Do you remember the time when  Blog and Pings helped skyrocket a weblog to
success? That was 2004 to 2007. Now, with the abuse of that method, blogging
and pinging has lost its power. Try using it. You’ll notice that it barely
affects your PR or SERPs at it used to.

Where one SEO technique has faded away, a new method of improving engine
visibility has arisen. And that’s through the help of massive web 2.0 site,
Twitter.

With twitter, you can easily drive traffic to your site. The social
networking site lets it become so easy to get the word out so you can enjoy
effortless viral marketing. The rise of twitter led to the rise of dozens of
twitter apps. Each one offers features that claim to help online marketers
achieve their goals. Of the hundreds of twitter apps, I love only two. Once
you try them, so will YOU.

TweetSuite- King of WordPress Tweet Plugins

Tweetsuite is a wordpress twitter plugin that does the work of a handful of
twitter plugins. In a nutshell, it accomplishes the following

* Server-side (no-JS or remote calls) TweetBacks
* ReTweet-This buttons for each TweetBack
* A digg-like Tweet-This Button
* Automatic Tweeting of new posts
* A Most-Tweeted Widget
* A Recently-Tweeted Widget
* A My-Last-Tweets Widget
* A My-Favorited-Tweets Widget

You’ll discover that the integration of this plugin lets you keep n eye out
on the twitter landscape and how it pertains  to your blog. It affords your
users the capability to spread the good word on your gosepel and keep tabs on

related posts. Once you install it, I doubt you’d ever take it off. It’s so
comprehensive that it ranks up there with the All In One SEO Pack as a must-
use wordpress tool.

Twitter Friend Adder

The Twitter Friend Adder, on the other hand is a free application and not a
plugin. It runs of XP and Vista. The objective of the Twitter Friend Adder is
to amass a great deal of followers to your twitter account. The steps it
takes are simple

1. Input your login details
2. Input your keyword. The program will scan twitter for people matching
that keyword. So if you put in ‘football’, it looks for people who tweeted
recently about football or have the word in their profile or nick.
3. Alternatively, you can input a persons twitter handle. This way, the
software app will hunt for all the twitter friends of the target
4. Set the program to add 100 friends daily. More than that and you may
end up finding your account vaporized.
5. Set the program to pause 2 seconds in between adding. This mitigates
screening filters.

Press GO! That’s  when the magic begins. Twitter Friend Adder logs in, scans
for targets then FOLLOWS the matching targets. By reciprocity, people you
follow, may follow you back and et voila! They become your followers.

I’ve experimente with one twitter account and its grown from zero to three
hundred in three days. Those are potential eyeballs for ads!

Oh- one caveat- some people the program adds may not be people. They’re bots.
Zombies. Twitter marketing androids. Meaning that they may be pure marketing
vehicles for other SEO and SEM specialists as well. If you find that some
people you added are mere robots, you can unfollow them. They’re useless to
your camplaigns because they’ll probably ignore your tweets. Worse, they may
even bombard you with advertising tweets!

This program is so good and so handy that I’ve notice people on eBay and
DigitalPoint selling clones of the program. The lowest priced one was $19,
and the priciest was $97. They promise the moon and stars, vowing that a
tidal wave of traffic will come in. Not true. While you can use the Twitter
Friend Adder to get the word out, abuse of it by means of blasting nothing
but ads will get people annoyed. You’ll be UNFOLLOWED.

My advice? Send marketing spiels once a week. The rest of the week, send em
the good stuff. Like what you ate for dinner.

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