This is huge news for the world of search engine organic placement and inbound link creation if you did not understand these recent releases from both Bing and from Google.
First the background:
Bing is to index Twitter tweets and Facebook status updates:
Google is to indext Twitter tweets:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/rt-google-tweets-and-updates-and-search.html
If you are not already using Twitter this is an excellent reason to start right away. Not only will this new decision by the search engines allow inclusion of the very freshest news and updates in their index via rabid Twitter users who want to tweet just about everything, but tweets with links will be indexed too.
At least the indexing of tweets and links appears to be in the offing at this early stage. Meaning specifically that if you link to your website in tweets, you may now be driving search traffic not just Twitter user traffic, you may build web authority, and may even now use tweets as entry points to your blog or website. Additionally if Google or Bing count the links as inbound links – WOW! Now we just don’t know for sure if the real SEO benefits mentioned will stay in the mix until tweets start to be indexed and we can really evaluate traffic and if the engines filter tweets in some way to prevent organic benefits, but the potential benefits of this announcement to tweeters is huge!
So if you are not involved in Twitter why take a change that one of the biggest new ways to drive search traffic to your site will pass you by? Build your base before there is a huge rush. Establish your account as an authority now and not a newbie that will be lost in the shuffle.
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It will be interesting to see if the tweets will show up in a relevant way (i.e. a trending news topic vs. a potentially more spammy topic)
Ooh oops i just typed a huge comment and as soon as i hit post it came up blank! Please please tell me it worked properly? I do not want to write it again if i dont have to! Either the blog glitced out or i am an idiot, the second option doesnt surprise me lol.