Promote Your Static Twitter Pages

March 3rd, 2009 | Twitter Guides, Twitter Tips

If you want to get the maximum benefit out of the content that you create on Twitter and promote your profile to the entire world, it’s time to start promoting your static Twitter pages.

Not everyone is aware of this fact, but Twitter creates a static URL for every message that’s posted to the network. And with a little extra work it’s possible to improve the SEO potential of your Twitter account.

Now are this stage, you may be asking yourself why you would want to spend time promoting content that already exists on your main Twitter profile, and in the timelines of all your followers. Good question.

These pages can rank extremely well in the search engines (especially since the main Twitter domain has such a good reputation with the search engines), allowing hundreds and thousands of additional people to discover your Twitter posts. All you have to do is point a few links to these static pages and wait for the results.

The pages already exist, the content already exists, so it only takes a little extra effort to leverage the massive power of the search engines to extend your reach beyond Twitter. This will help to promote any links in your message and your Twitter profile to a much broader audience.

So with that in mind, let’s get started.

Step 1: Find Your Twitter Static Pages

The URLs for static pages on Twitter are hidden away in a rather obscure place (perhaps that’s why so few people use them). There are several ways to find this information, so we’ll use the quick and easy option.

Login to your Twitter account then click the profile link at the top right of the page. Scroll down the page looking for the orange RSS icon in the right hand column, below the matrix of picture showing some of the people that you follow.

Click the link which should say “RSS feed of USERNAME’s updates”. This should take you to the RSS feed page for your Twitter account showing the last 20 messages that you’ve posted. If you want to view more than the last 20 messages, click subscribe at the top of the RSS page and subscribe to your Twitter feed using a feed reader such as Google Reader.

Clicking on any of the links will take you to the static page for that message. Collecting the URL is then just a case of copying the address in the URL bar at the top of the browser.

For example, the RSS feed for the @powersystem Twitter timeline can be found here; http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/18032292.rss and at the time of writing, here is an example of a static page for one of our most recent posts; http://twitter.com/PowerSystem/statuses/1174519649

Step 2: Promote Your Twitter Static Pages

Once you’ve got the URLs of the static Twitter posts that you want to promote, you can apply all the traditional and social media techniques.

Include the links on your social media profiles, squidoo pages, hubpages, your website, blog, article bio boxes, audio/video sharing networks, forum sigs, social bookmarking etc

The more relevant links that point to each static page, the better they will rank in the search engines for the keywords contained in the message and the anchor text used in the promotional links.

However, due to the balance between effort and reward, it’s best to limit your promotions to your best Tweets which contain keywords likely to attract search engine traffic.

Get creative and before long you could have several additional pages ranking well in the search engines helping to pull you towards social media success.

Use the comments feature below to post your best static link. It will help your page to rank better in the search engines and provide everyone else with an example of the type of posts worth promoting.

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41 comments ↓

#1 Jamie on 03.03.09 at 1:47 PM

http://twitter.com/creationsbyjae/statuses/1273156820

#2 Larry Johnson on 03.03.09 at 1:50 PM

That is neater than snuff! Thank You,
Larry

#3 Alan Hammond on 03.05.09 at 3:21 PM

Great post! I had no idea about the static pages, what a revelation.

Thanks Guys
Alan

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#4 James on 03.06.09 at 11:49 PM

Alan this seems to be one of the lil gems that not to many people know just yet. We like to uncover them for everyone to use and take advantage of.

Warm regards,

James Rivers

#5 Kashif on 03.07.09 at 10:03 PM

By promoting the static page aren’t we sending traffic back to twitter? How my website will get traffic from it?

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#7 Jeff Turner on 03.11.09 at 10:04 PM

Let me kill two birds with one stone.

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#8 Denver SEO on 03.11.09 at 10:16 PM

Awesome article, I will really use this! Thanks.

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#9 Chris Boudy on 03.11.09 at 10:40 PM

Hi James,

Maybe I’m a little slow but what’s the different between this and using your twitter URL? For example: http://www.twitter.com/chrisboudy

#10 Stuart on 03.13.09 at 12:13 AM

Great post Jeff. Your Twitter background is really inventive, especially the hidden message which only appears on static pages.

Kashif - Yes, initially, you will be promoting the Twitter website, but it will help your profile to attract more views through natural search engine traffic. As you attract more Twitter followers, you will occasionally be able to promote some of your own links provided they offer value to your followers.

Chris - If you promote individual static Twitter pages, you will be able to target different keywords for each page using the anchor text in the links that you point to each static page. In turn, each of the static pages point to your main Twitter profile which will help to boost it in the search engine rankings.

Warm regards,

Stuart Laing
Twitter Power Team

#11 Rahul Jadhav on 03.22.09 at 1:17 PM

Hey if you want the link of the static page, just click on the time given just below the tweet

For example:

Tweet:”Your tweet goes here”
less than 5 seconds ago from web

Just click on “less than 5 seconds ago” to get the link of the static page

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#12 Oriana Green on 03.22.09 at 5:21 PM

Great idea, thanks!
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#15 Stefan on 03.23.09 at 11:33 AM

Stuart: Great idea, will tweet it right away…

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#17 Herb Firestone on 03.23.09 at 6:04 PM

If this keeps up there won’t be time left for tweets cause we’ll all be learning and following your tips. This one is almost too good! Thanks.

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#18 James on 03.23.09 at 7:45 PM

Thanks for the great feedback Herb. We try to provide the best Tips and Strategies for our readers. We spend the time testing and tweaking these strategies so you don’t need to. This allows you to save time and just implement them.

I would like to send a special thank you everyone that has taken the time to post your static links and put this tip into practice. If you enjoyed this post you will really enjoy our article on how to Power Up Your Twitter Searches.

Warm regards,

James Rivers
Twitter Power Team

#19 Add 1000 site links on 03.24.09 at 8:41 AM

More links are always a good thing. Thanks for the tip!

#20 RaiulBaztepo on 03.31.09 at 2:53 PM

Hello!
Very Interesting post! Thank you for such interesting resource!
PS: Sorry for my bad english, I’v just started to learn this language
See you!
Your, Raiul Baztepo

#21 Dean Kendall on 03.31.09 at 10:40 PM

Very cool. Thank you for sharing this - will start applying this right away!

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#22 Chad Van Norman on 04.03.09 at 5:28 PM

You can also click on the time showing how long ago the tweet was made, after the post. And Be Taken to the status page.

Chad

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#25 Sam Freedoms Internet Marketing Controversy Blog on 04.06.09 at 10:37 AM

Hi James,

Stuff like this seems oh-so-clever, but it’s the kind of stuff that comes from linear thinking and then, unfortunately, gets repeated by the unwashed masses. Although, even though it’s a big disaster looming on the horizon, it still got you some free traffic to your blog, didn’t it.

While, in theory, it makes sense, there’s 2 problems with promoting your Twitter statuses:

1. Over time, you unwittingly turn your blog into a link farm;
2. While it might only take a few minutes to create the ideal Twitter status backlink, people (newbies, especially) could be spending their time in a lot better ways.

But, when people have no idea how to get REAL traffic to their blogs, stuff like this will seem like ice cream.

Nice looking blog, though.
Sam Freedom

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