I find the platform to be neat.
This seems like a another Social Bookmarking website. I see some big names there posting as well. I’ll be using this for sure.
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