Real-time results trump organic rankings.
If you are one of the lucky ones who has their tweets showing up in Google’s new real time results, then kudos to you. If your not, welcome to the majority. Perhaps you’re not quite sure what I’m talking about. Here is a picture of the new “real-time search results”
Branding vs. Personal Name has Big Benefits w/ this new feature.
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As always, there is no concrete information on which accounts will be featured, or guidelines to qualify as one who will be featured. So far, this author can only find MattCutts and SEOmoz’s tweets featured. Google has confirmed using Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed, Jaiku, Identi.ca and Twitter.
Once the roll out is complete we will have a better understanding of which accounts are featured and how it really works between the search engine and social media sites. It will be very interesting to see how the SEO community reacts to this. What are your takes on how this will change organic traffic and conversion rates?
If only I could figure out how the ranking for this worked. I haven’t yet set up and connected my twitter to all of my networks but when I do it would be great if my tweets about my new blog or links could show up in relevant searches. By the way thanks for your blog post on how to use twitter for business,it gave me some great tips.Truth be told I have it bookmarked for easy access.