Social Tweeting Outstrips Social Linking 100-1 by Andrew Goodman, Traffick.com (July 30)
Interesting view - more linking to and recommending of pages (urls) is being done through Twitter rather than through websites or blogs with "authority". What effect does this have on search engines that use link analysis and specifically Google's PageRank? Digg and others like it would be contributing to this change too (though I think they would lose to Twitter as well).
Goodman writes, "Comparing old time linking to new-school tweeting, recent posts we've made here have been spontaneously tweeted and retweeted all over the place; a 100-1 ratio of tweets to regular links is roughly in the ballpark. No going around asking people to do it. Just the Twitter community and typical code of behavior working its magic."
Posted by Gwen at July 31, 2009 10:09 AM