There are dozens of Twitter Marketing Tools available that will search the entire Twitter database and retrieve those Twitter users based on your search query. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, the two main tools I use to find the major Twitter users in my niche markets are Tweet Spinner and Follower Wonk. These Twitter marketing tools let me search for Twitter users based on keywords found int their Tweets or keywords that are contained within their Twitter Bio.

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Knowing this technique is used by millions of Twitter users to find “like-minded” individuals in a specific niche market, then doesn’t it make sense for you to modify YOUR Twitter profile using the prominent keywords in your niche market so that your Twitter profile can be easily found (and followed) based on these keywords?

The answer is: YES.

Here’s a screen shot of the profiles I alternate every 6 hours on Twitter. I do this so that my Twitter Profile is identified with a variety of keywords in my niche markets. I set the Tweet Spinner API to change / rotate my Twitter Bio profile every six hours. In the 6 weeks I’ve been testing this feature of Tweet Spinner, I’ve noticed that I am getting almost 4 times the reciprocal follow rate as I did when I was doing this manually. Give it a try and track how much faster your Twitter follower count grows.

Here’s how it Works

1. Insert the URL you want listed next to the WEB field
2. Insert your Twitter Bio description you want to insert
3. Tell Tweet Spinner how often you want to Rotate Your Twitter Bio
4. That’s it – All Done

Recommended Tools to Accomplish this Task:

• Follower Wonk

• Tweet Spinner

• Market Samurai

• Micro Niche Finder

• YouTube Twitter Marketing

Although the “thud” wasn’t verified until this afternoon, it seems that an online giant fell a couple of days ago.  According to new data from Hitwise, Facebook managed to beat Google in terms of visits between March 7th and March 13th, becoming the most visited website in the U.S. for the week.

The graph visible below makes the changeup pretty clear (blame the sloppy enlarged bit on us, not Hitwise).  What’s more, it doesn’t look like Facebook’s going to relinquish its lead anytime soon.

Heather Dougherty explained, “The market share of visits to Facebook.com increased 185% last week as compared to the same week in 2009, while visits to Google.com increased 9% during the same time frame.”

Then here’s one more interesting fact, courtesy of Dougherty: “Together Facebook.com and Google.com accounted for 14% of all US Internet visits last week.”

This development represents a major win for Facebook.  The ability to represent the social network as the number one site should count for a lot as corporate representatives talk to advertisers and investors, and could result in a direct boost in revenue. A further snowball effect in terms of user interest might occur, too, since most people like to be part of something that’s popular.

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One of the best ways I’ve learned on how to get Twitter followers is by using the Tweet Spinner tool. With Tweet Spinner, you can use one of two different Twitter auto follow system. One is based on keywords and the other is based on a specific Twitter profile.

Tweet Spinner provides a robust set of filters you can set, so you don’t follow spammers or people who don’t contribute value to your social network. If you set your filters properly, your reciprocal rate will be 50% or better, which is better than any other system I’ve used in the past. I choose not follow anyone whose account is less than 90 days old, has less than 500 followers and if their friend/follower ratio is greater than 75%, they won’t be added to my Twitter auto follow system.

Follow Manager

764 New Friends 385 Added 50.3%

Using the Mimic feature, you select a specific Twitter person and decide if you want to follow their followers or the friends or both. In this filter set, this account got a 42.6% reciprocal following, which is still better than any other Twitter auto follow system I’ve used in the past. What’s nice about this tool is that once you set your filters, you’re done. No more clicking the follow icon anymore, a real time saver.

2,525 New Friends 1,076 Added 46.2%

Filters

Under the “Follower Manager” heading, you will find powerful filtering options that you should take advantage of. The first, “show/edit filters,” is broken down into four parts.  The “show/edit follower filters” lets you choose how you’re going to follow users on the service. This is further divided into two parts:

• General Follower Filter: You’ll be following users with Tweet Spinner, and based on other criteria, you can pause the rate that you follow users for a specified amount of time.  You can also set a specific follower-to-following ratio, and if you exceed this point, the system will stop following any additional users.  Further, you can limit the frequency of your following behavior; for instance, you may choose to follow 30 people at any specific time and then cool down for a bit so as not to be too aggressive.
• Specific Follower Filter: Let’s say you’re going to follow some users.  They need to meet specific criteria (of your choosing) before you go ahead and proceed, and this will apply to the various types of following options that Tweet Spinner offers (to be discussed).  These are:

• • The number of friends and followers they have.  If they have too many friends and not many followers, for example, you might not want to follow them.  You can set the follower-to-following ratio range in this section.
  • Number of friends. You can also follow users who have a specific number of friends (e.g. between 40 and 40000).
  • Age of account. You might not want to follow Twitter accounts that are 3 days old.  You might also want to see that they are future upstanding members of the community.  This is the section where that magic is made.
  • Tweet frequency. You might choose to only follow active users (who tweet between 1 and 100 times a month, for example) and not users who are either way too inactive or are too excessive.
  • Tweet activity.  You might want to follow users who have sent tweets recently.  Why follow someone who last tweeted in January of 2008?  You can set a day here.
  • User-filtering/pruning. If you’ve pruned them before, why would you follow them again?  You might not want to, and here’s a way to prevent the system from re-following someone you’ve unfollowed already.
  • Location. If you’re a local business, you’ll go crazy with the ability to follow Twitter users who are based on a geographic location. I believe that location filtering is based on the location listed in the bio, so someone entering their latitude and longitude will not be followed by this system.
  • Tweet content: URLs.  You might want to follow real people who are engaging.  If a high percentage of the user’s Tweets are filled with URLs, you might not have an interest. You can specify the percentage threshold here.
  • Tweet content: @replies: You also might choose not to follow people if they are a broadcast tool. If their tweets contain more than a user-specified percentage of replies, you might opt in.  After all, it shows that they’re involved in their Twitter stream.

Specific Follow Filters

With this filter system, all the criteria you set must be met before a person is followed. This is Twitter marketing automation in motion and how you save yourself many hours of manual marketing tasks by using this powerful software.

How to Find Twitter Leaders?

How to Find Twitter Leaders

When you have a Tweet Spinner account, you also get access to Follower Wonk. This sister tool, let’s you find Twitter people who are leaders in a specific niche. Again, so long as you set your filters right, you won’t get casual or low level accounts in your Twitter circle. I set the friend / follower ratio high to make sure the people I follow have the right set of metrics I look for in a Twitter friend / follower.

If you follow me a Twitter and send me a DM with your niche, I will send you the Top 50 Twitter people in any category you choose and a link for you to get a test drive account of Tweet Spinner so you can see for yourself how well this tool does the job.

Social Media Marketing Plus Web 2.0 on Posterous

Using Posterous, you can post an article using various email tools, I’m using my gmail account for this post.

To add a photo, I think using Outlook would be a better tool. This neat platform will become my new method for posting to my WordPress Blog, my Twitter accounts and content feeds to my Facebook page.

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Conventional wisdom would suggest that getting your weblog ranked on page 1 of Google for a competitive keyword phrase is easier said than done.

In actuality, getting my weblog ranked on page 1 of Google for the competitive keyword phrase Social Media Money Makers has proven to be easier than expected.

For the past few weeks, I’ve been following a new methodology using both free and paid for Internet Marketing Tools that help me to identify high quality backlinks to prove a point: you can in fact get your weblog listed on page 1 of Google for a competitive keyword phrase, so long as you adhere to a few basic SEO principles..

• Identify and acquire high quality Backlinks from Authority sites

• Leave relevant “anchor text coded” comments on the high PR sites

• Optimize your weblog articles using solid on page SEO methodologies

• Don’t eat the elephant in one bite – drip feed/link to these high PR site

Right before the ball dropped in Times Square to close the decade, I began to deploy my new model. As a matter of fact, I uploaded my last YouTube Video of 2009 at midnight (EST) showing how a single well placed anchor text comment on an Authority site (Mashable) bumped my Alexa Score by over 10,000 in less than 30 minutes.

On December 31, 2009 my Alexa Score was 251 and change. Today (January 12th) my Alexa Score is 219 and change and my traffic has also seen a spike in my visitor count. I know my writing skills haven’t improved dramatically in these past 2 weeks.

I make sure to optimize my blog articles with properly coded H1 tags using All-in-One SEO-Pack. I visit Google keyword tool for search counts and download the TEXT file into Market Samurai and Micro Niche Finder to make sure the keywords I want to get ranked on have the right mix in my 1st and past paragraphs and meet the 2-3% mix, spread through out the entire blog article. I have my special word press plug-in pushing each article to my social networks, using the ShareThis widget and I make sure to track the key metrics to see if this is working as planned. So far – so good.

I recently bought an eBook from a smart guy via the Warrior Forum on how to increase my exposure and generate even more organic | free traffic using his link wheel model. Phase 2 of this ongoing case study will entail adding links to:

• Hub Page

• Squidoo Lens

• eZine @rticle

• YouTube Video

adding to my existing inventory of high quality authority backlink sites in social media marketing so I can compete in the competitive social media marketing space.

I’m a member of a few neat Ning Social Networks. I plan to engage other like-minded members with a survey / contest type combination. My objective will be to measure the number of  Facebook Friends visit me Blog vs. my Peers on the various Ning Networks I’m a member of.

As an incentive to provide me input and feedback on my case study, I’ll be offering:

• Google Wave Invitation
• 30 Quality Backlinks (PR 5-6-7)
  
• 50% discount on my new e-Book
• The Grand Prize (all of the above)

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What is Google Wave?

Google Wave is a web app that lets you communicate and collaborate with others.

Google Wave Features Let’s You

• have conversations
• share photos and files
• work with others on documents
• chat in real time
• organize your information
• post to blogs

What information is collected when you use Google Wave?

When you use Google Wave, Google collects information about:

• your account activity
• your interaction with user interface elements and links
• your IP address and other log information.

Will Waves contain Advertisements?

Google has no plans to include advertisements, but they might consider doing so in the future.  If they do, they won’t share your personal information with an advertiser without your consent, and they will update this privacy FAQ with the change.

How do you get a Google Wave account?

If you want to beta test Google Wave, you’ll need an invitation. If you’re interested, fill in the form below and I’ll send you an invitation.Tell us why you want to use gWave and how our Group would benefit by having you participate? You’ll need a Google email address to get your gWave Invite. Be sure to include gWave Invite in the Subject Line. I’d suggest you click the Twitter widget to the right and add your Avitar to our site. —–>

[Note] Google Wave is by Invitation only. In takes a day or so before your “Nominated” invitation is processed and approved by the Google (or) you can Buy an Invitation right now for only $5.00. No fuss, no muss.

What exactly does Social Bookmarking do for me?

Social bookmarking is an extremely effective technique for getting new sites indexed faster by Google. Not only that but the links from social bookmarking sites can generate a nice increase in your sites rankings as well. To top it all off social bookmarking can be extremely effective at raising your sites natural traffic volumes.

Directory Submission

Directory Submissions is a technique that has been around for quite some time. Directory Submissions is a great way to build a large volume of back links back to your site. A very large portion to SEO is how many back links you have pointing to your site. Traffic-Bug is one of the very few software’s if not the only one that completely automates Directory Submissions. There are other software’s out there that can do directory submissions but not like Traffic-Bug. With Traffic-Bug you can simply set and forget and it will go on and on building you backlinks and even solving the CAPTCHA for you!

RSS Distribution

RSS distribution. This is another greatly powerful method to raising your sites rankings and helping get a site indexed as well as slightly improving natural traffic. RSS aggregators take your RSS URL and display them on their sites. Not only will this allow a chance for real visitors to follow your link back to your site but it provides link juice and can help with rankings.

Search Engine Submissions

Search Engine Submissions. There are hundreds of search engines on the web and Traffic-Bug ensures that you will be listed on all of them. Currently the software already does 139 Search Engine submissions. Even if some search engines aren’t that popular it could still provide you some traffic you might not have received otherwise .

Traffic-Bug has a nice balance of short term and long term benefits. Social Bookmarking and RSS distribution can greatly help a sites ranking in the short term while Search Engine Submission and Directory Submission can begin to help your site in the long term.

Traffic-Bug completely automates Social Bookmarking, Directory Submissions, Search Engine Submissions and RSS distribution.

Twitter Expands Lists Beta Testing | A Great New Feature

I recently got an invite from Twitter to paticipate in the “beta” version. The first list I created will be to engage my Twitter followers involved in “Video Article Marketing“. Mostly because I have recently started using a nifty tool that converts my text article into video articles with a few mouse clicks.

I named my first Twitter List: @FerreeMoney/video-article-marketing which translates into the long URL as http://twitter.com/FerreeMoney/video-article-marketing. It’s early in the game on how this new feature will enhance the user experience on Twitter, but my initial impression is that Twitter Lists will go a long way to help me “filter” the massive amount of junk (aka) “buy my stuff” Tweets that I tolerate in order to retrieve quality and relevant content my the Twitter feeds I take the time to read.

If you have received in invitation from Twitter to participate in their early beta testing of this new feature, please leave a comment so we can compare notes on how to leverage this evolving feature set. (or) you can ping me directly by using this form.