Don’t worry, you haven’t missed any updates, the weekend came and went and before I realised what was happening. Does anyone ever have that feeling? 
Well the past couple of days, I have been continuing to add bookmarks to my profile, and a quick check of ranking has highlighted a fairly important issue with Twitter, one that is both concerning and confusing.
I think most people have heard of ‘canonical’ issues, whereby two pages exist with different URL’s but the same content. Well it appears that Twitter accounts suffer the same problem.
I now have two accounts that have been indexed in Google:
- http://twitter.com/payasyougoseo
- http://twitter.com/PayAsYouGoSEO
Now for the uninitiated of you, this may not appear as an issue, but in the eyes of the search engine, both of these URL’s are different and could contain different information.
One of the biggest challenges to overcome with this canonicalisation is a familiar issue with many website owners, the fact that any links that are generated to the site can be split between two separate pages.
The lowercase account currently has 47 backlinks, whereas my preferred account, the uppercase version, has 145.
With a website, this is easily resolved with a rewrite in the htaccess file, with Twitter accounts…I will need to figure out a way.
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