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.