SEO and Micro Blogging
Over the last 2 months Ive been running some tests on Twitter and Identi.ca to see how useful they could be for SEO purposes. Using the default URL conversion method although easy had no real impact.
I tried an online URL shortening service which allowed a level of customisation and tracking. Good tool but not that helpful with what i was testing.
Then i bought my own short domain name (3 characters with a .eu extension)
I started using this new short domain as a manual URL shortener to create custom 301’s to live sites and pages.
Having this level of control allows me to use keywords within the 301 redirect for example; http:// w1z.eu/keyword/keyword/keyword/ redirects to whateveryouwant.com
So far using this custom method of 301s I have noticed the following;
New domain names indexed within an average of 24 hours. (no other links or submissions)
New domains ranking for the targeted keywords, within a couple of days. (geographic and non geographic phrases)
New pages on existing sites have been indexed within approx 12 hours and have started to rank pretty well for the targeted phrases.
Note: All domains and new pages tested were also internally optimised before being indexed using this method.
Its been an interesting test and in most cases revealed some pretty good results.
I would be interested to hear about any other tactics relating to Micro Blogging and SEO.
