Twitter Search Becomes A Search Engine – Add To Your SEO To Do List
May 8th, 2009
Who says that Twitter and SEO do not go together? Wednesday night, Santosh Jayaram, the Vice President of Twitter Operations stated that Twitter Search will begin to crawl links submitted to its application and will index the content of those pages.
It will also incorporate a reputation ranking system based upon the reputation of the person submitting the article. When a topic is gaining popularity within Twitter it will insert it within the Twitter Sidebar.
The reputation system will certainly improve the quality of search results that Twitter Search provides, which currently displays low-value content and plenty of re-tweets.
Hopefully these changes will influence Twitters to add more meaningful content to their tweets. Still, there will be those who will always want to manipulate the ranking system so let’s hope Twitter Search has a few tricks up their sleeves to combat this.
For SEO professionals and their clients, Twitter Search has just become an essential item on our To Do lists.
Source: CNET News
