Comments on: Would Twitter be better for SEO without URL shorteners? http://www.webdesign-bureau-of-mauritius.com/would-twitter-be-better-for-seo-without-url-shorteners/ Web design Mauritius: the hub for web design, marketing and code Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:27:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Web Design Mauritius http://www.webdesign-bureau-of-mauritius.com/would-twitter-be-better-for-seo-without-url-shorteners/#comment-821 Web Design Mauritius Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:45:24 +0000 http://www.webdesign-bureau-of-mauritius.com/?p=1519#comment-821 <p>The discussion has currently shifted <a title="Facebook version: Would Twitter be better for SEO without URL shorteners?" href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=363867402460" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">to the Facebook version of this post</a>.</p> <p>Below is my comment on why I think Twitter would have no interest of implementing this solution:</p> <p>It would go against the idea of Twitter for many reasons</p> <ol> <li>Twitter is a social media whose objectives are to link people and make them share things, we professionals have found a marketing side to the tool but Twitter had not been made for such a use. Doing this would mean that Twitter would be leaving the Social Media sphere and get into the Marketing tool niche.</li> <li>If they do this, there will be a horde of marketeers who will be invading the platform and just spend their time Tweeting keyword stuffed links to their sites or their clients' sites. Thus, the original information and link sharing aspect will be biased.</li> <li>On the assumption of the previous thought becoming real, Google (or any other search engine) will no longer see Twitter as a social media but a spammy link farm that it'll just drop out of its index.</li> </ol> <p>These are some thoughts on why Twitter wouldn't be doing this.</p> The discussion has currently shifted to the Facebook version of this post.

Below is my comment on why I think Twitter would have no interest of implementing this solution:

It would go against the idea of Twitter for many reasons

  1. Twitter is a social media whose objectives are to link people and make them share things, we professionals have found a marketing side to the tool but Twitter had not been made for such a use. Doing this would mean that Twitter would be leaving the Social Media sphere and get into the Marketing tool niche.
  2. If they do this, there will be a horde of marketeers who will be invading the platform and just spend their time Tweeting keyword stuffed links to their sites or their clients’ sites. Thus, the original information and link sharing aspect will be biased.
  3. On the assumption of the previous thought becoming real, Google (or any other search engine) will no longer see Twitter as a social media but a spammy link farm that it’ll just drop out of its index.

These are some thoughts on why Twitter wouldn’t be doing this.

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