Comments on: Twitter SEO – the Future of Keywords

By: Dan Stocker

Dan Stocker — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:19:01 +0000

I agree that keywords are important today. How could they not be? And sure, you should be tweeting with certain practical rules in mind, so the essence and impact of your message doesn’t get lost in a retweet or reply.

Nevertheless, I would refrain from stating that keywords are “one way to search this data that will always be true”. Keywords are our unfortunate heritage from the pre-web era when we used search with text documents. We’re dragging this litter ever since like a broken trailer.

Keywords will diminish sooner than we’d think. Just think about natural language processing in the semantic web. Of course there are more drastic attempts at getting rid of keywords, but those are in an early experimental phase.

@DanielStocker

By: Jason Murphy

Jason Murphy — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:02:26 +0000

I agree with you 100% John. I think Joshua might have taken your comment a little too personally. Twitter is a conversation tool. IMHO I see it more valuable as a communication engine that will become integrated into devices like Cars (GPS tweets location), local business review sites like @foursquare and possibly payments.

For me SEO is trite. Good SEO is simple, tell the truth about yourself and do it often and couth – Google will follow.

By: Gloria

Gloria — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:02:58 +0000

Very useful tips. Thanks for sharing! :)

By: Background Checks International

Background Checks International — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:26:18 +0000

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By: Kruse Internet Services

Kruse Internet Services — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:41:20 +0000

I don’t follow keywords, I follow people. If they’re interesting in themselves (Wil Wheaton) or they pass on interesting links (Lew Rockwell – economist) then they stay on my list. I tweet back and forth with a name SEO I know now and then, and also one or two folk I know personally. But mostly I check people out, see if they have interesting to say. I’ve tried following industry leaders, but these guys don’t make great tweeters. I think myself longterm to market on Twitter you’ll have to research someone with many genuine followers who’ll be interested in your product, and get him/her to tweet about it. Twitter isn’t anything we know, it’s its own thing, and it’s developing still. It’s personality-driven, it’s most akin to broadcasting. Everyone who tweets is a DJ with their own radio station, and you find stations you like and tune into all of them.

By: Yuval Ararat

Yuval Ararat — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:40:15 +0000

Escuse me John but according to your comment
“Keywords are not (and probably will never be) how information spreads via Twitter. Conversations, RTs and Community should be your focus.”
How will i find my group to join to? how will groups unite to make bigger groups? what is the way that information is to flow amongst groups?
Since we are talking about information there should be some way to link information.
What is the replacement of keywords?
Dont beat me if it is hiding in one of your posts i nearly trying to understand.

By: Joshua Odmark

Joshua Odmark — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:51:04 +0000

Clearly you’re onto something advanced.

So advanced that it is beyond our understanding and that of Twitter.

You should direct message @Twitter with your findings. Don’t forget to send them the titles of the books you mentioned.

They must have this keyword thing all wrong. They are using natural keywords and hash tag keywords as trending topics to “spread information on Twitter”.

By: John Carcutt

John Carcutt — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:29:02 +0000

WOW .. thought you were trying to understand my point of view .. my mistake.

I take it back, don’t email or DM me please. Anyone else interested in my point of view… feel free.

No point in beating a dead horse, done here.

By: Joshua Odmark

Joshua Odmark — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:24:55 +0000

“Keywords are not (and probably will never be) how information spreads via Twitter.”

What do you call trending topics?

“I wouldn’t worry to much about Twitter being indexed in search engines until they fix their duplicate content issue with http: and https:”

That was never a focus of the article.

Just because spammers use a service does not make it a bad service. And just because you don’t see the value of it doesn’t mean it doesn’t have any value.

By: John Carcutt

John Carcutt — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:08:15 +0000

7 minutes ago from the Founder of Social Media Club @chrisheuer

“#tweetersbeware phishers, scammers and cybertheft rings are using trending hashtags to get you to visit their sites”

http://twitter.com/chrisheuer/status/2280555949