Building Links with Twitter
YuryB | November 14th, 2011 - 4:24 pmCreating social connections is becoming more and more important to SEO efforts. Social media sites were once a novelty with no obvious use. Today they can provide significant SEO benefits, and a good example involves building links with Twitter.
In Casey Henry’s recent post, “Yes, You Really Can Build Links With Twitter – Whiteboard Friday” SEOmoz’s Rand Fishkin presents eight tactics for you to try. Here are five that can provide quality links quickly.
Offer to help:
When someone tweets about a problem you know you can help with, offer to do so. Do it well and for free, and most people will tweet about it and link to you.
Create story summaries:
Stories on social media sites tend to be fragmented and get lost as time passes and the posts are mixed with other stories. Curate them, create a cohesive story and then tweet about it, with a link to your summary. Summify is a good tool to help with this.
Give link suggestions:
If someone has written a post that misses some point that you’ve covered, suggest that he or she add that information, and provide a link to your post. This works best when you already have a relationship with the person.
Answer queries:
When you see the same question popping up repeatedly on social media sites, create content that covers the topic thoroughly and then point askers to it.
Offer testimonials:
If you’ve written a blog post praising someone’s product or service, tweet or direct message the person with a link to it and an offer of a testimonial to use on his or her website.
Check out Rand’s video for his other tips, as well as additional ideas on how to accomplish all of his tactics. Try at least one and see how it works for you.
Information in this post gathered in association with a New York injury attorney.
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