Twitter Feeds - Linkbait, Link Building & Social Bookmarking
Twitter April 16th, 2008I decided to have a little fun today and created a page publishing tweet scan feeds based on search terms like linkbait, link building, and social bookmarking. Potentially, I can now find out about new sites and strategies pertaining to these topics all on one page instantly. Leave a comment below if there’s anything else you’d like me to add.
April 16th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Nice idea Brendan - I have been playing around a bit with the Hashtags project as well, but this is an interesting resource.
Quick question - are you using a commercial plugin to generate the RSS information without ads? Or did you custom build a solution to pull the feeds in?
April 16th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
This is a custom built solution using RSS parser SimplePie. Really easy to use and setup. If you get stuck, there are plenty of resources out there that can help you fine tune your php.
April 16th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Appreciate the tip on SimplePie - thanks!
April 16th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Derek: in your opinion do you think publishing a page like this on your site with relevant tweets could help you in the serps?
April 16th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Correction to last, I met Brendan! duh…
April 16th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Hi Chris,
It may. Twitter has specified a crawl delay so having these feeds posted to your site instantaneously would give you some new content before the SERPs get it. When the SERPS do find the twitter content and find the same content on your site, the SEs might rank Twitter ahead of you. You could always test this by searching for a tweet title posted at both places. There is no penalty for dupe content, the SEs just give ranking priority to authority domains.