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Give it Back to Twitter
October 29, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
I have read several articles and podcasts on how twitter can be used for your business, to make money and guide others. The most practical uses that I have discovered is the opportunity to give back.
It’s great to have a status update that tells your friends what you are up to. But don’t we have facebook for that? Why not use Twitter as a link-sharer to people who are following you.
Currently 83% of my followers are people I don’t know. They found out about me on the internet through my blog or articles and decided that the kind of life I live is something they want to be exposed to more. Knowing this I tend to create Twitter updates that are not completely pointless.
Try adding a link in your Twitter. It shows that you are not just thinking about yourself. Instead you are taking your best link or discovery of the day and passing it along with the hopes that it will help someone else as it has helped you. Clearly, not following anyone on Twitter is not something completely selfish on your part. Make sure that your tweets are informative by choosing the one top highlight in the last 2 days that you were really happy to find.
I know we are just talking about Twitter, but here are some tips to keep in mind when trying to decide what to put up:
• It should be something that made you “aha!” when you first saw it.
• Mention what you found interesting in your tweet (if you have room)
• Focus on links that compliment your niche (if you have one). This will keep the people who don’t know you on your list, which is more advertising power for you.
• Keep your posts light-hearted and happy.
Try to at least do that last point. John Doe from Alabama River doesn’t really want to know that you had a bad day…after all, in my case that would work against the content of my site anyway!
More Website Traffic: 5 Surefire Tips
October 25, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Here are five surefire tips to increase your website traffic:
1. Writing articles is a win-win-win situation. The ezine editor gets content, the reader gets valuable information and you get backlinks. And it’s not hard, just tedious. Go through everything you’ve written down as part of creating your website and, if applicable, producing your product. This is your area of expertise and others will benefit from it. And it’s original. Highlight separate topics and bring like topics together. Associate relevant keywords with each topic. Pick a keyword and write a headline based on it. Use three to five relevant topics as your content. Finish off with a resource box like mine at the end of this article. Rinse and repeat until you’ve got several articles. To get more website traffic, submit them to article directories with high Google PR and low Alexa Rank. You can see a list of these at the Traffic Floodgate website under Best Directories.
2. Create an account at http://www.trailfire.com. Find four other sites, blogs or articles on the same or a similar topic as yours, but who are not direct competitors, and link them and your site together in a “trail.” Include your best keywords in each review. Google loves these “fire trails” and with luck will rank yours highly for your chosen keywords.
3. An oldie but still a goodie. Create several unique (very important – you will get deleted if they are the same or even too similar – you might even need to create separate accounts) advertisements at http://www.craigslist.org across different regions in the Small Business category, using your best keyword as the anchor text linking back to your site. Craigslist has a Google Page Rank of a whopping 8!
4. Every time you create a website, you should add a Wordpress blog to it. If you’re using cPanel, it’s a very simple process. Click on Fantastico, then select Wordpress blog, new installation and follow the simple process through. Do a Google search on Wordpress theme (free if you like) pick one that appeals and follow the instructions to change the theme. If you don’t, your blog will look like a million others. And what to post to your blog? Why, the articles you wrote in Tip 1. Try to post one a week, and watch your traffic go up.
5. Include a keyword based anchor text link back to your website in every blog entry plus keyword tags. Tempt your blog visitors with a free e-book or other valuable information. Make sure that http://www.technorati.com/ is included in your blog’s ping list. (Click on Options:Writing:Update Services to maintain your Ping List.) Then when you post, the Technorati spider will list your blog post on their huge PR8 site under each of your tags.
Future articles will expand on each of the topics covered in this article as well as introduce new ones, all with the single purpose of getting more website traffic for you.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Phil Lancaster is recognized as one of the leading experts on getting new websites indexed and ranked quickly and then driving free, targeted traffic to them. Visit http://www.trafficfloodgate.com.
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