Twitter is a social networking tool that lets you build a list of contacts that you can interact
with in real time, but it isn’t meant to be used like an instant messenger tool. This Twitter Marketing Tip will explain some of Twitter’s SEO benefits to you.

There are several features of Twitter that a smart person will use to their advantage for
marketing on Twitter and a few of these are:

1. Your tweets are added to your main Twitter profile page for visitors to see.
2. Your tweets are indexed individually according to the content in each tweet.
3. Your Twitter page has an RSS Feed that can be added to feed readers and RSS Aggregators.
4. Your Twitter page has an RSS Feed that can be promoted like any other Web 2.0 property.
5. Your tweets are often indexed by Google in a matter of minutes.
6. Your indexed tweets and followers help build the Page Rank of your Twitter page with their inbound links.
7. The keyword phrases used in each tweet MAY lead people back to your Twitter profile which has a link to your website.
8. If you use the keywords you are targeting with that Twitter account in your bio, you are making it easier to be found by anyone using the Twitter search engine to find new contacts associated with a specific word or phrase.
9. You can import your Twitter RSS Feed into your Facebook account, your FriendFeed account and other social networking services. Each of these services has different audiences, different friends of friends, different indexing in search engines and different internal search engines, so your tweets can have a far wider reach than just your Twitter followers.
10. Each of the social networking services mentioned above gets indexed by the search engines. Some of them use the ‘nofollow’ tag which means the site doesn’t want any link juice (PageRank) passed to you. This belief may or may not be true, but that’s irrelevant because the link has traffic generation potential from all search engines and authority is built in some, if not all, of them.
11. If you use Aweber for your mailing lists, you can set broadcast messages you send to be saved as an HTML page, sent as an RSS Feed and posted to your Twitter account. (Imagine all of the different ways this information can now be accessed besides email AND the number of people that haven’t opted in for email delivery that can read your messages.)
12. There are widgets and plugins that let you import you tweets into web pages and blogs which means a steady stream of fresh content and relationship building if used correctly.
13. There are WordPress plugins that will automatically take your tweets and publish them as pages or posts on your blog.

So here is what you’ve learned:

1. Twitter is a social networking tool you can use to connect with friends, customers or prospects.
2. Twitter is loved by Google because it’s nothing but fresh content.
3. The individual tweets (posts) are 140 characters or less including spaces which forces you to think about what you say.
4. The words and phrases in your tweet is how it is indexed.
5. Your tweets and followers help build backlinks to your Twitter page.
6. Your Twitter page has an RSS Feed that can be marketed like any other Web 2.0 property.
7. Your Twitter RSS feed can be added to many social media services and Feed Readers such as Google Reader.
8. Twitter can help you in business if used correctly, BUT it can also get you in trouble if you post a tweet that isn’t well thought out.
9. Tweets are public and searchable by ANYONE, so be very aware that you are posting to the entire web and not just a single person.

Hope this tip about how to use Twitter marketing for SEO helps you to use your Twitter account more effectively.

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What is the first thing you do when you click on an interesting Tweet on Twitter?

This marketing tip will share what MOST of us do. Most of us will look at the photo and read the bio first. A Twitter site with a real person’s photo and a bio will attract over 8 times as many visitors and followers as one without a bio, and that is one of the most decisive factors when deciding whether to follow or not follow a person. If you didn’t get a nice photo and fill out your bio or it’s not very descriptive, you are missing out on many potential followers.

Another important detail to remember in your Twitter bio is your location. Twitter goes worldwide, NOT JUST the States. So, NOT everyone has any idea where “Nebraska” is. Much less, this is social media and failing to be SPECIFIC, is NOT helpful to anyone who may read your info. Post your city/town, state/province & country. I tend to BLOCK SPAMMERS, PORN, those who fail to post a picture & those who fail to post SPECIFICS of their location. As your list of followers increases, the responsibility goes up to provide a connection. Just having a large number of followers is a BIG MISTAKE. You are doing them a dis-service and leaving money on the table if you fail to connect with them.

Twitter is a little more generous with your bio and gives you 160 characters to use to describe your self and who you are too. So use all of them! You’re probably wondering if having a photo, a bio and website link in your Twitter profile can actually make a huge difference in how may followers. Well, yeah, and there are lots of studies to prove just how valuable the bio is. Google it!

Writing a good bio in only 160 characters can be a bit challenging, but just keep in mind that you don’t have to give out your life story. Try to focus on some critical keywords that will really describe you to your audience. Use the keywords that you think people will use when they run a search on Twitter. Try to think about it like SEO (search engine optimization) for Twitter. Just like when you optimize a website for the search engines. When writing your Twitter bio, just try to think about what kind of followers you want to attract to you and your sites.

Here is what I recommend when you write your Twitter bio:

Be real and transparent. Let people get to know you and tell them what you do and what you like. Let them see what you look like, the real you, not some picture you grabbed online. Take some time and create the absolute best bio about yourself that you can. (Leave out the expert and guru stuff, cause they will figure that out by themselves.) Describe your interests and what you like to do for fun.Tell them what you’re good at and what you need help with. Let them know you and you’ll soon have a bunch of devoted followers.

Do not forget to think about your niche though, and what kind of targeted followers you want to attract, so select your keywords wisely. It will make it easier to monetize later.

If you haven’t taken the time to write a proper Twitter bio, go over these marketing tips again and go do it right now!

If you’ve recently joined Twitter, you might be wondering if it can really help you drive traffic to your small business blog or website. If you don’t have a bunch of followers, it can seem like a daunting proposition! This Twitter marketing tip will show you that once you have followers, you can drive a ton of traffic to your blog or website using Twitter.

The first thing you need to do is add as many followers as you can. Now, please remember that Twitter does have a limit on this, and you need about 2,000 people to follow you before you’re able to follow lots more people. But, once you have a good amount of followers, it is as simple as the followers seeing a link to your blog or website and going there. People are on Twitter every hour of every single day, and you are likely to get lots of clicks from them when they want to see what you have to say there.

Now, when people land on your page, they need to be intrigued so they’ll want to read more and click on your links. This will help bring people into your sales funnel, and help get them interested in you and your blog or website. Be sure that your content is extremely relevant to the niche your Twitter account is based on. That way, you’ll be getting more targeted and focused prospects who are interested in exactly what you have to say and in buying what you are promoting.

The more followers you have on Twitter, the likelier it is that you will get tons of traffic to your blog or website. That’s why there have been several automated tools developed to help you get traffic more easily. Some of these tools will auto follow and unfollow people for you, so you don’t have to sit there all day and click people to follow. Click here to view more details or HummingBird 2 – By Far the Best Marketing Tool for Twitter!

Some tools will even post Tweets for you at predetermined times. It’s a great time saver, but please realize that Twitter seems to be cracking down on these methods a bit. You have to follow the Twitter rules at all times.

There are also products and sites that will help you generate content for your Twitter posts. There is one product that helps you set up content with Google for free, and it’s completely legal to use! You can also outsource your posts for a very reasonable cost. Using highly relevant content in this way is very hands off and can generate a lot of interest in the things you have to say on Twitter. Just be sure to keep it a mixture of great content and information, personal details about you, and just a few sales messages and you’re sure to get a lot of traffic. Keep it fun and keep it simple.

At first, it can seem slow to get the followers you need to give you lot of traffic. But then it snow balls and slowly builds momentum and starts rolling faster and faster and you’ll have thousands of followers who are all visiting your content loaded small business blog or website daily. This is a easy way to lead to some great profits for you online. Hope this Twitter marketing tip helps bring traffic your way.

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Twitter just decided to implement a new limit – the 1000 follows a day  rule. This new rule will affect everyone who follows new people on a regular basis. It will even affect those who just follow back their big lists of followers. So I decided to share what I’ve found out in this Marketing Tip.

What’s Wrong With This New Twitter Rule?

No one knew about it or that it was coming! It seems that Twitter admin did not have the common courtesy to report this new rule/limit to their loyal followers. This new feature was not even written about on the support section of the Twitter help blog till Monday, 4/20/09. That’s when Twitter officially announced that this limit is for real.

They say they are trying to optimize the follow limit for good Twitter people who auto-follow other people. What’s wrong with this picture? Everyone thought it was a bug. Yep, me too.

So… why did Twitter do this?

One reason could be that in the past few days Twitter has experienced a very slow performance from their servers. This could be from the 1 million auto-follows from @britneyspears maybe? Or it could be from the Kutcher/CNN faceoff! Maybe it’s happening just because everyone wants to use an auto-follow tool. Now, don’t get me wrong, the auto-follow feature of these 3rd party programs is very cool, so cool that everyone wants to have them. Face it, Twitter is becoming automated, it can’t keep up.

The Twitter Fail Whale probably doesn’t like all the bots/scripts, that people are using, picking on him. So… the more people who use these new automated tools, the more often the Fail Whale shows up. So Twitter admin decided… lets slow up the show! It’s probably a very good idea in actuality, but the worst mistake Twitter made was not to inform anyone about it.

The second bad idea that Twitter had was to just implement a dump restriction without first testing if it would be effective. It doesn’t seem like there is a real Google-like algorithm to it. There seems to be no genuine reason behind it that can optimize and help the experience of those Twittering. It also seems there is nothing good in it for the real big guys on Twitter. They are miffed!

So… WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO US TWITTER?

Maybe after thousands of  support tickets and millions of negative discussions on the internet the Twitter team will deactivate this limit or at least tell us how to optimize it for our own good. We can always hope.

What do all you Twitter fans think?

Was this the best idea that a big, super company like Twitter could have come up with? Was it fair to all the people who are loyal, Tweeting fans of Twitter? The ones who, like me, try to follow all the rules and use this great social marketing site as a tool to help build their marketing network.

Who knows what Twitter will come up with next. Maybe a link or RT limit? Scary stuff Twitter fans. Hope this Twitter Marketing Tip helped. I’d like to  hear your comments.

It’s the same reason 99.99% of the population will NEVER make it big online and never have their own successful business…

Let me tell you…

I was a struggling marketer for several years. I know what they’re going through, because I’ve done the same things, made those mistakes.

I’m still learning every day, but it’s really coming together for me now.

In these last few years I have had countless newbie’s approach me for advice and guidance in their businesses. I find there is something very strange and disturbing about what they are doing!

Think about it. Every single question that I seem to get is always….

“What are The Fastest and Quickest Ways to Become Successful?”

• Should I find and create a great product?
• Should I sell products for affiliates?
• Should I just give free services away online?
• Should I teach other people how to do what I do?

Those ideas are all fantastic. Any one of them will work and you can make a lot of money. However, they are NOT really the whole answer.Why not?Let me give you an example: Just say you create a great product tomorrow. How do you expect to sell a bunch of them and to whom? How will you market the product to all the hungry buyers?Because, if you have NO LIST and NO consistent traffic to your site there is NO WAY you can sell your product to the right people, targeted people.Are you going to spend money on paid advertising? That can be very risky. In fact, if you are not careful, you could end up throwing thousands of dollars right down the drain without any return on investment (ROI).

How do I know all these facts?

Because I was one of the victims, I’ve done it. I’ve spent close to $3,000 on Google Adwords without any ROI. It was a total loss! First I blamed Google. Then I thought, well, other people do it, why not me? How come I’m not making any money here? I must be stupid!

But wait a minute…When you know the facts, you do NOT need to worry about whether your campaign will be successful or not. It is ONLY a matter of how much time you spend to build it. This system works.

What is it?

You need to build a LIST. (Not just a regular list!)

You need to build a VERY RESPONSIVE list.

A list that allows you to build relationships with your readers from the first day they opt-in to your database.

Why this is important? That’s very simple too! A lot of marketers build a list and ABUSE that list by sending people offer after offer. It doesn’t really matter if the people want what is being offered. They just keep sending emails and offers.They do NOT build a great relationship with them by giving their list a proper education. They just want any email address to send out an offer to, and another, and another, and another. Finally, the poor prospect opts out and is never heard from again.

This is a BIG MISTAKE…

When you EDUCATE your list all the time, they will want to follow your lead. They will RESPECT you as being knowledgeable and as a leader. When every email you send gives them value and important information on a subject that they have indicated they are very interested in, they will open every single email from you and read it. They will be excited to hear from you.

When you answer their questions and help them in any way you can, they will come back for more.

When this happens, and most likely it will, every single time you have a great offer, they will definitely want to buy it from you right away.

Imagine having 5,000 people on a list who will buy your $47 dollar product every time you email them about it. Imagine having 10,000. How about 1,000,000?

Do the math!

You need money for a new car? Send out an email. You want a new house? Send out an email. You want a fantastic vacation? Send out an email.

How many subscribers do you want to have?
How many LOYAL readers do you want to have?
IT’S ALL IN THE LIST… Build it with love.