Notice the the Nofollow on tweedeck !
DAven
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Why? What’s the point of them doing this? They manually approve every API application so it’s not as if they’ll be linking to dodgy territory.
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Damn, there goes my master plan of getting crazy link juice by inventing a new twitter client that all the cool kids would want to use
(never would have happened anyway)
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Arse. That didn’t last long then.
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They’re so petrified of SEOs trying to leverage their network (because that would be soooo evil)…. but about 80% of the IDs on there are autospam, blog feeds, auto-followed, value-free crap for pr0n, rubbish “marketing agencies” and some dude trying to prove a point by getting16000000 followers. Talk about priorities!
Memo to Twitter: instead of running from SEOs (who use your platform in some of the most innovative and interesting ways) why don’t you spend your time doing something else like – to pick an entirely random example – figuring out how to make some money?
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Well, it was done probably because of this http://www.gaetanbertin.com/search-engine-marketing/seo-how-to-enable-dofollow-on-twitter-to-pass-link-juice/
Not specifically this article but the fact it could be done.
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I think the point is, that their is an out of proportion number of “via client” links. So a lot of link juice is being transferred but not for any valid reason.
It’s not quite the same as “hey look at this site, its’ good”. It’s just a link generated by a system by a users action. So their is more value in not passing the link juice than passing it. Passing the link juice just distorts the value.
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we wouldn’t want to a bad effect with caffeine update would they..
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[...] fact, I agree with Adrian’s comment on David Naylor’s blog, it’s a right move from Twitter since whenever someone posts from tweetdeck, seesmic or any [...]
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Q: So what are the remaining dofollow links for Twitter ?
A: Login, Join Twitter!, footer links and @profile links –> Crap !Twitter, I frankly second Carps: stop your BS and go find some ROI methods!
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Ah, the blackhats publicised it too well – Twitter does seem a little paranoid about linking out. I wonder they haven’t realised they have gone beyond Google now?
I have to disagree with Adrian. Its not saying ‘I recommend this site’ its saying ‘I use this tool – it works well’
(and if it doesn’t work well, you’ll find something else to use – no new links.)
Can you think of anything that is more a ‘vote’ for the site.
Stupid Twitter. Just plain wrong. - 12
Lea,
I take your point but “I recommend this site” is one link. “I use this tool is 1 link per update”
A profile box that says “This user user these tools” and having that linked would be a more balanced link.
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Less than a week after Mr Zilla reported this on BHSEO the nofollow police arrive.
Knew it wouldn’t be long, but doubted it would be this quick!
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I’m not sure why this really applies to anyone except for the tool designers. They may see a decrease in inbound links. On the other hand, it will force the tool developers to create better tools that people will talk about elsewhere — a winning situation for all the us users.
Frankly, I find Twitter one of the most annoying of the social media networks, but unfortunately, one of the more necessary. At the end of the day, I really don’t care what tool someone is using — but I will agree with Adrian that passing all this link juice based on a user action is simply muddying the waters.
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It now makes it really bad on the eyes if you are on Twitter with your “no follow” highlight tool switched on.
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I agree Becky. I’m just seeing a sea of red now!
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If we look at the content from within which these links are contained, there are 3 scenarios:
1. The individual tweet
2. Somoene’s feed of other people’s tweets
3. Someone’s feed of their own tweetsThe amount of content that is relevant to the link on each of these pages is going to be minimal, and the link is a simple 301 from an empty page to the final landing page.
My question is, how much weight could we really put on links that are 301′d through a shortening service anyways? In all honesty?
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I think it is Twitter’s right to do whatever they please with the links within their own site. That said, I bet app developers are not very happy with this change: especially for widespread Twitter clients, it’s a good deal of free PageRank that suddenly stops flowing in. That’s a fact.
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I think it is right for Twitter to do it. Twitter should not be a tool for SEO.
It even applies to their own API link (e.g. “less than a minute ago from API”).
Perhaps that will drop the Twitter API from #4 in a Google search for “API”!