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SEO Considerations – Google Buzz vs Twitter

Google Buzz has generated a ton of interest, “is it better than Twitter? Frienfeed? Should Facebook be scared?”  The debates will continue.  One thing I didn’t see too much chatter about was the SEO impact of either service.  I decided to use one of the Firefox SEO Plugins to do a quick analysis, and captured [...]

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LinkedIn & Twitter Partner – News From Around The Web

LinkedIn today announced their partnership with Twitter on their blog.  When it comes to LinkedIn Marketing this may seem like a subtle move, but it could be an indicator of things to come.  Below is a video about the partnership, and what folks around the web are saying about this marriage.  What say you?  So [...]

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Twitter Says Advertising Not A Top Priority

Today Reuters interview reveals that Twitter is perhaps no closer to monetizing the site with Ads than they were 6 months ago.  In fact, things like search, retweets, geo targeting are topping the list.  I think this is great news for online marketers, and represents a great opportunity to get started with Twitter advertising for [...]

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Free Services Can Be Costly for Online Businesses

On the heels of Twitter going down last week, this week the news is of a popular free service not going down, but closing it’s doors altogether.  Popular with many online marketers who use social media sites like Twitter, tr.im URL shortening announced it is closing it’s doors.  And there’s bigger news, yesterday Facebook Acquired [...]

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Why I Stopped Using Hummingbird Twitter Automation Software

Hummingbird software which helps automate Twitter follower and following activities, was released just a few short months ago and has been a great tool for marketers who want to build targeted following on Twitter.  However,  the guys at Mesiab Labs have had some major issues of late (changes at Twitter), making their product very frustrating [...]

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Ultimate Twitter List for Online Marketers

Twitter has grown tremendously.  I have found it to be a great source of information, and continue to discover new ways to using Twitter for marketing purposes.  I decided to put a list together of suggested people to follow based on my experience, and broken out by category.  Let me tell you, this wasn’t easy.  [...]

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Advertising on Your Twitter Profile – Speak Up

Online marketers are always looking for ways to extend their reach, and where there is an audience there is often advertising.  Twitter’s audience is growing, fast, and therefore presents a unique opportunity for advertising.  There are some emerging players.  Interested in your thoughts, would you want to make money by posting tweets advertising other peoples [...]

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Top 10 (or more) Twitter Blunders

Let’s face it, social media has created a colliding set of worlds as people approach it with their own set of curiosities and motives.  In this post I’ll shaer a few of the common (and humorous) things I’ve observed on Twitter classified as ‘blunders’.  More importantly, I invite you to share your ‘blunder’ observations as [...]

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3 Rules of Using Twitter for Business

A lot has been made of Twitter as its popularity grows (significantly, I might add), so have the reasons for having a solid Twitter marketing strategy.  In this post you’ll learn the three rules every online and small business entrepreneur should know when using Twitter for business, and why.  Without these in place, your experience [...]

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One More Reason Your Business Should Be On Twitter

After attending my first tweetup (that’s twitter speak for meeting other Twitter users in person) last week, as a part of Twestival (how can anyone compete with that type of branding, twantastic! :-), it prompted me to do some updated research about using Twitter for business. In this post I’ll share a pretty compelling stat [...]

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