The Top 10 Twitter SEO Tips

1. Choose a good handle

Be sure to pick an optimal handle thats relevant to your brand or campaign and easy to remember. Your handle (also known as your Username) then becomes part of your customized Twitter URL such as twitter.com/yoursite or twitter.com/yourtopic. Doing this creates a static address for future search indexing, which also helps usability for other cross-channel promotions. So choose wisely! The fun challenge: doing all this while keeping your name short and succinct so its easily tweetable.

2. Select an account name wisely

Optimize the Twitter account name to best reflect your brand. Your name is what appears next to your profile, which can be different than your handle/URL. You obviously want an account name that promotes yourself, your company or your brand. You should also consider which variation of you brand name has the most search frequency every month.

3. Make your bio count

Optimize your Twitter pages Bio line so it includes the most important, mission-critical phrases for your brand. Take advantage of all 160 characters! (Yep, thats right: They give you 20 more characters than a normal tweet.) Your bio is consistently indexed so its contents are what provide your Twitter page with its core relevance.

4. Spread the word

Now think about ways to build the link reputation of this new found social web address. For example, you can integrate your Twitter URL into your website by placing a call to action on the site for your customers to follow you on Twitter. You could also integrate your Twitter URL within your sites Global Footer, which appears at the bottom of every page of your site. Both of these options offer usability to your site visitors and help drive your Twitter URL up in the search engines.

1) Choose a Twitter handle strategically – Twitter handle, which can be your name, company name, brand name, blog name and so on. While choose a twitter handle (your username) make sure it is relevant to your blog or website and is easy to remember as it is the part of the SEO title for the tweets appearing in Google search engine. For example if you are running iPhone blog then you can probably use twitter handle starting with iPhone.

2) Boost your Twitter Profile Page Rank

• Optimize your meta description - Your Twitter ‘bio’, is actually your meta description. Make sure to include keywords.
• Display web site’s URL – Do not forget to display URL of your blog or website prominently on your twitter profile page. This will eventually increase the organic traffic as people often click the URL for seeking more information. It is important to note that this link does not provide any SEO link juice due to a “Nofollow” attribute in place.
• Optimize your page description - Use target keywords on your profile page and make sure to use keywords in your Tweets.
• Create inbound links - Just post articles with an anchor text link to your Twitter profile on article syndication sites. This strategy helps in boosting your profile’s page rank.
• Direct relationship between followers and profile PageRank - If you have lots of followers you will be popular among twitter users, which will eventually boost page rank of your profile page.
• Place Twitter profile Link in footer or sidebar, which is accessible via every page.

3) Follow Related Theme Profiles Only – Search engines increases your twitter profile link juice when you are able to get followers from good PR twitter profiles. Make sure that you add only those twitter users that are related to your blog content or share tweets on similar interest. This will increase number of retweets and thereby traffic.

4) Use 301 permanent redirect, while shortening URL – TinyURL, bit.ly, tr.im are popular URL shortening services that redirect users to the real URL via 301 (permanent redirect) and provide backlinks to your content. Search engines do not index TinyURLs, but index and pass PageRank to the actual URLs instead.

5) Use desired keywords in tweet content – Twitter does not allow you to tweet for more than 140 characters. Instead of automatically shortening the links on twitter.com, it is strongly advised to use URL shortening service like bit.ly. Once your URL is shortened, you have much more space to include more target keyword into twitter content.

6) SEO Optimize Title of Tweets in Twitter – The most important part of your post for keyword/SEO consideration is the first 27 characters. It’s this first part that becomes part of the <TITLE> on your Twitter static pages. Twitter uses the following <TITLE> format:
Twitter / Your Username: 27 Characters

The same SEO rules that you apply to write optimized titles for the post must be used for twitter tweets as well. The only difference is that you have a restriction of 27 Characters as compared to 65 Characters in Blog Posts. For optimized tweets use keyword rich Titles within first 27 characters.

7) Use Hashtags in Tweets – Hashtags are similar to keyword meta-data. Basically, these are tags that that help those who seek similar content discover your Tweets. They’re like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. Hashtags are created by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag. This will help the visitors to view your tweet around a particular topic. To search most recent and hot hashtags visit #hashtags.org. Alternatively, you can use Twemes.com to find new hashtags.

8) Retweet Startegy – An indexed tweet provides 27 characters or so for title post excluding ‘Twitter / Your Username: ‘

Make sure your tweet’s character limits allow for optimal retweets. It is important to keep the tweet under 125 characters, allowing your followers to add “RT @yourname” in front of the tweet.

The original <title> of the Tweet is now truncated, with no keyword in place. To show link love some of us delete all the “RT @yourname” text before retweeting into the Twitter Network. But it is not advisable, as the strategy could have adverse impact on your twitter profile pagerank. Instead you can add the RT @Username at the end of the Retweeted content.

9) Tweet in order to get your article retweeted – This is the most important part for getting huge twitter traffic. In order to get more traffic and relevance to your tweet make sure that you retweets, other blog articles and encourage others twitter users to share (retweet) your Twitter content. Keep in mind the Retweet strategy discussed above.

10) Tweet and retweet relevant content timely – Make sure you are tweeting and retweeting articles keeping your followers and blog content in mind. If you are hosting a blog on windows 7 and tweets on windows 7 and H1N1 Tips simultaneously, then Google search engine may not love your twitter profile. This exercise may result in decrease in number of followers as well. Only share the links when you feel it should be, do not spam the twitter.

Superb information and really good to sharing with everyone.

Hi
Thanks i was thing of using twitter for my site ,it will be useful for me.
Regards

Twitter is a very good source for traffic. These tips will be very much useful to use that effectively and gaining traffic.

superb information and thanks for sharing information.

Twitter had been a useful online marketing tool for business owners

Thanks buddy, I was unaware of such information.

It's a way to keep family, friends, and coworkers connected with what an individual is doing by using an instant messenger service, the web, as well as with mobile texting plus other venues.

Twitter offers a simple way for people to connect. it's asks one question… “What are you doing?” answer must within 140 character and you can send it via mobile text, messanger or web.
after that Twitter’s engineering team works with an open-source web application framework and make it usable to user so after that user simply type the msg and it goes to twitter database and send out to our groups.

Tips:
1. Set up your profile
2. Follow people with similar interests
3. Get into the conversation
4. Don’t spam
5. Update daily
6. Find the latest buzz and contribute
7. Help other people out
8. Create relationships
9. Integrate Twitter with other social networks
10. Establish relationships even outside Twitter

Hope, it could be helpful for internet marketing people to use twitter in the right way to grab more traffic.