On April 29, I reported that just using Twitter as a mechanism to increase your blogs rankings in the Search Engines wasn’t going to work, simply because the Twitter links are marked “No Follow”.

So, to continue my SEO experiment, I left my blog running and turned on pinging services. The results are far more interesting.
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Here I am at about 2 weeks into my “great Twitter SEO experiment”. My summary so far is that whilst Twitter does provide extra Blog readers, the SEO effects of increasing link ranking in the Search Engines does not happen.

To recap, I want to test the effect of using Twitter to get my blog “to the top” in Google. I chose to use a new site (http://mygiveawayevent.com/blog) as my testing ground, turned off all pinging from the site and just used Twitterfeed to get my message out.
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Whilst it sounds like a cool song title, it isn’t. Are you risking a “google slap” for practicing bad social techniques?

Well, it must be Digg week! Imagine that. I logged in this morning and found this great Forum article on Social Authority Central by Chris Lang detailing an experiment he has been conducting with Digg. Full details of that article can be found here.

However, let me summarise what I can here.
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A few months ago, I posted about Web 2.0 and social networking. Yesterday, I received an email about Digg and how to use it. I figured, the best way to explain it, is to show it, so I started up Camtasia and recorded a presentation on how to use Digg to promote your sites.

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