DISQUS

elgreg · 10 months ago

I agree that if a site is linked to on Twitter, the vote should count. I'm not sure what the impact would be on Twitter's struggling infrastructure if Google was crawling and following all the links. If it's high, that might be another reason, besides spammers, that they're using "nofollow". Somehow, I doubt the impact would be too much. Also, I got here from your Tweet. :)

MartinEdic · 10 months ago

I would argue no because it would flood Twitter with SEO spam. The purpose of no-follows, is in part, as an anti-spam tactic enforced by Google to keep their results clean. If every Retweet became a link their API would get slammed with scripts.

web development Rochester · 1 month ago

yeah and it will really hurt their page rank.

Ted Rheingold · 10 months ago

Nick,

I follow you exactly. I even think your idea is realistic - twitter does know who is worthy or not - but I bet the payoff for them to do it (and deal with all the spam abuse tactics) would make it very difficult for the them to prioritize.

But it is a shame that all these highly credible link authority events happen that are ignored.

However, the whispers are that googlebot doesn't ingore nofollow links in it's quest for every page on the Internet. The further speculation is that for certain sites they know to be pretty credible, such as wikipedia, they may even be adding that link to their authority ranking. So it's conceivable they are already doing it for twitter ... but that latter part is mostly conjecture.

Corvida Raven · 10 months ago

I understand your dilemma, but SEO juice is not the point of Twitter. Screw the juice, I'll take the visitors any day!

Sue Adams · 9 months ago

It would be great if all the Twitter links would count towards SEO. We need all the help we can get!

Daiv Russell · 9 months ago

Social Media is about people. If you leverage the power of the medium the way it's intended to be used, you'll get more traffic from Twitter than you would have from SEO. Sure, it takes "time" to get to a point where people care about what you have to say, but Social Media is not about short cuts - it's about making real connections. If one's primary motivation for Twitter is to get more PageRank points, I say "stay out of my Twitterverse."

The last thing I want is for Twitter's bandwidth to be frittered away by the SEO inbound-link starved trolls out there.

- Daiv http://Twitter.com/DaivRawks

Anthony Hereld · 9 months ago

Twitter would turn into the world's largest link-baiting scam, and it would become less of a social resource. There are plenty of ways that Twitter generates SEO juice already without implementing nofollow.

virtuallin · 9 months ago

No, it would just invite a giant mess. I love inbound links as much as the next guy, but using Twitter as the mechanism would ruin it for me. Sure, maybe it will take longer to build up your links from visitors, readers, commenters - but those links will be more worthwhile to have IMHO.There is no quick fix - there are no shortcuts to SEO and the sooner everyone accepts that you'll have to work hard and deliver value to real humans to the point they link to you, the better for everyone.

Tweet Tweet No Money · 9 months ago

Most online success stories like Twitter keep ignoring the obvious: people want to make money online. This is so obvious that people cleverly disguise their true intentions. If you asked, I bet 70% of so of people on twitter have a hidden agenda: more traffic, more sales, more revenue. Especially in these tough economic times. The notion that one is going to sit at his computer all day doing tweets with nothing in return but some type of recognition or digital friendships is ludicrous. So, yes, SEO is needed, link backs, traffic, sales, revenue, etc. That's what people want. Who has the time to sit around doing blogs or tweets for no money? You've gotta be pretty lonely or be a social outcast if there is no monetray benefit in your online activities. To me, it's all about socializing and making money or it ain't worth my time. Life is too short to tweet it away.

ashbuckles · 9 months ago

I agree with Corvida; the juice is not the point of Twitter. Traffic follows excellent messages and conversations.

Ironically, your blog implements nofollow on urls within comments.

Rachel Levy · 9 months ago

I agree with you! There can be some sort of probation period for new users. After the probation period is over, the account is reviewed to see if it's spam or not (pretty easy to tell). Then, the "no-follow" is removed. Solves the problem, yet lets it count. Twitter is a HUGE source of traffic for all of us, it definintely should count!!

Seo Services India · 6 months ago

Ya Exactly. Twitter can automatically determine who is a spammer and who isn’t. Once that has been determined, the site can remove the “nofollow” tag from all users that aren’t spammers.

Rob · 6 months ago

That’s some interesting points you have raised. I wonder if it usually happens as you have said. Anyway I learnt something new all the same.

SEO Miami · 2 months ago

This is very interesting... This is really the problem about twitter.. I hope this will be solve now.. It is really nice that you are talking about this issue.. Great post..

Designer Sunglasses · 2 months ago

Great post.. Twitter is a big source of traffic for all of us here, it definitely should count!!

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maxyRO · 1 week ago

The answer is simple - twitter mobile version is without nofollow so you can drop your links there