So, after leaving full time employment and becoming self employed I worked for a digital agency in Ipswich on a short contract. Whilst I was there I came to realise how important SEO is, I mean, I knew how important it was before but this place did it well, really well! So I knew if I was serious about my company being anything more than an umbrella for contracting I was going to have to attract people to my on-line presence which means doing a few SEO tricks.
First part of the plan is Twitter based, ever noticed that when you tweet about an unusual subject or something slightly of the norm you often get a flurry of new followers! So, as I was saying, here is the plan. Write a small on-line tool which will periodically scan RSS feeds from various sites, run all the articles through a set of user-defined (per-feed) filters, queue up the qualifying articles and then trickle those out via twitter.
That’s got to work, right?
Right now, @tactusworks has next to no followers, watch this space…
EDIT : as my friend Dan pointed out, this isn’t really SEO but in my mind it’s all for achieving the same thing which is making your audience more aware of your existence.
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haha, im interested to see how it works!
There’s a great article about twitter in regards to followers (can’t remember where) that talks about quantity vs quality. Having fewer followers with a larger ‘voice’ is much better than having way more followers with a lesser voice. By sending out random links, you’ll inevitably attract spam and non re-tweet type followers. It’ll be interesting to see nonetheless.
What’s the link with SEO Dan? Social Media Marketing yes but this method won’t have any bearing on search engine rankings, will it?
I recreated a suite of auto-populating news/football sites a couple of years ago. Under the guise of;
http://www.liverpoolfcsource.co.uk
http://www.mancitysource.co.uk/
http://www.midlandssource.co.uk/
etc…
There’s a round a dozen in all. My next step was integrate a connection to Twitter but, as you’ll see, around 6 months ago I switched off the spider as the burden of checking hundreds of feeds every five minutes was becoming too much on the server and I didn’t have a chance to optimize it.
Perhaps I’ll pick it up again one day…
Well, yes, you are right but it all fits in the general “getting people to notice you pot”.. smart arse
Actually I think its fair to say now that social media linking is actually SEO as the big boys definitely take backlinks from twitter and facebook conversation into account. http://www.socialtimes.com/2010/12/facebook-and-twitter-affect-seo-confirmed-by-google-and-bing/. So you were right the first time Dan
Of course you need to make sure some of those tweets link back to your own site.