Top Five Tips for Getting Found on the Internet
As a website owner, one of your biggest goals is to appear on the first page of search engine results. For example, a business that sells insurance in the New York area hopes that when a surfer enters the words “insurance NY” in the Google search engine that they will be listed on the first page of results. From there, you get new visitors, and hopefully new customers. It may sound easy, but before the crawlers that scan websites will change your ranking in the search engines, you have some work to do. Take notice of the following five points if you want to finally step out of anonymity and become highly visible.
Keep your content reader friendly
When your site is viewed by search engines robots they look to see if your content is relevant and that you are not simply duplicating information on several pages. While it would seem that one should try to add many keywords to your website it is important not to stuff your articles with keywords in a robotic manner. This will cause search engines to skip over you. Write your content with a “human reader” in mind and create interesting and informational pieces. Remember to organize your pages nicely including headings, tags, bold words, etc. This is pretty simple to do, try to make you page appealing to the eye. One can also emphasize a few catchy short phrases/words to make your site memorable.
Facebook- one way ticket to the WWW
Create a Facebook page for your business. Facebook has become the golden online business card. With 500 million+ active users, you can already anticipate the good chances of your business being found in the Internet.
Optimize the content on your profile page by following these tips:
• Introduce your business- choose a nice motto, stick with it and use it on your webpage as well. Speak about performances: whether it is in sales, or innovative customer service methods or whatever else- just make sure you can be unique and that there is something that differentiates you from the rest.
• Don’t forget to update at least once a month or even more frequently with content rich information. This will keep all of your Facebook fans interested and aware of your company – directing traffic to your website.
Tweet the world
A Twitter account is more than necessary if you want to become visible to an additional 180+ million users. On Twitter your business can send short and to the point messages. In the marketing world, Twitter is the ultimate tool which allows you a maximum of 140 characters to say what you have to say. Text the world with news about your business, for example:
• ”Good news! Only today, 15% off for most of our items”
• ”Subscribe today, and get a surprise voucher. First 20 subscribers also receive discounts”
• ”Christmas specials: pay for one, take two home with you!”
These are only a few suggestions, and you certainly can be highly creative and market your products just the way you want. It’s free, it’s easy, and it’s fast. Twitter will make your presence online visible.
Social Bookmarking – Share, share and share…
Social bookmarking is one of the best ways to bring your business forward to light. Just spread your links to 20, 30 or even 50+ bookmarking sites, let people learn about you, and you learn about them. Bookmarking sites offer you a platform where you will be able to quickly find what you are looking for, thanks to the very well organized categories (such as most popular, recently added sites, etc.). Digg, StumbleUpon or Del.icio.us, are only a few such popular bookmarking sites.
Speak Up
Choose one forum that is related to your area of business, and become a highly active member. Speak up in matters that you are good at, let people gain confidence in you, and become interested in your business activity. Remember to link your website to your profile, and stay active: give advice, share your viewpoint, help people finding solutions to their problems. If you will become popular, your website will too!
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5 SEO tips for PR professionals and marketers
Inbound links are basically votes that are cast for your website. Each inbound link is a vote for you and your content, and in this democratized world of SEO the more quality votes you have, the more likely your site will turn up in search results. Here are 5 tips to help you get more quality inbound links to your site.
1. Link to your website from your blog correctly
Your blog is a great source for new content that engages your audience. It’s also a great place to include well crafted links to your website. A well crafted link consists of two things: the anchor text and the link.
The anchor text is the clickable text in a hyperlink. The link is the address of the page you are linking to. In search engines, both of these items have a “vote”.
Anchor text in a hyperlink is used by search engines to figure out what the linked page is about. For example, if I link to media database, it gives the Cision Media Database page a “vote” for the term “media database” as well as an inbound link from this blog.
A common mistake people make is linking words such as “Click here.” “Click here” doesn’t tell search engines anything about the page it’s linked to and is a wasted opportunity to gain some valuable SEO.
2. Link to your website from press releases correctly
Using the same linking concepts above, you can add well crafted links to your press releases and gain the inbound links from every site that posts your releases. One release can result in dozens of new inbound links!
3. LinkedIn
LinkedIn, has a Websites section under your profile where you can add up to three links to sites of your choice. Learn how to add website links to LinkedIn. There’s a little bit of a debate on how SEO friendly these links are, but if search engines pick up on these links they are a great opportunity to get three inbound links from a great domain.
4. Facebook & Twitter
Facebook and Twitter are great places to share content and ideas with other people. Unfortunately all links in these sites are automatically tagged to not count as inbound links for SEO.
Making friends and getting followers and engaging with them increases the probability that they will link to your content though. When they take that link out of Twitter or Facebook and share it on a blog or website, you get free publicity plus the benefits of increased SEO. Do the same for them and have that SEO karma come around full circle.
5. Digg
If you happen to know about Digg, you know that it can be tough to reach the front page of it (unless your post is about a new way of wrapping something in bacon). But if you happen to have a post that becomes popular and reaches the front page, it will get search engine credit and be a great inbound link. A key to making the front page of Digg is to have a lot of friends on Digg and tell them when you have a new story posted.
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Top 7 Digg Tips On Becoming a Top Power Digger! Tyae Diggs N Diggs
We have all heard of the second generation traffic and how powerful social bookmarking sites are becoming day after day. Social bookmark sites have proven to be very effective in boosting your site’s traffic and ranking.
The top social bookmark site, no question, is Digg. com. Everyday, thousands of marketers and webmasters struggle and use all kinds of tricks, in attempts to get their stories featured on Digg’s front page. Almost all diggers have heard of the term “power digger” or “top digg power user” and try their best to become one, as that would make it easier for their stories to get to the front page.
Other than understanding the digg system and how the site really works, there aren’t any secrets to help you achieve that goal. Below are 7 effective Digg Tips to help you become a Top Digg Power User in no time :
1- Create, Maintaing a Good Profile and Brand Yourself With a Vivid Avatar
Oftenly overlooked, but I can’t stress enough on this one. In order to become really successful in digg, you have to take the time and build up a good interesting profile, while keeping an eye on your daily stats which you should improve little by little. Some of these stats are: – Number of stories submitted – Number of stories that became popular – The popularity Ratio which (percent of submitted stories which were made popular) – The number of stories you personally dugg – The number of people who viewed your profile.
Your avatar is another important piece of your profile, or overall digg membership, that you need to pay special attention to. You should choose a good clear vivid avatar. This is KEY for getting attention to your posts. Not asking you to go with a very attention grabbing image as in sexy images, rare or bizarre images, but you SHOULD have a digg avatar. Don’t just mingle there as a ghost without one. It is also important that your chosen avatar is a clear non-blurry photo, be it your photo or just an image you chose to display.
2- Importance of Your Stories’ Titles and Descriptions
Take your time coming up with good titles. Think linkbait titles… (top 10…. 5 reasons why…. how to…etc). When choosing your title, you might as well think SEO. Your title’s keywords are what are taken into consideration when ranking you in the serps and getting you search engine traffic.
When it comes to the description, don’t reveal everything. Many members just copy the first paragraph of their posts/stories and paste them there. Not very effective technique. A good alternative which is far more better, is if you take your time and come up with a description that will make them CURIOUS about what is written in your post. ALso don’t forget to submit ONLY quality content. There is no place for trash or spam in digg. Careful! If one thing Digg is notorious for, is banning blogs/sites in lighting speed!
3- Use Feeds, News Alerts…etc. to Stay Current on very Current News Stories
Before anything, you need to know your audience. Majority of Digg’s audience seem to prefer and like certain topics over others. Fact. So it is better not wasting your time feeding them what they don’t digest. A simple example is the uncountable iPhone stories that fill digg and many times easily make it to the front page. On the opposite side, anything positive about Mr.Bush will never see the light!
Generally talking, it is noted that digg users “digg” stories related to new gadgets, technology or world news, so if your niche is already one of these then you have an advantage.
The only way to be the very first to post a certain news story, is to keep yourself updated and notified of the news and hot topics. If you have subscribed to rss feeds, you should tick and choose the news option, use social aggregators, along with subscribing to news alerts. Another idea to keep it simpler, is to subscribe to news alerts from only top news site, aggregators, and niche sites.
4- Filtering Through and Adding Active Digg Friends
With digg, as much as it is important to expand your network of friends, you also should note that most of them won’t be of use to you as they aren’t active members, and therefore will only waste your time.
Many people think that by adding top diggers, that they will very much benefit from them. Not always the case. I personally go to digg’s homepage, and look for stories that were made popular within minutes of their submission. Most of these stories are submitted by top diggers. I then tend to view the “friends” of this top digger, and add them as my friends in hopes that they reciprocate. It wouldn’t hurt adding the power digger himself, but the point is that his friends are more likely the reason for his post to become popular within a few minutes. You also have to watch the activities of any friends you add. You should select friends who are active and who digg your stories when you ask them to. Whenever you submit a story and shout it to your friends, take a look at who dugg it (there is a button to check that). By time you can tell active friends from idle ones. Don’t hesitate in replacing the dead beats with new active friends.
An ideal Digg friend :
* Checks in and uses the site everyday
* Diggs many stories
* Checks for stories their friends submit- diggs them regularly
* Submits stories that you will enjoy reading and voting on
* Does not submit way too many stories
* Does not have 70 billion friends
5- Stay Active
To become successful with digg, you have to become an active member. An active member is a member who submits, diggs, shares and comments on daily basis. At least try the digging and submitting part on a daily basis. I will soon tell you why. I personally give digg at least half an hour a day, even when I’m busy. One reason why you should stay active, is that your digg friends (network) are watching you to determine whether or not you are worthy to be on their list of friends, or just some idle laying there. They might choose to de-friend you or remove you from their lists. Remember that digg is a mutual community, where you notify “shout as used by digg” your friends of new submissions and digg each other’s stories. They also want active members as friends.
6- Submitting Your Own Stories
Stay away from submitting your own stories. You can do it once in a while, but make sure you submit other stories as well. If you submit only your stories, you won’t last long in digg and very possible would be subject for a bann. You can have other people submit your stories but try not to make it a habbit for you to submit them.
7- Save Your Site From the Negative Impact of the Digg Effect
If you are going to attempt getting your stories to the front page of digg, you need to worry about this…The Digg Effect. Simply put, The Digg Effect is when your site “crashes” from a hell lot of Diggers visiting it at once. Your server gets suddenly hit with a boost of hundreds and thousands of requests, overloading it. If your site cannot handle a popular Digg story that made it to the front page, then it might be wise to first mirror your site.
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5 Tips to Promoting Your Website
Many of us have websites which contains valuable information with a well laid out design, but can’t seem to bring in traffic. It can be very frustrating because you’ve put in so much work developing a masterpiece and no one can see it. Well no more worries. I’m going to give you 5 easy tips that will not only drive traffic to your site, but bring in consistent traffic and overtime be placed on the first page of the top search engines.
Tip #1. Search engine optimization. The best traffic still comes from SEO. I say this because not only is it a free way to obtain tremendous traffic to your site, you will also receive consistent traffic and increase your chances of getting placed on the first page of the top search engines. There are two things that your site needs when using this method. Relevance and Importance. Your site gains relevance through keywords. Having great keywords makes it easier for people to find your site in the search engines. Your site gains importance by the amount of quality links that are linking to your site. The more links that are linked to your site, the higher your ranking in the search engines. So you need both in order to receive the traffic your site deserves.
Tip #2. Article Marketing. It’s a reliable technique to not only gaining traffic, but also obtaining backlinks to your site. So you should write quality articles with a link to your site and publish them in several article directories. A quality article should have at least 400 words. Write about a solution to your readers needs and wants. Don’t try to make your article a sales page. You will lose the reader and most article sites won’t publish your article.
Tip #3. Link building- Again, start building links to your website. The more links you obtain, the more traffic you will receive and the higher you will rank on the search engines which will bring in even more traffic. You can do this by reciprocal or one way linking. Make sure that the sites you are linked to are well established sites and have at least a “4″ google page rank. A good way to find linking partners is to type in your main keyword in the search box and obtain the email and phone numbers to the top high ranking sites. Link to their website first, then ask them to link back to you or purchase a software that does all the work for you.
Tip #4. Forum posting. Another great way to promote your site is by joining web forums that share the same topic as your site. In these forums, you can reply to members that are looking for answers to their problems. To establish credibility, reply to members in the forum often. The more you visit the forum and reply to people, the more people will see you as an expert in the field and click on your site.
Tip #5 Social bookmarking- Social bookmarking is a new way people are putting their site out for the world to see. It’s a great way to drive traffic and multiply the number of visitors to your site in no time. Just make sure you write some convincing articles that people would want to bookmark and share with their friends and family members.
So this is a good place to start. You can try one or all of them. Each one will work great and you can start seeing traffic in no time.
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Tips to bring visitors to your new blog
Here I am going to share some tips on how to bring traffic to a newly launched blog. Though, I am not a professional but whatever I know is writing below.
1) Write an article which has a good and original content and submit it to free article sites. Then simply leave a link to your website there. It is one of the method by which you come to the notice of google search engine quickly.
2) Put a link to your website on social networking sites like facebook, orkut, myspace etc. It helps in getting new visitors too. Also you can create a self composed mail where you can mention about yourself and your blog details. Send the mail to your friends, ask them to comment if they like the post and also tell them to refer others.
3) Add a social bookmark plugin in your blog post so that users can bookmark your post when they like.
4) Submit your blog to blog directories but be sure to put it in right categories. It also helps to get visitors. Go to blog directories and look for top bloggers and visit their websites. Don’t forget to comment on their post and leave a link to your websites.
5) Remember to ping on various social bookmarking websites whenever you update your blog. This help others to know that your blog is updated. Also register to feedburner website so that user can subscribe to your blog post regularly.
This is just a few tips to bring a decent traffic to your blog and get noticed by search engines. Don’t forget to share your valuable ideas. Soon i will continue with the next part of this post.
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Multilevel Marketing Tips | 3 Tips that are a must if you want to succeed in MLM
Multilevel marketing is definitely a business that requires some thought. There are so many angles or avenues to pursue. Multilevel marketing can be a call up your friends and family and invite them to a business at the local Hyatt Hotel or your sponsor’s living room. It can be a business where you talk to anybody who gets within three feet of you (three foot rule).
It can be a business where you purchase telephone leads and then call everyone of the leads on the phone and present them with what you believe to be the best opportunity on the planet.
It can also be a business that is based entirely on the internet or perhaps a combination of all the aforementioned ideas.
It is the intention of this article to list three Multilevel Marketing Tips that are solely for the purpose of marketing on the internet. Not to say the internet marketing is the only way to market a business opportunity but if you are going to market on the internet, these tips are a must!
Multilevel Marketing Tip #1. When marketing your websites online it is absolutely necessary to have original content. Content that is valuable to the reader and that you have produced. If your website looks like all of the other canned websites out there, no one will want to have anything to do with your website. There are too many all over the internet that look the same as yours. If, however, you offer original, valuable content, people will want to come back for more. They will bookmark your site and return for more information. The content must be free of charge.
Multilevel Marketing Tip #2. Google does not rank your site on how valuable it is, it ranks your site on how many other sites link to it and how important those sites are. ’Link popularity’ is a very real thing on the internet. If you have popular sites linking to you, your site is going to be seen a lot more often than if those links are less popular. The best way to build link popularity is by using a strategy of article marketing, social bookmarking, and videos. Search engines like these three sources of information and will rank you higher by using article marketing, social bookmarking, and videos.
Multilevel Marketing Tip #3. Make your page focus around one central theme. Don’t try to rank one page for everything. Strive to rank one page around a few keywords or phrases, and then create niche pages on your site that you put out on the internet to draw people to your website.
If you will use these three Multilevel Marketing Tips to promote your primary business opportunity on the internet, you will begin to see success. Expect a 90 day cycle. What you put out on the internet today will come back in 90 days in the form of elevated traffic to your website. The more you follow these three tips, the more success you will have.
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SEO and Search Engine Optimization Tips
What is SEO?
SEO is the active practice of promoting a web site by improving internal and external aspects in order to increase the traffic the site receives from search engines. It is focused on website promotion by improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via natural (organic) search results for targeted keywords.
Search Engine Optimization Companies that practice SEO can vary; some have a highly specialized focus, while others take a broader and general approach. Optimizing a web site for search engines can require looking at so many unique elements that many Professional Search Engine Optimizers (SEO experts) consider themselves to be in the broad field of website optimization (since so many of those elements intertwine).
We have listed out some of the most essential Search Engine Optimization ethics that needs to be formulated for website promotion:
Directory Submission
Directory submission is a great source of links to the website. Submissions to web directories are the best place to start promoting a new site. Web directories offer links for free, for a fee or in exchange for a link.
Tips:
Always submit to relevant and most appropriate category
Try to submit to a quality page
If paid submission, then be sure to check the relevancy and quality of the link page
If Reciprocal, then exchange link with similar PR or a page with higher PR.
Link Popularity
Link Building or back links are very important for optimizing the site on search engines. Google counts every back link as a vote delivered for your website but also considers the quality of the page linking to your website. So, only relevant and quality pages with less number of links should be preferred for Link building.
Tips:
Always choose relevant and quality pages for link building
Free one way links are the best
Pages that link to your website should be indexed with Google
Pages that link to your website should be no more than 2 clicks away from the home page and should contain no more than 30 links on the page.
Social Bookmarking
Social Book Marking has become a very important strategy in the SEO process. Social bookmarking sites are “tag based”- which means you can “tag” them with keywords so your visitors that bookmark your site can find them easily later. Search engines when crawl, index these tags, as well as the link, so you are essentially getting free one-way links from high-traffic sites, with all of your keywords attached to them.
Tips:
Chose proper tags for your web listing
Share your bookmarks with your friends and others
Promote your bookmarks as well
Comment on others bookmark and let others comment on yours
Keyword Research and Analysis
Keywords play the most important role when it comes to website optimization. As search Engines need just the most informative and useful sites for their visitors, they prefer the sites containing content with the highest priority of the keywords being searched.
Expert Keyword Research is the cornerstone to a successful SEO.
Tips:
Always chose keywords relevant to your site’s theme
Use multi-word phrases
Research keywords specifically for each page
Country specific Keyword Research
Perform Effective Keyword Analysis
Ongoing Keyword Research
Search Engine Friendly Design
Before starting search engine optimization process for the website, it is very important to make website Search Engine Optimization friendly. Making web site user friendly as well as Search engine friendly includes a few simple steps.
Make it simple
Organize website
Avoid Javascript and images
Avoid scrolling
White Hat SEO
White hat technique to Search Engine Optimization consists of ethical methods of search engine optimization which are recommended by search engines as part of good design. Some of the most popular white hat techniques are:
Quality Content
Use of Relevant Keywords
Use Structural (Semantic) Mark Up and Separate Content from Presentation
Proper use of Titles and Meta Data
Keyword Research and Effective Keyword Use
Quality Inbound Links
Tags: Engine, Optimization, Search, Tips
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4 Tips For Raising Your Search Engine Rankings
.Search engine rankings are an important factor to consider when you have a web site that needs more traffic. If your web site doesn’t have a good position in the rankings then it will be hard to find.The best way to automate your complete process of social bookmarking is available at bookmarking demon. Also – automated social bookmarking is the best way to take your search engine ranking to the highest level in no time at all.
Since most searchers click on the first few results, you need to make sure that your web site is ranked highly enough so that people can easily find it on the first page of search engine results. Although no search engine optimization company can guarantee a high rankings for your site permanently, often times hiring a web marketing company will pay off many times over. For those of you doing it yourself or those of you that want to ensure your marketing company is doing a good job, here are some tips for raising the search engine rankings of your web site.
1. Content
Content is an important factor in high search engine rankings. Make sure that you have plenty of content throughout your site with your target keywords in the articles. It’s also worth doing a search for web sites similar to yours and taking a look at their articles for ideas. Keywords are an important factor and they should be used throughout the content of your website.
2. Web Site URL
Your web site’s URL can help you rank higher with the search engines if it contains your keywords. However, don’t think that naming your site after your keywords will always help your rankings – you need to do more than just that. But still, it is one of the factors in improving a search engine ranking.
3. Search Terms
Search terms should be written out in text, instead of graphics. If you use pictures, be sure to give them alt tags. If you want a good rank in search engines then these things that may seem small should be considered, as search engines can read the text but not the graphics.
4. Page Title
The title of your page is very important, and if you choose the title properly then it can surely make a big difference in search engine ranking. Terms such ‘free article on safe children’s toys’, or ‘contact the children’s toy expert today’ are good to use as titles on pages containing such content. The titles themselves are very specific to the page and also may not have much competition being as specific as they are. The title area is the most important place to include your keyword phrases, so make sure that you utilize it.
Master these four tips and you’ll be on your way to getting free traffic. Look for other tips to keep your site moving up.
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Tips for Submitting to the Social Media Sites
Social bookmarking involves submitting URL of your article to a social media site. By submitting your article, the visitor will get to know about your Company. Social bookmarking is an effective way to promote your products and services because you can reach worldwide audience. Traditional media advertising does not offer so much exposure as a social media site. In addition, traditional media advertising is expensive and not suitable for small business.
Some social media sites such as Digg allow you to create a large network of friends. You should only befriend people that have similar interests. It is useless if you befriend people with a different interest. For example, if you are a dentist, you should befriend people who are interested in teeth care or teeth whitening. You can befriend as many people as possible. However, you should not befriend too many people per day. If you befriend too many people, you will noticed by the moderator and be banned. The moderator ban you because he thinks your purpose on the site is to promote your product and services. After you have befriended some friends, you must wait for them to approve your friendship. Once you have built a large network of friends, you can start to promote your products by posting relevant links.
In order to get to the front page, your article must have a lot of votes. You can ask your friends to vote for your article. In return, you will vote for their articles. If you have a large network of friends, you can get a lot of votes and rank on the first page. If you don’t have friends, you must write interesting title and description to encourage people to vote for you. You can reference the posts which ranked in the front page.
Many search engine optimization (SEO) companies offer social bookmarking submission services. If you are tired of submitting to social bookmarking sites, you can hire a SEO Company to perform the social bookmarking submission for you. The SEO Company will offer a detailed social bookmarking submission report after they have completed the submission process. The social bookmarking report contains links to your bookmarks at the social bookmarking sites. By outsourcing the social bookmarking job, you will have plenty of free time. You can use the free time to do other more important things in life. Before hiring a SEO Company, you should read customer reviews. If you couldn’t find any customer reviews through the search engine, you can go to the forum and ask question about the SEO Company. You may come across someone who have used the directory submission service from the SEO Company. If many customers offer positive reviews, you should go ahead and sign up for the SEO Company. If you have a lot of websites to social bookmark, you can discuss with the SEO Company and try to get a discount from them. Normally, SEO companies will give discount for bulk order because they don’t want to lose customers.
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7 Tips for Making Twitter Work for You and Your Business!
Copyright (c) 2009 Lindsay Glass
Your ultimate goal when using Twitter should be to network, it’s like an online social hour (or social 140 characters). And like in every networking organization it’s all about who you know, and in Twitter’s case, who you “follow” and who “follows” you. The key to making Twitter work for you and your business is to weave the social aspects of your life in with your business. So how do you do that?
Below, you will find 7 steps that will help you develop not only a loyal Twitter fan base but also reveal some dos and don’ts to making Twitter work for you.
First, you’ve got to find people! So, how do you do that?
1. Search for people you may know who are already using twitter via the “find people” link up at the top of Twitter. Once you click that link you can type in their name and see if they’re currently on Twitter so you can connect with them.
2. Using the same “find people” link up at the top and then clicking on “find on other networks” you can match up your current contacts from your Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail and MSN accounts with your contact’s twitter accounts and then follow them from there.
3. Use the twitter search! You can either search right from your Twitter homepage or go to http://search.twitter.com/. Search using the keywords for your industry and find people tweeting about specific topics in your industry and within your niche. From there you can follow them, and also follow their followers!
Now that you’re on your way to having followers, here are a couple of tips to maximize your “Tweets.”
4. Mix in your “social tweets” with your “business tweets.” Remember, people buy people, and that goes for Twitter too! Build a loyal fan base by allowing them to get to know you, like you, trust you and respect you and weave in the “I’ve written blog about social media, check it out at www.celebritysites.com” (of course, you would actually link to the blog post, but since I haven’t written that yet… which now I will… I just put our homepage in there for demonstration).
5. You can also use http://search.twitter.com/ to find other current tweets about your industry that you can comment on. If you find a tweet that interests you, you can respond directly to that person by using “@TheirName” in your tweet so they get your reply, ultimately contributing to the Twitter community, gaining more content for your own twitter account and participating socially with other users.
And finally, here are some of my favorite Twitter tools to make your life easier!
6. TweetDeck (http://www.tweetdeck.com/) allows you to manage your Twitter account in a much simpler way by separating your replies, direct messages as well as specified groups of people. TweetDeck also allows you to update your Facebook status automatically with your Tweets.
7. Tweet Later (http://www.tweetlater.com/) allows you to setup tweets to be sent out at a scheduled time, automatically follow anyone who follows you and send out auto-responders to anyone who follows you.
Remember, Twitter can be used for many different purposes including social networking, marketing a business, prospecting, research and new ideas, reconnecting with old friends, etc. Millions are tweeting every day including just about every TV show, radio personality, movie star, pop singer, rap artist, sportscaster and professional athlete. Although this concept may seem a little foreign to you, remember that email was once that way and now it’s second nature! Ultimately, what makes Twitter so popular is the ability to connect with not only friends, but likeminded people. Remember, people buy people!
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