If that day ever comes, it MAY trigger a little ‘interest’ of testing out the tweets, but I won’t force myself into it. Good idea about the RT though; I myself don’t retweet much for the already famous RTs; I do think the ‘less-appreciate’ ones with good content, deserve some pat at the back. Just like Google search, sometimes the gems are on pg 10 of SERP. ^^

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When I wrote this post, the keywords were in fact a no brainer. But they fit in so naturally with the post, that I didn’t have to put too much thought into them.

I think it’s good if Google did include things like the number of retweets as a ranking factor. Retweets, though they don’t convey authority as much as backlinks do, still serve as a validation of quality.

With Twitter, while what you say is searchable, it’s still primarily a conversation tool that can be used in a myriad of ways. While businesses and marketers using Twitter purely as a business tool may think more about keywords, the general user won’t bother (or care).

Just an aside – I have to disagree with both your good self and Mr Brogan about Facebook. It’s another tool in your online arsenal – I don’t think grabbing a relevant URL is as much vanity as common sense. The point Chris made would have been more effective had he just left his URL as a generic number, instead of going for dotchrisbrogan.
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In the end, content that is relevant and useful will win on Google. Call it naive, but I think that, because they have a business to run, they are financially incented to deliver the best content to it’s users.

John
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In truth, keywords did cross my mind when writing the post title, but they were not my primary concern. My primary concern was, “How can I give folks the quickest idea of what this post is about so that they can decide whether to read it or not?”

Also, because I thought it would be useful to get people’s thoughts on the topic, I wrote the title in the form of a question.

John
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The result, BTW, is that many of my articles / posts indeed land in the top 3 on Google (e.g. “founders syndrome”) but that’s not because we aimed at that. It’s because (wait for it) good content rocks! (Duh…)

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