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Testing Android

January 9, 2017 By Chris Smith Leave a Comment

I recently purchased a Nexus 5x for testing out Google Fi’s service. It came in today, so I chronicled the setup on Twitter.

2 minutes after pulling the Nexus 5x out of the box, and already, issues. The sim card had to be trimmed to fit in the tray.

— Christopher Smith (@chrisfromthelc) January 9, 2017

2 minutes after pulling the Nexus 5x out of the box, and already, issues. The sim card had to be trimmed to fit in the tray.

— Christopher Smith (@chrisfromthelc) January 9, 2017

Now I know how all those console gamers feel, waiting on updates before they can play anything.

— Christopher Smith (@chrisfromthelc) January 9, 2017

Installing apps is mostly painless. The 5x camera is pretty great, and it's bottom of the line in the Google Fi selection.

— Christopher Smith (@chrisfromthelc) January 9, 2017

While the setup had a few bumps and took longer than anticipated, I’m somewhat impressed by the phone itself. I’m still poking my way around Android, but I don’t have any major complaints so far.

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: android, nexus 5x, twitter

Twitter As An Authoritative Backlink

September 12, 2010 By Chris Smith Leave a Comment

A while back, I did an experiment trying to prove that while Twitter links are marked as nofollow, that they actually ARE followed.

I had a registered, but never-used domain. Google searches for the domain name yielded zero results. I published a simple, static HTML page (no possibility of trackbacks/pinging/RSS/etc.), and tweeted a link from a public Twitter account (the published link was nofollowed). Within 16 hours, the page was picked up and indexed.

This alone tells us multiple things:

  1. Links on Twitter accounts can be followed, regardless of the link state. I’m sure that some spammy accounts are “sandboxed” and not followed, but for the sake of discussion, we’re referring to good accounts.
  2. The next logical step here is to push for a self-hosted short URL service. Even though most services (like bit.ly) do 301-redirects, it’s better for it to redirect from your own domain.
  3. Links from good Twitter accounts are a probable ranking metric.

My personal Twitter account currently has a SEOMoz Page Authority of 58. That’s pretty respectable. So, it’s not crazy to assume some of that will get passed (Google did crawl the link, after all). If nothing else, it’s a great way to get a site indexed quickly!

Filed Under: Backlinking, SEO, Social Media Tagged With: backlinks, indexing, page authority, seomoz, twitter

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