Comments on: What Are The Intentions Of Your Visitors?

By: Nobi

Nobi — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:34:23 +0000

I agree with you. Awards or Backlinks that you create yourself must be worthless. Well, may be one day I may have an idea what to do with my twitter followers. They grow and I let them grow. Who knows for what they are good in future.

By: roman

roman — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:51:13 +0000

@Nobi
Hello Nobi,

I do not know anything about twitter and its effectiveness for backlinks. But my gut reaction is that it cannot be great for backlinks.

The reason I think this is that if you can create your own backlinks then the backlinks must be worthless. It makes sense that Google must ignore all backlinks that can be created by anybody. Otherwise spammers and webmasters would be creating their own backlinks to improve their search engine ranking. To avoid this from happening Google must ignore backlinks that can be created by anybody.

My rule of thumb – if you can create your own backlink then it is worthless. This would apply for twitter, leaving a link in the comments, adding yourself to directories etc.

Backlinks are the same as awards. Awards that you get from other people or institutions are worth infinitely more then ones that you give yourself.

By: Nobi

Nobi — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:15:04 +0000

I never had much success on twitter myself. Just meaningless talk. I decided not to waste my time there. I just have a twitter account to promote my site there. I mean, I simply exist on twitter and sometimes I send a tweet mentioning a page of my site. And I believe that allmighty Google knows that I do exist on twitter and might give me credit for my backlinks. I have reason to believe that backlinks on twitter do count. So when I sent a tweet containing a link to my site http://www.learn-german-for-free.com, this might count. That’s all!

By: roman

roman — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:44:40 +0000

@Mike CJ
Hello Mike.

For some reason when I was writing this post a vision of your head appeared and hovered before me. It was there for a second and then disappeared. Not knowing what to think of it I ignored it and continued writing.

Now I know – you felt a disturbance in the Force. Someone was attacking social traffic.

It is true – I do not value social traffic as much as search engine traffic. And you are right, you can get a few interested people out of the hoards of uninterested. But time is limited and energies need to be focused. If you have only one hour a day for website promotion then I suggest you use it getting search engine traffic. For example, writing a guest post and receiving a quality backlink is worth more then spending that hour twitter bombing your website.

By: Mike CJ

Mike CJ — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:02:00 +0000

Totally agree with the last sentence Roman – of course we’d all prefer the focused visitors. But I think you do your readers a disservice by telling them to ignore social traffic.

Here’s an example: If I were to Retweet this post now (I have about 9000 followers on Twitter, you would immediately get about 40 visitors (I measure this all the time). It’s probable, but not certain, that a few of my followers would in turn retweet me. Let’s take an educated guess that a couple do and generate another 10 visitors for you.

Now you are correct in assuming the vast majority of those will flit in, read the post, yawn, and never come back again. But out of those fifty, there just might be one who thinks “I love this site, I love this guy, he really speaks to me.” And another who says “I want to get into blogging – I’m going to buy that product right now.”