Twitter: A Powerful SEO Tool?

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One of my favorite blogs, Marketing Pilgrim, wrote up a nice piece today about Internet marketers using Twitter. I’m assuming you know about Twitter by now. The interesting thing about the article is that it lists 75+ Internet marketers who use Twitter. Now, I know there are more than 75 Internet marketers in the world. But I also know that the best Internet marketers don’t jump on a bandwagon unless there is some value in it. I was surprised to see some of the biggest names in SEO and Internet marketing on the list. Here are just a few:

Andy Beal
Brian Chappell
Andy Beard
Bill Slawski
Duncan Riley
Graywolf
Greg Boser
Jason Calacanis
Jennifer Laycock
Jill Whalen
Jeremiah Owyang
Lee Odden
Lisa Barone
Problogger
Rand Fishkin
Rene Lemerle
Rusty Brick
Robert Scoble
SERoundtable
Sugarrae
TheNanny612
Vanessa Fox
And that’s not even the whole list. There are many more!

Twitter has a PageRank of 8. That’s at least as high as many social bookmarking sites that have been around a lot longer. Del.icio.us is at a PR 8. Digg has a PR 8. StumbleUpon has a PR 8.

With a PR comparable to the most trafficked social bookmarking sites online, you know there has to be some serious link juice in using Twitter. I know that’s not why these savvy Internet marketers are using it. The social benefits are just as powerful as the SEO benefits, but that does give you something to think about, doesn’t it?

Nick Stamoulis