Twitter: wr…wr… ong!
I admit it… I made a foolish blunder.
I trusted my SEOQuake add-on for Firefox to tell me about Twitter. It was showing that I had links coming back from my profile and that they were “do follow” links, when ehhhhhhh…. (See http://ovblogger.com/1694/google-ranks-twitter-profiles/)
Someone questioned me on this, and so, I went into the page source for my Twitter profile page and there you see it [rel="nofollow"] right in the code.
Somebody shoot me.
Everything I wrote in that Twitter post is wrong. Don’t use your Twitter page for sending links anywhere because the spiders can’t follow them. So, it really doesn’t matter if your page is a PR10, it doesn’t help.
But here’s the thing that will be cool: The most visitors you get to your Twitter profile and the higher your page rank goes, the higher your profile page will go int the SERPs. You ‘ll get traffic to your links just because people want to find out more about you. So…
Tweet away. Don’t go nuts thinking that you’ll get link juice from Twitter, though, because it just ain’t going to happen.
Grr… SEOQuake. I really like that add-on, but if I have to go back and double check everything it tells me… ppfffftttt!!!
Mea culpa.
