How to get indexed quickly by Google using Twitter
January 5th, 2008On busy weeks, at best, I usually post once or twice on this blog so Google doesn’t index me very often. Today, however, I figured a way to get indexed within minutes: use Twitter.
Google indexes the hell out of Twitter - new posts appear almost instantaneously in Google’s indexes. Most often, when you create links in your Twitter posts, it’s best to use TinyURL to make them shorter. Google’s crawler follows these redirects so anytime you post a new blog entry and create a link to it in Twitter, Google will pick it up within minutes.
This happened this morning to my previous post about Facebook-hachibu. A Google search for the term revealed that it had been picked up within minutes. So, maybe Twitter is the new sitemap ping.
January 6th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
thanks for the tip! i’m going to pull in my tweets on my blog, so perhaps google will see these new additions as well, although I doubt it
January 13th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
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