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Twitter Follow Limits #Fail

admin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:23:47 +0000

I reached Twitter’s 2,000 person follow limit today. Twitter Follow Limits Twitter explains their Follow limits are different for every user and after reaching 2000 follows correspond to follow / follower ratios. From Twitter: “… we have put limits on how aggressively users can follow others.” I Can't Follow People Limits Unlike the vast majority of high volume Twitter spammers… umm… users, I don’t follow people mindlessly nor do I follow people expecting them to follow me back. I don’t use autofollow bots nor do I mine Tweets and Twitter accounts to auto follow. I simply follow Twitter accounts of people who appear to approach the web and Twitter from a slightly different perspective than I do. This propensity for dissimilarity is near infinite and obviously wasn’t considered when Twitter calculated its rules and ratios for how many Twitter accounts a legitimate Twitter account can follow. If dissimilarity was considered, it was deemed spammy because Twitter has attracted more high volume spammers than legitimate high volume users.

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Twitter, Coupons And Gift Certificates

cgseo — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:25:43 +0000

I don’t know how successful distribution and redemption of coupons / gift certificates will become on Twitter but the following is an example of a Tweet for a gift certificate, it’s landing and then purchase pages. Twitter Coupons The Tweet’s “landing page” – Tweet Landing Page The Twitter gift certificate redemption page: Tweeted Gift Certificate The gift certificate’s headline and promise are disingenuous because the $10 gift certificate’s $4 purchase price is only valid when used toward a minimum food purchase of $20.00. Bait and switch gift certificating…

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How to Back up Your Social Media Accounts

cgseo — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:46:10 +0000

If you are like me, you have all your major working materials stored online: I organize useful links with Google bookmarks and Delicious, store email and IM conversation with Gmail, have most of my important (collaboration) docs at Google Docs, have multiple resource collections on WordPress and Blogger, etc. Backing up this massive amount if highly important information is actually a smart idea because the services are not owned by me, hosted by God knows who and thus having a local copy and updating it regularly would be wise. Backupify is a nice (free until January 31) web-based tool that allows to download content from a number of popular online services including: Gmail Twitter Google Docs Flickr Facebook Basecamp WordPress Delicious Photobucket Blogger FriendFeed Here’s how it works: after signing up you will be offered the list of social media sites “to manage”: Here are a few examples : Allow the tool to access your Twitter account by Twitter auth; Login to Delicious using your login information; Connect to Flickr account by Flickr auth; Connect to Photobucket account by Photobucket auth, etc When you are done adding your social media accounts, set up the back-up frequency (daily or weekly) and delivery options: Email me every time a backup is performed Email me a once daily digest of all backup activity Email me a once weekly digest of all backup activity Do not notify me via email of any backups You can also access the archives of your backups at Backupify from any computer. The only possible excuse for not trying the tool out is the privacy concerns, here’s an extract from the service privacy policy (remember: your privacy is up to you): What information is collected about me? We only collect data you provide us at sign-up. We do not ask for any other personal information. We do not collect data without your knowledge. How do you use collected information? We don’t use it at all. The only thing we collect and monitor is general patterns of storage and service usage so that we can make sure our architecture is optimized for speed and scalability. What security measures do you use to protect my privacy? Any information we have about you is stored with strong encryption. The tool was reviewed under SEJ policy . Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . How to Back up Your Social Media

How to Quickly Check Tweets Related to Any Web Page

admin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:43:36 +0000

The idea of giving the opportunity to leave off-site comments to any page has been hot for a long time: that’s how many social bookmarking / sharing sites work (like StumbleUpon where people “review” and tag pages within the system), that’s what Google Sidewiki concept is based on and that’s how Tweeting any page works… Why it has been popular is quite clear: people are saved from the trouble to log in or filling the comment form and are given the opportunity to use their favorite web environment and instantly share their comments with their online friends. The question is how we, bloggers and Internet marketers, can keep track of those comments and utilize that off-site conversations around our web pages. This post looks at one part of the question: possible ways to keep track of Twitter conversations related to any web page : Type Instant notifications Additional tracking tools Kutano Browser addon Yes No BackTweets Browser bookmarklet No RSS feed, email alerts AddATweet Browser addon Yes No Kutano Kutano works as a browser addons (supported browsers: FireFox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome) that hides behind a handy sidebar and notifies you of recent Tweets around any page you are landing on. In short, it works as follows: Install the addon (and restart your browser). Kutano sidebar should appear; Navigate to any web page and notice a number that appears right on the sidebar (when it is closed). This number indicates how many Tweets have been found for the current page): Click on it and see the actual Tweets in the opened sidebar: Best features: Instantly see Twitter comments on any page you are currently viewing (the sidebar is open); See Tweets to the page or to the site; See “Discussions” – i.e. recent web updates that do not link to the page directly but use a related hashtag or keyword (useful for tools, brand names, etc): BackTweets BackTweets is a popular tool that tracks and aggregates tweets linking to a particular page. It supports a number of URL-shorteners which makes the tool one of the most complete. It can be added to your browser with help of a bookmarklet which allows to quickly find Tweets linking to the current page. Best features: Create an email alert for new Tweets linking to any page; Grab an RSS feed to follow Tweets commenting on any page. AddATweet AddATweet is more about commenting using your Twitter identity than aggregating all Twitter buzz around one specific page – that is you won’t see all the Tweets related to any specific page but you will be able to track comments left using the tool. Best features: Instantly see if the page has comments by the color of the addon button; Easily leave your own comments using the tool and your Twitter identity. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . How to Quickly Check Tweets Related to Any Web

Twitter And The New York Times

admin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:06:13 +0000

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Norad Santa Tracker On Twitter

admin — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:24:10 +0000

Track Santa’s progress this Christmas Eve with NoradSanta and his Twitter account @noradsanta Norad Santa Twitter Or follow Santa’s progress @ NoradSanta.com Norad Santa

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Interactive Buttons with Hit Counters – Which Ones Do You Use?

admin — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:32:46 +0000

There have appeared a few really cool interactive buttons recently that visualize how popular the story is. The best thing about them is that they really encourage the visitor to share and promote the page and therefore I highly recommend you to install a few of them. The question is which one …Tweetmeme seems to be the most popular one recently, though I see blogs invite readers to also share on Facebook, Digg, etc. So my question is, which one worked the best for you in terms of traffic and overall response? ( of course I realize this also largely depends on the niche and blog type, so I am not setting up a poll and asking you to share your experience in the comments instead ). Here are the 4 more or less general ones (those that seem to work for any niche / blog): 1.

WeFollow Google Adwords Rank

cgseo — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:04:08 +0000

I was surprised to learn my Twitter account profile ranks 12th most influential in the WeFollow Twitter directory for Adwords. WeFollow Adwords Particulary when their are many other Adwords labeled Twitter accounts who have significantly more followers than me. WeFollow’s Influence ranking must not be based on pure quantitty of followers because there are also several accounts with fewer followers than mine. I guess if I want to move up their list I had better Tweet more about Google Adwords.

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Twitter Success: You Gotta Show Up

admin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:15:38 +0000

Twitter is all the rage, but you don’t need me to tell you that. So, yes, this is another Twitter article. But hang in there, it’s a good one! Lately I’m hearing mixed reviews about the success companies are having with Twitter. After my own successes with Twitter, I was a little surprised, so I decided to dig a little deeper to try to find out why some are having success and others aren’t. Ready for what I found? I found that the people that are really participating are getting the benefit and those that aren’t don’t see much benefit! Wow! Imagine that. LOL OK, so there is no surprise there, but it’s still interesting. It tells me there are a lot of people out there that understand Twitter is important but they don’t know why. I suspect a lot of people think just being there is enough – just having a presence is all they need. I’m seeing great Twitter background pages and great bios and a handful of interesting tweets and then it stops there. Just being on Twitter isn’t enough. You have to participate. Join the conversation. Create conversation. It’s like getting all dressed up and heading to a party and then sitting in the corner by yourself not talking to anyone all night. While you may start the evening like that, just sitting back scoping things out – eventually, if you want to have a good time, you have to join the party. So c’mon in and join the Twitter party. J I know we are all busy, I know growing a business online has gotten harder. I often hear “you mean I have to do SEO, be on Facebook, write and syndicate articles, Blog regularly AND tweet???” My response is no you don’t have to. If you aren’t looking to aggressively grow your business and use all the tools available to you, then you can pick and choose what you want to do. Any of those strategies will work for you on their own, but the key is when combined they work so well together and you get a much bigger impact. It’s building on top of your efforts rather than a single pronged approach. I know it’s a lot of work. It’s also new. We’ve never marketed like this before. It’s confusing for beginners. So, here is a quick overview of some of the tips that my clients have found most helpful. Getting Started: Understand Your

How to Learn Who Favorites Your Tweets & Why

admin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:33:10 +0000

It is an amazing discovery when you’ve been using a site for more than a year and then come across some new, unexpectedly genius way to take advantage of it. This happened with Twitter to me: I found a new awesome way to make the most of its feature called “Favorites” (do you use it?). It never occurred to me that knowing who favorites my Tweets and which of my Tweets get favorited, I get an opportunity to do the following: Find new partners and targeted contacts : if a person adds something to favorites, he is likely to be interested in the topic . If he added your Tweet to favorites, he is most likely to know you. Thus, all you need to do is (after some research) to contact him and discuss how you can partner to help each other. Analyze your own Tweets : by seeing which of your Tweets get favorited, you can learn more about your followers’ interests and preferences. And this means more post ideas , more targeted Tweets, etc. Note: of course, there are more factors to come into play. For example, a Tweet on Tuesday morning is more likely to get noticed and hence added to favorites than a Tweet posted on Sunday when most of your contacts are offline. Therefore, you should also do some research before arriving at any conclusions: track some trends, learn more about your contacts, etc. There are two awesome tools that allow you to see which of your Tweets are added to favorites by your followers ( you didn’t expect me to share the tip without giving some more actionable advice, did you? ). 1. FavStar