New Twitter Tweet Button (Conveniently Without Nofollow Attribute)
UPDATE – The new Twitter Button is, at the moment, not accurate, it’s slow to update, and just not as good (as far as historical data is concerned) as Topsy, so I uninstalled the new Twitter button in favour of the Topsy RT button (which we reviewed ages ago).
I added the new Tweet Button immediately (you will see it on this and other posts).
The new official easy to install Twitter button is out for your site - Search Engine People have a pretty solid tutorial on how to install it. I was immediately struck by the fact that their new Twitter button conveniently shipped WITHOUT the nofollow attribute, meaning they just bagged themselves about a billion* new search engine friendly links and more Pagerank than Google. Probably.
Kind of ironic, I thought, seeing as Twitter is so stingy with PR.
* Guestimate
Kudos to ‘D’ at Bermuda Scooter Hire for the tip.
Written by Shaun Anderson
http://twitter.com/share is the URL that piece of code links to though, but rubbish perhaps someone should give twitter an SEO lesson?
They can do whatever they want at any time with that page and all that link juice – I think they know what they are doing
It doesn’t validate either.
Funny isn’t it lol
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How do links like this help their PageRank:
It’s not those links, it’s the link on the button you put on your website, is a straight link from the page, to Twitter’s domain. In the future, the target page could be modified to spread PR to the Twitter domain, although at the moment, there does seem to be a direct link on the share page anyway….
Did I miss something?
Hmmm… Shaun and what value would those links have for twitter? I mean to say what would they be trying to rank in Search Engines for… Twitter?
IMO, just the usual stupid mistakes you see from the Twitter Dev team. I doubt after reading what Dave Naylor wrote on their Robots.txt use that these guys give SEs any thought at all.
Terry, straight search engine friendly links to their site will pass Pagerank, that’s for sure. How Twitter modifies that page, or what they do with it in future, is up to them.
Do you not think at some point in the future Twitter will use their domain authority for other things? These links will pass PR and domain authority – it’s not about ranking for particular keywords (though they give you a neat option to mix up the anchor text lol)
I just thought it was rich seeing as they nofollow EVERY external link, and when it comes to their links they leave off the nofollow.
[...] Twitter retweet code places a link to Twitter on every page you include it, and they didn’t add a nofollow to the link. It is quite possible Google will decide to ignore all these links in the future, especially as it [...]
That is kind of crappy. I’m constantly trying to build up PR for the website I design and it sure would be nice if I could use social networking sites like Twitter or Facebook to do it.
I think even if these were dofollow they wouldn’t help a huge amount though, and if they did it would only be from high profile profiles, a new account with 1 friend on facebook I highly doubt would pass much/any pagerank even if it was dofollow