Friday, 23 May 2008

Which Twitter Personality Type Are You?

This study is based on real life twitter profile observations.

the newbie’ – You’ve just joined. You have no friends. Move onto ‘social climber’ mode. But if you’re popular already on facebook, you can afford to sit back, relax. Become ‘the arrogant one’ – your days as a newbie are numbered.

the social climber’ – Tons of following, not so many followers. You’re hoping that some twitwhores will connect back to you. Keep going – you’ll make it as a ‘web celebrity’ some day!

the arrogant one’ – Let’s face it – you are arrogant. Your ratio of followers to following is high but your absolute number of followers + followings are low to medium. You may also be classified as ‘lazy’. I would at this point throw some examples in but I don’t want to offend anyone @Dwane.

the lazy one’ – [ironic lack of description].

the bore’ – You’re naturally accumulating people that you are following but nobody wants to follow you. I’m sorry, you will just have to try harder…

the femme fatale’ – So you’re female, hot and you‘ve got this strange following of geeks. Lots of followers, less following. Exploit this niche while it lasts baby.

the blogger’ – Tons of followers and you seem to be following quite a few as well. You are balanced and doing well. You add real value to the internet and adsense – thanks for that.

the entrepreneur’ - Whatever your intentions, twitter may help your startup and business opportunities. Use it and love it.

the web celebrity’ – Well done, you’ve made it to the higher echelons of net society. You have the highest levels of followers and you tend to follow lots of other people to help you maintain that position. Now its time to sell your twitter profile on ebay and use it for advertising products on each tweet.

Thursday, 22 May 2008

Website Promotion Tips 1

This post covers using articles and the creation of a blog as a method you can employ to generate traffic to your site. In the future posts I will cover other methods like press releases, forums, twitter etc.

Create a Blog
  1. Create a blog.
  2. Customise your blog.
  3. Write some good content on your blog.
  4. Enter your blog into RSS feed directories.
  5. You could use a program to do the submissions (I’m sure there is a web based free submission out there – please comment).
  6. Ping your blog on http://www.pingomatic.com/ or set your wordpress to auto ping. Some ping lists for you to add:
  7. Track your blog using Google Analytics and Feedburner
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com/
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com/
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/
http://www.newsisfree.com/

Use Articles

Articles are differentiated from press releases in that they are meant to be more permanent resources unlike a press release which is more topical and less relevant as time moves forward. You can generate a constant stream of traffic from articles using the following method:
  1. Write keyword optimised articles with high quality content.
  2. Write it to be optimised by search engines for good rankings.
  3. Write it to be very readable and interesting for others to read.
  4. Use carefully selected keywords generated from Google Adwords keyword generator.
  5. Make sure your link is inside the resource box and plugged inside the article.
  6. You could hire a ghostwriter.
  7. Now submit your articles.
  8. Alternatively outsource the submission process.