Do Search Engines Want Twitter in Search Results?
According to Search Engine Land, Twitter is opening up its search results and preventing bots from crawling the results for users, videos and images. From an SEO perspective, the domain authority Twitter has should be enough to rank well regarding certain instances- like garnering large amounts of rankings from hashtags during big events. But, search engines may not want to index Twitter’s search results. Google’s stance has been to not index search result pages within its own search results, and according to webmaster guidelines, webmasters should not do what Twitter is doing. (Search Engine Land)
