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Google Rewards Twitter Celebs & Influencers

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:14:24 +0000

Everyone’s Tweeting these days. Name a celeb and we bank they have a Twitter account. Last month, the NY Post reported that Kim Kardashian makes 10K for endorsed tweets. And a quick visit to Twitter’s search directory, WeFollow , this morning confirmed the number one Twitterer as Ashton Kutcher , with over four million followers. But if you’re a Twitter nerd (meaning: you “follow” but no one “follows” you back), listen up. According to Amit Singhal, a Google Fellow: “One user following another in social media is analogous to one page linking to another on the Web. Both are a form of recommendation,” Singhal says. “As high-quality pages link to another page on the Web, the quality of the linked-to page goes up. Likewise, in social media, as established users follow another user, the quality of the followed user goes up as well.” Read the full story. Thanks to Google’s ranking system with Twitter, there are strategic ways to turn yourself from Twitter nerd to pseduo-Twitter celeb. You know when you search Google for something and lots of relevant links pop up? Well now Google is including Tweets in real-time searches [the project is led by our man Singhal]. This is good news for Twitterers with business goals and objectives in mind. To rise in the ranks of Google with your tweets, all you have to do is get a few Twitter power players to “follow” you back and you rise in the ranks of Google automatically. It doesn’t matter if you have a gazillion followers. If just one of your followers is someone reputable like Ashton or Kim, you gain the sort of Twitter entitlement of royalty. You get? So now it’s time for you to log onto Twitter and target a Twitterer with superhero powers and somehow get them to follow you. Let us know how you fare. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Google Rewards Twitter Celebs &

Help Improve Google Voice Transcription Quality

cgseo — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:15:22 +0000

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Bing.com/Twitter Results Beta

cgseo — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:43:54 +0000

As mentioned in my post yesterday, Tweets are now appearing in the Bing.com/Twitter search results Beta. Bing Twitter Results Beta I just replied to a Tweet and found it seconds later in Bing’s Twitter search results Beta. Although this search result is relevant to the search term, I am not yet convinced publishing Tweets in the broader search index other than for news related terms will have any value to the search audience. Particularly if Twitter search results are any indication of the quality of information being Tweeted by the Twitter community. I think Bing being first mover in real time integration of Tweets into search results may ultimately dilute the value of what search results quality they already have. After studying Tweets from within a 100 mile radius of my city for two weeks straight, I found there is a significant descrepancy between the number of quality Twitter signals to the sheer amount of Twitter noise. As Bing advances down the real time search path vis-a-vis Twitter, I am certain they will discover much the same.

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