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You Are Offending People On Twitter, But Who?
Are you offending people on Twitter without even knowing it? The truth is every time you post a new tweet to Twitter you are potentially encouraging someone to stop following you. By default, Twitter doesn’t tell you when someone kicks you to the curb. So there’s no way to know if something you said made people drop you from their radar. Fortunately Qwitter provides a simple solution that... More...
Is Alexa Becoming Completely Worthless
I read an interesting article today by Daniel Scocco at Daily Blog Tips where he makes the case that Alexa is Becoming Completely Worthless. I’ve never been a big fan of Alexa rankings. The numbers they report have always seemed off to me and I really don’t see Alexa rankings as much more than an opportunity to chest thump on digital graph paper. But if you’re unsure what to believe... More...
Using Twubble To Find Twitter Friends
So, who are you following on Twitter? I mean really following? Do you have a list only of people you know or is it mixed between real personal contacts and complete strangers? My guess is you’re like most people using Twitter and you have a mixed list. Maybe your following Darren Rowse and Yaro Starak. Maybe your following me. It’s hard not to have one or two curiosity follows. So, the... More...
Who Are The Top 100 People On Twitter
I’m on the road to Austin Texas today to visit the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Conservatory so this Microtween will be really short. Last time you learned that you can get a variety of Twitter stats by individual from TweetStats.com. Today, let’s find out who the top followed people are on Twitter so we can begin to explore trends and look for people we might be interested in following.... More...
Using TwitterStats To Spot Social Networking Trends
Yesterday you and I talked about using TwitterScan to perform keyword research on Twitter conversations. We discovered that we can explore what other people are talking about by searching for keywords and we can get an idea of what people are saying about a particular topic. Now let’s talk about TweetStats, another Twitter research tool that helps us dig even further into the stream of on-going... More...
What Do You Twitter About
UPDATE: Either I was smoking crack when I wrote this or these guys have changed their domain. Since I’m too cheap to afford a nasty habit like that it must be the other so, here is the link to TweetScan that works. I’ll go ahead and update the links in the post from twitterscan.com (which does show a listing in the WayBack Machines archives) to tweetscan.com. Today’s Microtween is... More...
Blog Promotion Using The BlogCatalog Social Dashboard
What would happen if your newest post was Dugg and all your friends at BlogCatalog knew about it? And then what would happen if they Dugg it too, letting all of their friends know it. That would be pretty powerful, right? That was the first few lines of an email that was sent out by the BlogCatalog Team at 3:30 this morning where they announced they will be adding a social dashboard to the BlogCatalog... More...
Is Your Internet Business Mobile Ready?
Internet Marketing is an ever changing landscape of technology and customer behaviors. Though it can be challenging to successfully match customer behavior with the use of technology, there are a ton of Internet Marketers who will gladly teach you what you need to know to establish an online business. But what will that business look like tomorrow? In a recent article on MarketingVox article entitled,... More...
Using Three Free Keyword Search Tools To Research Keywords
In the last post we watched a video about keyword and keyword phrase research. We saw the combined use of WordTracker and Google Trends to come up with a method to find high search volume, low competition keywords and keyword phrases. In this next video we see the concept taken a step further with the use of the regular Google search. Overall this quick hit method is a low cost way to dig into keyword... More...
How To Determine Keyword Traffic Potential
keyword research is an extremely important part of optimizing blogs and understanding what words or phrases to use in blog posts or articles. Today’s post is a quick hit on combining WordTracker’s Keyword Tool and Google Trends to come up with a reasonable estimation for potential keyword search traffic. Here is a video from the guys over at the Thirty Day Challenge that highlights some... More...
Learn To Use Google Trending For Your Advertising and Marketing Efforts
Understanding developing trends can be an important aspect of creating marketing campaigns to promote your product or service. Before Google was born, most trending information was collected offline by the government or private survey companies. This data, if it was publicly available, was either expensive to get or out of date by several years. Now, however, there is a new way to get trending data,... More...
