Twitter is good for a lot of things, including sharing information and links, listening to the thoughts and announcement of people you respect, and as an organic, user-driven source of breaking news. But one of the best things that happens on Twitter are the discussions and conversations which spontaneously take place within a community.
Below is one that happened this morning amongst a few UK SEOs on Twitter, mainly Sarah Goodwin, Rishi Lakhani, Pete Wailes and myself. It captures, I think, a lot of issues that SEOs are thinking about Google today, particularly in the light of the continuing problems with UK search results (#ukserps) which have been serving badly geo-targeted search results to Googlers in the UK and other non-US English speaking locations since April this year. It all started with Sarah tweeting the following, talking about how after reading Dave Naylor’s latest post on UK SERPs, it seems like Google is doing this deliberately to force people to use the “Pages from the UK” radio button:
That single word “thoughts?” led to a pretty interesting discussion of what Google is up to and whether they could ever be knocked off the top spot in Search. I could try summarising the conversation into a ‘traditional’ blog post but not only would that take ages, I also kind of like the idea of just showing the tweets themselves. So with the help of a great tool called TweetPaste, which allows you to embed tweets on a webpage, I’ve reproduced the whole conversation below. I think the discussion speaks for itself. Feel free to continue the conversation in the comments below!
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Wow… congratulations on reading this far! Well hopefully that has fired up some thoughts in your brain - so please do leave them in the comments below (your thoughts that is, not your brain).
A final Twitter tip to leave you with: if as a business or a brand you’ve decided to get involved with twitter, don’t simply use it to broadcast messages and links, ignoring the discussion and conversation side of it. In my opinion that’s the most important part.
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Peter Handley
28.10.09
That final tip there is right on the money, it’s important to have the conversations in Twitter.
Just making announcements isn’t going to cut it, you need to engage with people or other businesses.
I watched part of this conversation unfold just before a meetin this morning, and think it was a good conversation to have.
Certainly the radio button seems to be returning the most relevant results at the moment. But I don’t think this is to googles advantage. I do know people outside the search world who have started to notice odd results! But will they change search engine? Not sure…
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Hannah_Bo_Banna
28.10.09
Jaamit you are a star! Saw a bit of this conversation this morning, but couldn’t get involved as one of my clients called - how very dare they! :)
I have to say, I’m with Sarah on this, Google are no.1, for now - but we’ve seen challenger brands defeat the big guys before, and I think if they don’t sort it, and sharpish they may lose some market share. In the UK right now, I think that Google are relying on goodwill. But goodwill only goes so far, right?
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Sarah @ Internet Marketing Liverpool
02.11.09
I’ve only just started reading about the recent problems with UK SERPS - interesting. I agree with Sarah though - Google won’t last forever.
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27.10.09
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27.10.09
@moxypark awesome, look forward to hearing bout it. btw just went crazy with tweetpaste on http://tr.im/Dg7X ;)
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27.10.09
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27.10.09
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27.10.09
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27.10.09
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11.11.09
@moxypark is there something wrong with tweetpaste? just noticed this post is empty! (might be a prob our end) http://tr.im/Dg7X
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