Twitter

It all started with a blog post, then a challenge and then a few friends joined in.  Yet in February, the shortest month of the year, the number of #BeOriginal tweets DOUBLED to a total of over 6,000 shared and re-tweeted.  Here are some of the highlights on leadership - a key componentof ANY business – Enjoy!
 

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Now that Twitter and Facebook fan pages are included in Google search results, I thought I would share with you a few SEO tips to get more SEO push out of your twitter and facebook pages.

These tips apply to both twitter and facebook fan pages and they are simple to do.. and we all like simple..right?  lol

Your name should include one of your keywords, or at least fit your niche. Ex: if you sell dog toys, then choose a name that fits that.

You can also add a keyword to your display name too. I don’t do this because it makes it less personal, but if SEO juice is what you want then keyword your name too.

With you url in your profile, make sure to use your actual url not a shortened one.  Also remove the “www” since Google only takes your first 20 characters.

Your profile is a great place to put your keywords, but again don’t go over board since you want to personalize your profile as much as you can, and you only have 160 char. Keywords will help with search also on twitter makes it easier for people to search and find you.

This is cool, you can SEO your profile picture! You can’t can rename the photo before you upload it that way when it shows up in the URL it will have the keywords that you named. Make sure to leave NO spaces.

I been hearing a lot about twitter becoming more and more noisy with sponsored tweets, or advertising tweets.

I can see both sides of this argument and I agree with both sides.. I think..lol

Basically a sponsored tweet is a tweet about a product or service that you are paid to tweet to your followers.

I think this is a great way to advertise real time and reach your target audience. I think the problem most people have is more with the frequency people will post these type of tweets.

If you tweet out helpful, informative, and funny tweets that people like, then a sponsored tweet here and there wont piss people off to much.

Now if you are tweeting 5-10 tweets a day and 4 are sponsored, then yes people will get pissed off and unfollow you.

I send sponsored tweets out at one per day.  It is a nice way to make a little extra money on the side just by tweeting.

Right now there are 3 main sites that you can sign up with that offer twitter advertising.

SponsoredTweets.com

Sponsored Tweets is a new Twitter advertising platform that connects advertisers with tweeters. Advertisers can create sponsored conversations on Twitter. Tweeters can earn money for spreading the word.

All you need is a Twitter account to get started. Sponsored Tweets is a white listed Twitter application and uses your Twitter credentials to create an account.