Using twitter to boost organic rankings
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I was told that Google uses Twitter traffic as a ranking factor. How could i use Twitter to boost the rankings of my website? i play in a live band if that helps you to generate some ideas for me.
Thanks in advance for everyone's input!
Ron
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It's important to look at Twitter as a way to engage with your fans and get your content out there rather than solely as a way to increase your rankings. If you're not there to interact with people, you'll find that they get uninterested quickly. The same goes for Facebook, Google+, etc.
I love the idea that Aran mentioned about having a Youtube channel. You can do a lot with that and even could post the videos on your site and tweet those links. One of the greatest things I've found though is to simply ask! Ask your Twitter followers what they'd like to see from you on Twitter. People LOVE giving their opinions so I'm sure you'll get some feedback. You could try that on Facebook and Google+ as well.
The idea really is to get a group of fans who are interested in what you're writing about or posting on your site as well. Maybe it's tour dates, or posts about your concerts, but something that gets people interested enough to tweet and retweet.
Hope this helps a bit!
Jen
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If you want to boost your organics and social media, you need to look at all the options, not just Twitter.
For Google, use Google+ (I've already +1ed things and seen immediate, short-term results) and for Bing use Facebook and Twitter.
However, it's really important that you don't focus on these things too much, they are short term gainers, whereas link building and getting the site in order from A-Z will be much better in the long term.
Also things like blogger out-reach etc is important - they are still partly a social signal - and their links will last a lot longer than Twitter mentions etc.
Hope this helps.
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Hi Ron,
You need to put the Tweet this syle buttons on your website and get people to share the page amongst there pages. There are plenty of ways to encourage people to share th content, but by far the most effective is to have some awesome content...perhaps you have recorded a song or covered a popular song, you could offer it as a free download when people tweet the page?
When Elbow covered beyonce's track Independent Woman the social sphere went crazy!!!
Do you have a youtube channel?
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Hi Ron,
Yes it is widely known that Google uses Twitter as a ranking factor. Linked URLs etc... These are part of Social Metrics and Google+ as well as Facebook are part of this.
SEOmoz did a few lovely experiemnts related to this here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/do-tweets-still-effect-rankings
Essentially the SEO value of using any of these social sites would be similar in effect as to what hHigh Authority websites are. If you Tweet frequently and have a significant volume of other similarly active followers you influence is higher. Tweets and even re-tweets can influence this. I would recommend tweeting with purpose and linking out to core valuable pages where you can with context.
-Phil G
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