Ahhh, Twitter. For better or worse, the service has gained major exposure from Ellen, Oprah, P. Diddy, and its most popular user, Ashton Kutcher. Additionally, in a desperate attempt to appear young and relevant, news organizations such as Fox, CNN and MSNBC have jumped on the bandwagon as well, shoving their twitter names down our throats and creating a television format based entirely around reading tweets from their followers. Of course, with this increase in exposure, the marketing folks come pouring out the woodwork: from self-promoting freelancers to corporate twitter accounts, it seems I can’t send out a single tweet without some spambot kicking in and auto-friending me. But how effective is twitter as a marketing tool?
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SEO Isn’t That Important
Jun 9
Yesterday I got in a bit of a twitter debate regarding SEO and flash-based sites in particular.
While I will agree that flash-based websites suffer from an SEO standpoint (workarounds aside), I don’t always think that matters. And this is where the deluge of “WTF” started- largely from people that weren’t even following me.
I know, I should have expected it. Saying SEO doesn’t matter on the web today (let alone on Twitter, where the SEO folks tend to congregate) is social media suicide. But it’s true. Sometimes.
