Some More Twitter Tricks for the Internet Business Person

I am really on this Twitter kick lately, and I love it! Normally, I discover something new, am fascinated with it for a while, then my interest wanes as I move on to the next great discovery. However, I have to say, I really do like Twitter for its simplicity, ease of use, and personal networking applications.

I find it much simpler than other social networking applications - I don't have to create a new profile for every new business venture, pimp out my page with skins and graphics, or join a whole bunch of pretentious groups that are just a breeding ground for spam. (Although Twitter has been getting invaded by the spammers a little lately, as all good things are these days).

I genuinely believe in ethical, honest business practices. I genuinely want to help people in whatever business I enter into, that's just me. Not everyone in Internet marketing are even on the same planet as I am with that belief (even though everyone claims to be on some level, it is really easy to see through on most people). And bringing things back to Twitter, it is so simple and direct that people entering into Twitter with only spamming on their mind are very transparent versus people that genuinely want to network and establish novel connections with others. Bonus for me :-)

So to the bones of this post - my greatest Twitter tip: establish genuine connections. Use that direct message button, reply to people's messages, and participate in the community and communication. By doing this, your Twitter experience will be incredibly enhanced.

Will this tip get you sales and conversions overnight? Most likely not. But by consistently building a value-centered network of connections, you are much more likely to produce a quality connection for a future sale with ethical and honest communication rather than with spamming.

I will now get of my business ethics soapbox. :-)

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Hubpages - Better than Squidoo?

Internet marketers are always looking for new marketing methods. Staying ahead of the competition is extremely vital, and the Internet marketing and home business arena is extremely competitive, as well all know of course!

I mentioned Squidoo before as a great marketing tool, and very user friendly. Squidoo is still a fantastic tool, and a massive amount of traffic-increasing tips are out there to help each lens you build to get rated higher and get more traffic. I definitely still recommend checking it out.

I mention Squidoo in order to highlight another similar concept - HubPages. HubPages is an online publishing ecosystem where authors submit useful, informative articles on topics they know and love, and then earn royalties for their contributions through Google AdSense, eBay Partner Network or Amazon Associates.

While you can earn money directly through HubPages, it is also a useful tool for a home business or internet marketing business.

The most important thing to remember with HubPages -- provide quality content and DO NOT SPAM. you can absolutely backlink to an informative blog you might have, or an educational landing page, but HubPages delete hubs with spam links or links with popups. They also delete hubs with duplicate content, so BE ORIGINAL.

A great feature of HubPages is that their Google and Yahoo search ratings are continually climbing (even more so than Squidoo). Therefore, utilizing HubPages effectively can help tremendously with your current SEO efforts.

HubPages also does not allow adult content or spam content (a large portion of Squidoo's lenses) and still maintains search engine ratings comparable to, if not better than, Squidoo's ratings.

Try out HubPages and let me know your results! I would love the feedback!!

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Backlinking

A great way to get website visitors is with effective keyword backlinking. What is backlinking you ask? Backlinking is references pointing back towards another website. Specifically in Internet marketing, backlinking is placing your home business website link within the context of relevant, keyword rich content (the more relevant, the more effective) of other pages. For example, placing your website link attached to keywords within your Squidoo page or Hubpage directing viewers back to your home page.

The particular beauty of this technique is that people clicking on relevant words usually denotes an element of interest in the particular keyword. Therefore, by attaching links to your home business page within related words, you are able to attain better conversion rates with specified interest.

As an added bonus (if what I'm saying isn't sweet enough already!), the greater the number of backlinks directed to your intended page dangling out there on the Internet, the higher your page's search engine ranking becomes. SEO, achieved.

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Twitter Applications and Enhancements

Just a quick blog on some Twitter applications I was talking about before to check out (Read last blog post for more info on Twitter).

Twitter has some great applications that increase the ease with which one can tweet. I am not going to pretend that I have used all of these or even come close (just because of the sheer number of potential Twittering techniques), but I can list a bunch of these for you, and you can try out a few to see if they make life easier for you!

Aside from internet applications, Twitter can be integrated into your cell phone/smart phone/iPhone/pick-your-type-of-mobile-phone service. A few simple set-up steps and tweet away via text messaging. Otherwise, integration with iPhone apps and smart phones is also possible through phone internet services and apps.  Obviously, gathering a large friend base and network is much easier to do via traditional website usage; so I would reserve networking for Twitter time away from the phone.

Overall, check out the following: 

• TwitterBerry - a mobile client for posting updates via the BlackBerry without using SMS. 
• Twitterific - a very popular application with a sleek interface and minimal real estate. It was created for the Mac, and has extremely high reviews. Free basic version, however there is an upgraded version for $14.95 sans advertisements and with enhancements.
• TweetDeck - TweetDeck is an Adobe Air desktop application that is currently in public beta. It aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information i.e twitter feeds, and breaking it down into more manageable bite sized pieces.
• Slandr - Slandr delivers an enhanced mobile site for Twitter, easier mobile use.
• Brightkite - Brightkite is a location-based social network. In real time you can see where your friends are and what they're up to. Depending on your privacy settings you can also meet others nearby. Twitter can be integrated into this service as well for overall status - where are you and what are you doing?
• Hahlo - another mobile enhanced Twitter app.
• Twirl - twhirl is a social software desktop client, based on the Adobe AIR platform.  Some of twhirl’s features: runs on both Windows (2000/XP/Vista) and Mac OSX, connects to multiple Twitter, laconi.ca, Friendfeed and seesmic accounts, notifications on new messages, shorten long URLs (using snurl, twurl or is.gd), cross-post twitter updates to Pownce and Jaiku, post images to TwitPic, search tweets using Twitter Search and TweetScan, timeline filtering, color schemes, automatically check for new versions, and more (description via their website).
• TinyTwitter - mobile app that prevents getting dinged for updates and double dinged for friend updates continually arriving via SMS. It will work on ANY Java enabled device and ANY Windows Mobile Pocket PC or Smartphone.
• Ping.fm - Ping.fm is a simple service that makes updating your social networks a snap. Use AIM, GTalk, iGoogle, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, WAP, iPhone/iPod Touch, SMS or E-mail and let Ping.fm relay your message to a multitude of social networking sites. Seemingly total social integration here.
• TwitterFeed - Blog/Twitter easy integration; feeds your blog to Twitter.
  

There are, of course, other applications out there. But these are the main ones I encounter the most. Personal testing is required to find out what works best for you. some of these integrate and enhance more than just Twitter, which is a bonus. but again, it really depends on what is easiest and best suited to each users needs.

Twitterific Twittering...

Another great internet marketing tip for everyone (as always, I am at your service!)...

Check out Twitter. This application/service/Web 2.0 platform/social networking/ social media outlet prompts users to answer the question "What are you doing right now?" Simple enough, right? It is!

I personally have been a faithful Twitter user for a while and am completely enamored with it. It has great business applications as far as consistent networking, and is extremely easy to use. It takes next to no effort to tweet (the act of updating your Twitter status, or twittering), and it is easy to follow/be followed (the equivalent of being friends with someone via Twitter) - hence easy to network!

An enormous amount of applications have also been developed that coincide with and enhance the tweeting experience. It's up to the user's preference what they prefer. Twitter can be incorporated into Myspace, Facebook, blogs, RSS feed readers (like FriendFeed), and just about any other Web 2.0 application you can dream about. Twitter also has applications specific just to Twitter members, as well as outside services that offer Twitter enhancements, desktop applications, real time tweeting, etc.

The Twitter membership is also gigantoid (yes, I will make up a new word for it ;-)) - so an endless pool of other members to befriend awaits you! Make sure to build quality connections, and stay active within the tweeting community. Feel free to tweet about changes to your own websites, blogs, social media, etc - but also make sure that is not your singular purpose on twitter or the level of interest in your Twitter profile will quickly diminish (to nothing) amongst other users. Again, it's all about building QUALITY relationships with people and seriously avoiding spam-like behavior.

As far as an Internet marketing tool, Twitter can assist in network and relationship building tremendously. Also, updates on any of your websites/blogs/socialshiz/etc can be back-linked within your tweets, providing an opportunity for traffic to your sites. The most valuable traffic that will wander towards your back-links, however, are those that understand your credibility and reputation for quality connections (providing that is the relationships you insist upon building!!)

Hope this info helps, as always :-)

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Social Bookmarking - What is Actually Useful?

In the crazy Web 2.0 world out there, social bookmarking sites are popping up everywhere. As a relative newcomer to the social bookmarking scene, I am trying to weed through what is truly effective and what isn't.

Social bookmarking is something I have been dabbling in since I began Internet marketing last year. I tried all the traditionally recommended sites -- I even blogged earlier about some of those sites as I began trying them. I submitted all my URLs, sat back, and waited for traffic.

Of course, I quickly came to the realization that this method is not the best method for traffic generation.

After a lot of trial and error, market research, and participation in bookmarking communities, I learned that simply submitting just your own websites as newsworthy material doesn't get you followers, friends or readers. When you ACTIVELY participate in the social community, others only then begin to migrate towards your website selections.

A good way to include your website into the mix of sites that you bookmark is including only updates and additions to your blogs, squidoo lenses, and main website updates. Highlighting new material and new contributions along with other sites significant to you provides a variety of links for people from enjoy and choose from, instead of just articles and blogs relating only to your webpages. The end result of this method is a larger friend/reader base.

When you submit updated material (ie new blog posts) within the same webpage, this directs traffic repeatedly to the same site and same backlinks. In turn, you have increased potential for traffic generation towards your home business pages.

Also, trying out free bookmarking software and websites that assist with multiple submissions simultaneously helps speed up the bookmarking process, and frees up more time for social participation. When you engage yourself in these social communities, you gain credibility and friends.

Some suggestions: Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Newsvine, PlugIM, Del.icio.us
Multiple automated submissions: OnlyWire

(These might have been mentioned by me previously, but they are what I use. I have just learned to use them much more EFFECTIVELY now!)

The biggest key with all of these sites is CONSISTENCY! You have to stick with them, contribute regularly, highlight articles and newspieces OTHER than just your own information, and PARTICIPATE within the community.

Have something important to offer others, rather than just expecting something for yourself!!

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Website submissions

A great tip that is very overlooked to get your website and business out there on the big, bad web -- submit your website directly to search engines.

A lot of marketers think just because they blog about a website or make a myspace page referencing it that they will get a ton of traffic because they are doing other things to point towards their site. Not always the case, my friends. Sometimes backlinks get lost in translation. For example, with myspace, redirecting someone to a link for your webpage is a 2 step process where myspace converts all links to a myspace (msplink) caution before you can click through. Not the most direct method in free traffic flow to your business site.

Submitting your website directly to Google or Yahoo Directory
or Yellow Pages gets your website directly to all of the search engines. Of course, definately keep up the backlinking and link posting as much as possible, because it definately improves search engine ratings. Submitting your business website to multiple search engines puts your direct website into search results, rather than links that eventually get website wanderers there. And there are a TON of directories out there that url submissions are free or very cheap. Think Google, Yellow Pages, MSN, Y!Directories, Submit Express, AddMe, local business directories, etc. Get a good list going of where you want to submit your website to, and dedicate an hour or 2 to submittals. An easy workday thats well worth it!

Just another tip to make everyone's life easier ... food for thought :-)

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