30 Links in 30 Days Linkbuilding Campaign - Day 5 - Identi.ca

[http://identi.ca/seochiangmai](SEO Chiangmai uses Identi.ca) for microblogging, in addition to Twitter. Why? The disadvantage is traffic. Based on several client accounts managed at SEO Chiangmai we estimate Twitter delivers approximately an order of magnitude (10x) of follows. However, the quality of accounts in terms of engagement can be much higher and for some kinds of organizations and products, Identi.ca is even more relevant and target markets more accessible on this brilliant Open Source microblogging platform.

Why Identi.ca is better than Twitter - PageRank

Identi.ca has a variety of functionality that performs better than Twitter. For SEO it's about PageRank and in many cases Identi.ca accounts outperform Twitter accounts in terms of accruing PageRank, even with more followers on Twitter.

Identi.ca has follow links

This is a no-brainer. Identi.ca has follow links which means the PageRank (in several cases our clients have a PageRank 4 or 5 on their Identi.ca profiles) flows to the links and the profile URL.

Identi.ca does not automatically shorten URLs

Ah, even better. Identi.ca does not automatically shorten URLs which enables longer URLs with additional keyword support, providing even better performance to the linked pages.

Multi-micro-blogging

It is fairly straightforward to use multi-micro-blogging and status update tools to post to multiple micro-blogging and social media sites. The best we have come across is HelloTXT.com, which provides support for multiple networks (and multiple accounts) as well as custom hashtags to update any combination of sites simultaneously. At times it is still necessary to visit the individual micro-blogging sites in order to manage the conversations.

Related posts:

1. 30 Links in 30 Days Linkbuilding Campaign - Day 4 - Twitter
2. 30 Links in 30 Days Linkbuilding Campaign - Day 12 - The Facebook Page
3. Social Media Messaging Synchronization