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John Honeck - http://twitter.com/johnweb
You don’t need the ‘http://’ part actually.
Willy Franzen
I’m wondering if this might be going away soon.
http://twitter.com/mattcutts/statuses/865610396
VaBeachKevin - http://www.vabeachkevin.com
Time to do something will all those ‘extra’ twitter accounts I may or may not have ๐
Edward Beckett - http://www.edwardbeckett.com
Dave … that’s pretty cool … I was seeing the red nofollow indicator just the other day and was wondering how I could get a little link love from twitter … thanks for the FYI …
and FYI … I love your stuff …
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Have A Nice Day … ๐
Sean Maguire - http://www.360sell.com
This is old news. I currently have 4 or 5 links on each account. Looks like Matt Cutts has taken the initiative to plug the hole in this PR dyke. Nice work.
DaveN
Never said it was a new, Scoble has been doing it for ages as well ..
DaveN
John Cronin - http://www.upthejunction.com
Ta for the tip
Excuse my ignorance but what does the ‘me’ bit do in the rel=”me nofollow” ?
SEO for firefox doesn’t pick it up as a no-follow link by the looks.
John
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Nick Stamoulis - http://www.brickmarketing.com
Nice Tip! There are always tricks to learn :o)
Thanks very much,
Nick
DaveN
it’s the identity consolidation within the XFN1.1 framework you have a few other like friend etc ///
check out linkedin and facebook etc they use them as well
Dave
Sean Carlos - http://www.antezeta.com/blog/
Google can help show you some of the relationships it knows about from blogrolls and the like via the Google Social Graph: http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/ – i.e. this stuff isn’t as esoteric as you might think, someone is using it ๐
gerben - http://twitter.com/gerben
@willy franzen,
Why would they change it? Let’s be honest, it’s a microblog, on every single blog you’ve got a blogroll, right? so why not an search engine friendly backlink? Pfff….
Ok, we’ve got spammers also, but as long as internet exists, we will have those. Do the good guys have to suffer from the stupidities from the bad guys?
Neah, would we?
Willy Franzen
Why else would Matt Cutts send the Twitter founder a note about this?
If Twitter doesn’t nofollow it, the links will probably just get devalued anyways.
I’m not agreeing with the practice, just saying what’s probably going to happen. My solution would be to close this loophole and allow the website link to be followed. Twitter should be banning off spammers anyway, so it would be a nice way to reward loyal users.
Mike Dammann - http://www.firetown.com
Of course twitter has to be down for maintenance right now.
avi - http://promediacorp.com
also works on plurk, for those of you who are trying to get on twitter now, and are being greeted by the giant whale.
David Brown - http://neo1seo.com
Great tip Dave! my bio area is keyword stuffed to trigger the filter at twellow ๐ now to add a link to the already spammy bio ๐ I’ll be sure and mention this on todays SEO 101 show – link building 101 part duex.
db
Marc - http://congressratings.com/
that link should be followed because it is something relevant to the persons profile.
i think using nofollows on links like this by sites which get all of their content from users is abuse.
delicious and stumbleUpon nofollow all links out like they are not relevant…
…meanwhile all of their content is derived from these links! so they are the ultimate abusers of the nofollow tag. THEY HAVE NO ORIGINAL CONTENT
Ken - http://www.digitalovercast.com
@gerben – agreed, it’s part of the blogger’s profile for followers who are interested in learning more about the person. Great tip Dave!
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Nick
Looks like Twitter has removed live url linking from the bio section of the site, too. Which is fine, but I don’t see what the harm is with linking to it’s users?
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Allen Harkleroad - http://fvrit.com
Identi.ca allows www. links in the details/bio. I wonder how long before they make the same change as Twitter (no active www. links in the Bio)?
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songokuze - http://www.qsoftvietnam.com/
Thanks. Nice tips
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praveen - http://www.tendernews.com
It not bad idea about twitter web ( www.) link or web link has to be made as “no follow” attribute . Yet “Bio” Field still ” link follow” the spider.
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kishosingh - http://seoonlinemarketing.blogspot.com/
Then have you any idea about dofollow on twitter? I had post a link on my twitter account : http://twitter.com/kishosingh. Now the link is showing a back link from twitter. What about it?
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soregrapes - http://www.soregrapes.com/
that was wonderful piece of information
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Paul Millard - http://www.paulmillard.com
Just signed up to twittter. Shame about the nofollow on the bio.
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Steve SEO UK - http://www.linkedin.com/in/stevelodge
Nofollow is still a backlink even if it doesn’t pass on PR.
Thanks for info.
Following you on Twitter.
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richardbaxterseo - http://seogadget.co.uk/
So m.twitter.com’s still working then mate…
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Name - http://www.reliable-hosts.com
DO you use html tags or no?
john - http://piggybanksforkidss.com
does anyone know if we have to put the whole html hyperlink tag or simply the web address with the http in front of it?
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John Scott Cothill
… I know this is an old thread, but thought I’d stick this somewhere related! ๐
I was just typing up a status update for one of my clients and I was referencing Arnold Schwarzenegger – but instead of just mentioning people, I like to link to their profile.
I wasn’t sure what the Gov’s @ link was so I Googled ‘arnold schwarzenegger twitter’.
So, I found the link, but I thought it was very bizarre that Google links to http://twitter.com/Schwarzenegger?utm_medium=email&utm_source=follow&utm_campaign=twitter20080331162631 (email tracking URL)
Instead of plain and simple;
http://twitter.com/Schwarzenegger
Odd, eh? Especially as the email tracking URL only has a handful of links pointing to it, while the other has thousands.
Would love to know what you guys think.
jisoft - http://twitter.com/jisoft
i am also looking for dofollow back link from twitter site, i am going to using davidnaylor method i hope its will be work, Thanks davidnaylor for sharing this wonderfull trick, keep it up, Thanks
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style architecture - http://architecture-gratuit.perso.sfr.fr/
sorry but your url has the attribute “nofollow” (according to my seoquake device)
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Kevin Morales - http://www.kevinmoralesproperties.com
So where is the article, or am I just overlooking something? Or is it temporarily gone?
Kevin Morales - http://www.kevinmoralesproperties.com
My bad, I gotcha. I guess I should pay more attn to detail. I was looking for an article.
Suman S. - http://www.xploringindia.com
Are Twitter backlinks considered as quality links?
Faith - http://ifyouhadfaith.com
Never thought of putting a backlink in the bio…if it works, I guess, but don’t you feel that looks a little spammy?
Ayush Gupta - http://www.trickstree.com
I guess its not working anymore.