The Power Of Blogs and Twitter

by Patrick Altoft on October 27, 2008

For those of you yet to be convinced by the power that bloggers and Twitter users have over the Internet take a look at the screenshot below.

I know that Harrogate SEO isn’t a competitive keyword but I expected it to be a bit harder than this. Twitter is going to start popping up more and more on Google.

Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Leeds based digital & SEO agency Branded3. Patrick also runs Blogstorm.

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vipey 27 Oct 2008 at 6:32 pm

i wonder if twitter will start using unique meta descriptions, ie the actual tweet in the serps, im sure it would help them and also would add an extra value in ranking

Vinay 28 Oct 2008 at 1:52 pm

Patrick, I have noticed many such “keywords” being dominated by Blogs/Twitters at Google and other search engines. But in the long term not really so. Google wants to deliver its user with fresh (& fast) contents and thus stresses more on Social Media & Blogs until these terms are found on generic sites, news portals & other websites.

Just google the term may be after few months and they (blogs & social media) would be ranking far below the those sites. I’ve tested this few times and found this to happen….!! Google doesn’t wants it users to get disappointed upon querying something and hence depends heavily on blogs and social networks to feed these ‘hungry’ users.

Helps a lot on short term goals.. def. not on a long term.. you can find authority and news sites taking the position.

Just my thought!

Lena 29 Oct 2008 at 1:13 am

I hate using tinyurl in Twitter. But it’s necessary to create short URLs.

http://starstylefile.wordpress.com/ 29 Oct 2008 at 3:03 pm

Many thanks for that

Kim McGinnis 29 Oct 2008 at 8:02 pm

I love blogs and social networking, although Twitter has not been that great from my experience. Maybe it’s because my site is more geared to the business person…? I love LinkedIn, and have gotten a lot of great traffic from them.

Visual Obsession 31 Oct 2008 at 4:28 pm

wow, I created a twitter account but never actually used it.. now I will definitely start using it ;)

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