How Google and Twitter Deal Impact on SEO
Google recently announced it’s deal with Twitter to include tweets in there search results (to be release in the upcoming months). This is in direct competition with the current Bing Twitter deal and raises several questions about how Google will treat tweets.
Google will apparently show relevant tweets from twitter that will be useful to viewers. I’m sure there will be a complex algorithm developed to do this as Google give an example of skiing conditions at your favorite ski resort as a place where twitter results will show up.
So not all result will include tweets from twitter. One thing they did not announce was exactly where these tweets will be displayed. From past additions to Google search results we can only image they will show up at the top of the results, such as where Google’s map listings usually show up or at the bottom of the search results like where related search query links show up. Only time will tell which it is.
This placement of tweets can have a significant impact on SEO. Think about it if twitter results appear at the top of the results pages then users might be more included to click on or just read the tweets rather than to click on a site. I’m assuming you will be able to click on some sort of link associated with displayed tweets.
That also brings up another good question. Will Google display links as click-able from tweets? If so this could be a fast track to getting your site on the top of Google. All you would have to do is tweet about relevant subjects that show up in Google and include a link back to your site. It sounds pretty simple but we’ll have to see once Google releases tweets in their search results.
How will this effect SEO..? You can read more from our blog on the subject, www.seosean.com/blog/twitter-tweets-in-google-search-results
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