Twitter Generated 10x More Visitors After Focusing on #SEO

Twitter Generated 10x More Visitors After Focusing on SEO

Social media killed SEO, right?

Wrong. During their Analyst Day event yesterday, Twitter revealed that focusing on search engine optimisation generated a huge increase in new visitors to its website.

Twitter’s director of product management Trevor O’Brien noted that a change made by the firm so that Google and Bing had an easier time accessing 50,000 popular hashtag pages increased the number of logged-out users coming to Twitter from 7.5 million per month to 75 million per month.

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