Renewed Focus on SEO Generated 10 Times More Visitors for Twitter


Twitter says that working to create some of its hashtag pages gracious to search engines has generated a huge increase in search-connected visits


Think social media has killed search as a traffic driver? Think again, given that social media giant tweet shared today that SEO has helped it generate a 10-times increase in logged-out guests to its web site.

The news came through the Twitter Analyst Day result today. Twitter’s director of result organization Trevor O’Brien said the business made a change earlier this year to ensure that search engines like Google & Bing could improved access 50,000 accepted hashtag pages — page where Twitter has compile tweets and information relating to a thorough hashtag.

For example, if you were interested in the #Alex FromTarget hashtag that go viral last week, you power search for that on Google. If so, Twitter’s hashtag regarding it ranks in the apex results:

Twitter says making this change increased the number of logged-out users coming to its site by 10-fold, in fact raising the number from 7.5 million per month to the current 75 million per month.

For logged-out users, the main call-to-deed on these pages is to promote them to sign-up for Twitter. though, Twitter is explore other ideas on how to make funds off these pages.

Ironically, Twitter once had huge amount of Google traffic pending its way throughout a deal it has struck with the search giant. That deal fell distant in 2011. For more background on that, in daylight of today’s news, see our companion account on promotion Land:

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