I’ve put up a number of post with various reasons I love using Twitter but one that I’ve just noticed is for quality back links.

Recently, I posted a quick tweet to Ray Edwards. He’s usually Twittering like a mad man but I hadn’t see any Tweets from him in a while, so I send a quick Tweet to see how he was.

Which he responded to, “Nice man that he is”.

But, to make a long story short, I “Googled” myself (not to boost my ego..mind) just to see what was coming up under my name and I found Rays Twitter page coming back in the search results with my personal “Tweet” I’d sent him.

I then visited Rays Twitter page to find he’s got a page rank of 4.

Maybe its a “Doh” moment on my behalf and others have thought of this before but isn’t this another great reason to send Tweets to others as well as Tweet about yourself personally.

By sending and joining with others you gain great backlinks form other people Twitter pages to your own, and then possibly boost your own Twitter pages page rank!

The added benefit of increasing your Twitter page is that now any Tweets you send with a working link (to your blog or site) help gain some link love back to your other sites (and help Google to find them in the first place) and then possibly help to increase their page rank?

So, should we all send Ray Edwards a personal “Tweet”?

No, ( I don’t think he’d be too happy) but by doing such a small thing as Twittering every day you’re helping to increase your exposure on the internet thus making it more easy for more people to find you online.

And its so easy….so whats stopping you??

I know after reading a blog title like this, a lot of you (especially the SEO heads out there) will argue that page rank is still relevant nowadays and we all should be looking for it.

But, after the last few days with my own site I don’t know?

If you visit out home page here at www.ItWasSoEasy.com you’ll see that we’ve dropped down in page rank, from a rank of 4 down to a 2 and now….?

And another site of mine www.EscapeFromFat.com that I’ve changed from a site to a blog has gone in one week from a page rank of 1 to a page rank of 4….?

Maybe someone out there can work that one out for me….but I’ve still scratching my head.

So, I’m left wondering does page rank really matter anymore?..or have I slipped through the page rank cracks??

I think I won’t be paying as much attention to page rank as I used to…just give me the free traffic instead!!!!