Social Networking & SEO

Social Networking has changed the way people communicate online, whether it be facebook for keeping in touch with friends, twitter for following your favourite celebs or linked-in for talking business, there's no doubt social networking sites play a huge role in modern society. A lot of businesses (including ours) use social networking sites to help promote their business online and today the Shy Studios team take a look at Twitter and how you can use this very smart "tweeting" tool to have a positive effect on your online advertising.

For thousands of businesses advertising online, Twitter has become one of the most popular methods of keeping prospected and existing customers informed of the latest product news and recent events within your company. It is a fantastic way of communicating with a huge audience whilst helping to improve your current search engine standing, so we have listed a few tips below to help you make the most of your Twiiter profile and improve your search engine rankings.

Make The Most Of Twitter

Twitter Links

Google displays Twitter Links in the SERPS page now, even though they are NOFOLLOW links, they can still aide in linkbuilding campaigns, and getting traffic to your website.

Hash Tags

Hash Tags (#webdesign, #seo) Hash tags on Twitter is a feature that basically functions like Meta data for your tweets. These are tweets that start with the "#" symbol and can be included in front of words you want to organize and trend on twitter.

Twitter Mentions

You've probably seen it a million times if you are a regular Twitter user, its the "@" symbol. You place the "@" in front of another users Twitter name and it creates a reply or mention of that user. You can use mentions to share links and other information on Twitter. If a new user follows you, send them a mention/reply and say something like "@"UserName – thanks for following me, check out my website at http://www.shystudios.co.uk. This lets the person that just followed you know that you are a live person, maintaining your Twitter account!

Tweet Interval

You don't want to keep tweeting and tweeting and tweeting, without taking a breather in between. This will cause the people that do follow you to ignore your updates, which would cancel out the whole SEO strategy incorporating Twitter. Try to limit your tweets, if you are tweeting deals on products you sell, limit them to every few hours to once a day. Leave some room in between.