Twitter: A Powerful SEO Tool?

Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Thursday, January 17, 2008 Comments (2)

One of my favorite blogs, Marketing Pilgrim, wrote up a nice piece today about Internet marketers using Twitter. I’m assuming you know about Twitter by now. The interesting thing about the article is that it lists 75+ Internet marketers who use Twitter. Now, I know there are more than 75 Internet marketers in the world. But I also know that the best Internet marketers don’t jump on a bandwagon unless there is some value in it. I was surprised to see some of the biggest names in SEO and Internet marketing on the list. Here are just a few:

  • Andy Beal
  • Brian Chappell
  • Andy Beard
  • Bill Slawski
  • Duncan Riley
  • Graywolf
  • Greg Boser
  • Jason Calacanis
  • Jennifer Laycock
  • Jill Whalen
  • Jeremiah Owyang
  • Lee Odden
  • Lisa Barone
  • Problogger
  • Rand Fishkin
  • Rene Lemerle
  • Rusty Brick
  • Robert Scoble
  • SERoundtable
  • Sugarrae
  • TheNanny612
  • Vanessa Fox

And that’s not even the whole list. There are many more!

Twitter has a PageRank of 8. That’s at least as high as many social bookmarking sites that have been around a lot longer. Del.icio.us is at a PR 8. Digg has a PR 8. StumbleUpon has a PR 8.

With a PR comparable to the most trafficked social bookmarking sites online, you know there has to be some serious link juice in using Twitter. I know that’s not why these savvy Internet marketers are using it. The social benefits are just as powerful as the SEO benefits, but that does give you something to think about, doesn’t it?

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2 Comments

Comment by Brian Chappell

Made Thursday, 17 of January , 2008 at 7:08 pm

“biggest names in SEO”

Well I wouldn’t say that. But hey, Thanks for the thought!!

Comment by Spyros Papaspyropoulos

Made Monday, 4 of February , 2008 at 6:57 pm

Hi Nick,
Are you on twitter?
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