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Went Hot: September 3, 2008 - 12:52 pm
Posted By: kevgibbo 90 days ago
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Category: Social Media
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Went Hot: September 3, 2008 - 12:52 pm
Posted By: kevgibbo 90 days ago
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Category: Social Media
12 Comments
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Thanks, Kev, for the writeup!
It would be appreciated if Twitter's founder responded and provided reasoning. Does Evan consider the previous following of bio links a "loophole?"
Enjoyed Nick Wildson's earlier post discussing Twitter bio follow and still a good read with a link to a good plugin for Firefox to identify search info about a website:
Bad move by Twitter. SEO's are right on this one.
Agreed. Matt seems keen on crippling the Internet until only Google decides which links are valid and which not.
Why did you speak up David...why.... :(
@JoshuaSciarrino
Seriously, you can't have a go at Dave here. Read my post - this was always a loophole, and very obviously overlooked by the Twitter devs. As I wrote there, if your SEO success depends on loopholes in Web 2.0 apps you have bigger problems than Twitter altering their code.
I'm not upset about loosing something that took seconds to set up. If you can't see a thousand other link opportunities to replace this, you're in the wrong job :)
@nickwilson It was partly a joke, partly seriously.
A joke cause it's funny.
Serious because...little sneaky tips like that are just known and are better NOT BLOGGED.
Obviously flaw in Twitter devs...but still.
My SEO success is nothing close to 'just twitter bio follow links'. If that were true...man, I'd need another job... (as you put it as well).
@JoshuaSciarrino IamEVIL lol... lets pretend that if we can create a NoFollow internet google has to fix their shit
Very interesting... will the SEO community continue to be such avid Twitter users now...?
James, it's still a good community, and I'm guessing people will still use it because there's an opportunity to keep abreast of so many different happenings on Twitter. Sure, this is a setback, but if people are only using Twitter for that link juice, then they're in the wrong community.
I was sad when I found out that the link on my biodata was stripped off...I just hope Twitter will return it again.
I suspect you're right Tamar. Although I'm not a user myself, it seems that there are plenty of benefits aside from link juice that will keep the SEO community engaged.
Get Satisfaction If Digg can give you a rel="me" twitter can get rid of the "no follow" and play nice. Spammer accounts and mass frienders should be punished with the rel="no follow". Oh and FYI rel="me no follow" means I don't trust myself. I wonder what Google thinks of that?
Services like Twitter, Mashable and Techcrunch need to come up with something better.