Christopher Shennan's Blog

Over the few weeks I have taken to reading (yes, honestly I have, and it appears there is a decent amount of worthwhile reading material out there on the web) a few blog entries from SEOmoz, partly because I started to follow SEOmoz on twitter and have been enticed by twitter teasers.

One of the points of thought on a recent blog entry about the unexpected effects of a tweet on search engine rankings suggested that auto-tweeting using tools like auto-tweet plugins for WordPress or online services such as Twitterfeed were not as effective as promoting the content.

This peaked my attention, especially since I have been using Twitterfeed for several months to feed my blog to twitter and Facebook and I have, on occasion, noticed decent search engine rankings and quick indexing in Google for some of my topics (mainly my Server Backup using Dropbox (A 5 Minute Setup) article).

Thus far I have not been able to determine if there is any more weight given to an tweet that is posted manually rather than a tweet which is posted by an automated service like Twitterfeed but I have come across several recommendation why auto-tweeting services are bad and should not be used.
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Having  just set up WordPress on here this morning one additional thing I wanted to do which was to put a redirect in place to redirect my sub domain on wordpress.org (which is http://chrisshennan.wordpress.com) to point to my own domain name.

My main reason for doing this was that when I comment on some of my friends blogs (mainly those on blogspot) I have posted the comment using my WordPress profile which only allows me to enter my wordpress username which then links to username.wordpress.com.  As a result I would have to be adding my new blogs entries to 2 blogs which would be a waste of time and bad in terms or SEO (duplicated content resulting in a lower search engine listings).

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