Tech Ravings

In a post on Come Adventuring I made an announcement that I was web casting again. I also Twittered this information. Since I used UrlBrief I was also able to see click thru. As a whim I checked them an hour later and was suprised to see that traffic had been generated. Especially since Googlebot had come through twice. Because I had used the same link in both places and the surprising traffic which one drew the traffic?

So started the experiment.

Using the traditional blogging methods: make a post; have it ping news aggregates, I created a link for than. I let it run for an hour to see if anything click the UrlBrief link and thus being recorded. The only two hits were from my Wordpress blog, none others.

After an hour and to the minute I made a Tweet with a fresh link for Come Adventuring. Absolutely no inclusion in any post. Even though I’m making this post twenty minutes early I have recorded 5 click thru’s to the post. One being googlebot.

After spending years in SEO/SEM I have become familiar with the traditional methods of code cleanliness, link campaigns, directory inclusions, ads, etc. I have never seen a faster generation of traffic than making a tweet on Twitter. This is truly amazing as Google must be sitting on Twitter and scraping.

In my excitement about setting up streaming as posted on Come Adventuring I looked to UrlBrief to shorten the url to the radio broadcast. I also made a tweet about how excited I was with the urlbrief link. Not thinking anything of it I just went about normal business.

Now keep in mind that UrlBrief also records for you to see where clicks have come from which make it very cool. So just as a grins and giggles idea I went back an hour later. Just to see. I about dropped out of my chair to see that google bot had already visited the links via the urlbrief url, and twice.

Not there are two ways that google bot could have done that: one is through the natural indexing of Come Adventuring, or; through Twitter. I’m guessing Twitter because Come Adventuring is way too new. Although it has a PR of 1, seriously it just doesn’t happen like that. Even by coincidence.

So I have another test running just in case. The Come Adventuring link above is url brief encoded. I’m going to let it run for an hour on this blog which Google has ranked spanked. I’ll post the details.

 Then I’m going to make a tweet about it. Then post after an hour.

I’ve spent years doing SEO/SEM and have never seen a quicker response from a SE. I can certainly attribute it to Twitter because, frankly, I don’t market this blog.