Must Do Twitter SEO Tips

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I think it is crazy when I come across a Twitter account that doesn’t have a bio section filled in or even a URL in the domain section. How can you forget to put your website domain in your profile? Here are some ways to really keep your SEO elements moving in the right direction with your Twitter account.

Here are some of the top must do Twitter SEO tips to consider:

URL: Probably the most important thing. Don’t forget to have your URL visible in your profile. It only takes a few seconds to type in.
User Name: Your user name is also going to be listed in your domain so chose one wisely. If you pick something to cutesy you will have no chance of ranking in search results for your targeted keywords.

Description: Your description is used as the meta tag information for your profile so you can see where this would come in very handy to have optimized for your targeted keywords. Are you starting to see the overall goal of optimizing your profile?

Background: Take advantage of using your background to get more of your messaging across. You are allowed to upload your own background image so use it to either further your business brand or you can use the right hand side of the background to list some information about your services or your business.

Personality: Don’t let your profile seem like just a business even though you might be there to generate new leads. Try adding some personality to your profile. Ask your followers questions, have a contest show your audience that there is a human being behind that Twitter profile.

Hash Tags: This one is often overlooked by many people. If you drop a “#” before a word like SEO or any other keyword you might be targeting this will allow your tweet to show up in search results for when others search for that keyword.

Whenever dealing with any online social network or even a business profile optimization and SEO elements are very important. It doesn’t mean that it will rank all the time but if you are spending the time to create a profile you might as well make it 100% efficient in order to increase the possibilities of that profile ranking in search results.

15 Responses to “Must Do Twitter SEO Tips”

Adam Heaton says:

May 25, 2010 at 3:35 pm

Very good post, I myself have used these steps on my account before this post but I’m sure it will help novices who didn’t know they could optimise their Twitter account.
Barbara Bruce says:

May 25, 2010 at 7:24 pm

Once again, thanks for the specifics you always put in your articles! I never even heard of a Hash Tag, and now I know how to use one (almost) lol. I’m eating this stuff up!
Nick Stamoulis says:

May 25, 2010 at 7:51 pm

Thanks Barbara for reading! Glad these Twitter SEO tips could help you!
Eric says:

May 31, 2010 at 2:39 am

Twitter is a powerful tool and every marketer should use it well. But don’t ever abuse it well
Website Promotion Blog says:

June 2, 2010 at 5:46 am

I have the same issue with those people who don’t write anything on their bio to introduce themselves. Even some so-called cool sentence that doesn’t describe what’s in this account won’t help. I’d rather the bio that give me at least some general idea about what I should expect there following that account.
Nick Stamoulis says:

June 2, 2010 at 11:23 am

Hi Website Promotion Blog,
So very true having a well written bio is essential and it is amazing to see the Twitter profiles that don’t use this feature to its capacity…thanks for reading and your comment!
David Wilkes says:

June 21, 2010 at 3:23 pm

Nick, another great post. I think I had been using Twitter for about a month and then found out about the ‘wall paper’ which has proved to be a great chance to let people know about our Free Phone Number and portfolio, nevermind our ‘red lion’ brand.
The salient point for me was ‘#’ tag. I’ve used it a few times when going on a big push for things and use it when posting blogs. Not enough people use them.
Backlink Booster says:

June 21, 2010 at 3:27 pm

Thanks for the advice on the hash tag Nick…didn’t realize that one.

And I like the new look of your blog…thumbs up!
Derek Pennycook says:

June 21, 2010 at 3:39 pm

Love the posts – quick and straight to the point – infact I am off to do my twitter background now!
Kelly Marsh says:

June 21, 2010 at 4:44 pm

Good tip on the description. I forgot about that one!
andrea says:

June 21, 2010 at 7:21 pm

Hi Nick,
i’m an italian follower of your beautiful blog.
Some italian “SEO guru” claims hashtags are deprecated for promotion.
I think one have not to misuse hashtag, just like link stuffing or keyword stuffing, but do you thing hashtags use is now ended?

Thank you in advance
Santos Christo says:

June 21, 2010 at 7:37 pm

SEO copywriting is an provocative, fairly new niche in freelance writing. Your writting style is very SEO friendly. I’m taking notes. Any tips?
Nick Stamoulis says:

June 22, 2010 at 12:09 am

Hi Backlink Booster,
Thanks, glad you like the new look!

Hi Andrea,
I think the hashtag is still effective but very much overused, so it has diminished its effectiveness, for sure. Thanks for reading and your comment!

Hi Christo,
Thanks for reading and your comment. The key to good SEO copywriting is writing for humans FIRST (aka your visitors) and the search engines a DISTANT 2nd…I am a firm believer in natural content optimziation, it tends to provide a much better user experience overall…
Bob Garrett says:

June 22, 2010 at 1:13 am

Good stuff – keep them coming Nick
Nick Stamoulis says:

June 22, 2010 at 1:21 am

Thanks Bob, will do! Thanks for reading!