Twitter Accounts are beating my domains, is it fair?

[alien51]

I have noticed that Twitter profile versions of my domains are outranking my domains in Google.

Just an example, suppose i own the domain "orangejuice dot com". Somebody regged "orangejuice" on Twitter, and then ranks on top of Google Search with "twitter.com/orangejuice"-- eventhough the Twitter account is running worthless tweets and my domain contains solid content.

Don't you think this is an unfair anomaly in the indexing algorithm?

I even own a common name domain, just an example "robertsmith dot com" that contains serious blog entries and articles. And yet, it gets outranked by a RobertSmith profile on Twitter that contains nothing but tweets about getting drunk the other night, and taking his car to the repair shop. WTF?

 

[slfmarketing]

It isn't fair, but it appears more relevance is being given to twitter, and other social sites, but that can change. As "nicedomains" said it's best to plan ahead and claim the twitter accounts, facebook etc if you're going to be sticking with the name long-term.

 

[alien51]

I just want to update this thread to report that Google appears to have changed its ranking algo when it comes to Twitter Account names.

My competitor who snatched the Twitter name version of my .COM domain, is now kicked down the Google search order by an amazing 12 notches. He is no longer on P1. Previously, his twitter account ranked on top. I checked his twitter and his account is still actively tweeting with about 3 dozen followers, and yet he still get booted down from search.

Perhaps it appears that unless your Twitter is really trending very strongly, it is now more difficult to rank on top of Google?

My .COM domain is now back on top as No.1, eventhough i have never made any SEO changes or whatsoever.

 

[jcourtenay]

Interesting, it would seem that Google are constantly updating their search algorithms to keep results relevant.

 

[premierdomains]

apparently, google are going to stop indexting twitter as they find the hash tags annoying

 

[enlytend]

Google stopped pushing Twitter (and FB) a couple of months ago when they started heavily favoring G+ pages. There was a big uproar about it, especially from Twitter (although I believe it was their decision to let their agreement with Google expire a few months earlier.)

You may want to defensively get on G+.