When I read the The 12 Skills That Have Served Me Best in My SEO Career I immediately thought, “good stuff, must twitter”.
Wrong, wrong wrong.
Posting on my blog helps by:
- Building my blog
- Giving SEOmoz a link that is better than the link from twitter
- Reaching people who do not Twitter
- Avoiding overlap as other people will tweet
- Comments become part of this blog and not twitter
If you want to read my words you are going to have to read them here. If I twitter it, all I get is a bunch of retweets by people who are too ADD to read the article and to help Twitter build its business.
Which makes me think of another headline for this article, “Why I wont Tweet Rand Fishkin”. I will use that on the tweet to announce the post. It has lots of elements of a great headline, which I may deconstruct in a later post.
I recommend the article to anyone who needs a blueprint to being a great seo.
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Stop sucking me in with Tweets that look like I’m going to read an entertaining slagging when I get the opposite.
Agreed. Twitter has become another blackhole in much the same way as Wikipedia has. It offers no link love, comments can’t last, heck even the tweets themselves are hard to find after a short time.
Not to mention I’m not a fan of short URL’s as you have no idea where they lead. Guess that’s why spammers love them.
Yep.
Maybe this is why you’re also very unlikely to see Rand tweeting (pretty much) anything…
Loving the new site, nice work!
OMG – so tweeting this!
Good point. Now I need to get back to my blog which hasn’t been updated in months due to my tweeting habits…now where did I leave it?
Yeah, while Twitter has sent me some decent traffic, I’ve found that it seems to have cut down on the number of links and comments a post will get.
But, rather than complain I realize that it all starts at home.
I need to make a more concerted effort to blog about quality information (as you appear to have done here Lyndon) rather than simply tweeting about it.
Marty, that is about the funniest thing I have read all month!
You get what you put in.
Yes, blogging takes effort, but a retweetathon is series of single clicks without engagement.
Appreciate your short but sweet lesson, sound advice for anyone creating content, not just SEOs…
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