Get your twitter links while you can
Warning: copy() [function.copy]: Filename cannot be empty in /home/jlhdes/public_html/wp-content/plugins/mytube/mytube.php on line 220
Earlier today Dave Naylor outed the little known twitter fact that you can get a non-nofollowed link by adding a web address in your “One Line Bio” of your profile.
Like:
For a resulting profile page like this:
It’s not going to last long as internet officer on-the-spot Matt Cutts has spotted it and taken action to stop the flow of link juice to people:
Since Matt is so interested in helping out twitter he may want to mention that some of their “capacity” issues may be due to Google crawling the non-canonical versions of URLs that exist throughout the site.
Notice the same page is indexed twice in Google. One as twitter/johnweb and as twitter/JohnWeb, same content, same spelling, just different cases used.
I guess we’ll see who twitter is more interested in pleasing, it’s users by reducing the server load with a simple url canonicalization fix or Google with their cure-all rel=”nofollow”, by which is fixed first.
On FriendFeed, this post was liked by 0 people and commented on 0 times hide
