Twitter based competition

[dmccarthy]

I have a client who  wants to run a twitter based competition.

The idea is as follows.

tweet the url of your favorite product from clients website, with #hashtag .

so potentially there could be 100+ tweets  referencing  three or four unique urls on the clients  website.

What I am interested in is there any SEO benefit to be gained from this.

[CoreyNorthcutt]

Well "social indicators", as they've been dubbed, are a ranking factor in both Google and Bing, although just one factor out of 200+.  Legitimate accounts tweeting links to a site would definitely be a positive signal.  It would also hopefully provide you with some legitimate inbound marketing benefits by giving you access to new audiences.