If you are aware of Twitter you may think is is a great opportunity but how can you get off the ground.  This is the usual problem in internet marketing,  if you are famous you can continue to be famous.  If you are starting out you will find it hard to get off the bottom of the pile.

If you have a look at this post called Twitter Smarter with Greasemonkey you can read how you can remove all the pain and effort by using a Greasemonkey script that they have developed to automate your Twitter posting.

The author states that ”

After you’ve followed a bunch of people, just sit back and watch the follow backs roll in. We’ve found that about 12% of the people with an interest in SEM have an automatic follow back set up. More will follow you as the day goes on. Give it a few days, then go to your followers page and drop the ones that aren’t mutual. If they’re not in to you, then it’s time to just move on.

I started the week with around 50 followers.  After a few days of testing this script and really not working very hard at it I’m coming up on 500 followers. Sure, I’m no rock star, but having a conversation with 500 people that share my interests is, well, interesting!  ”

I haven’t tried this yet but it looks well worth a shot.

I often read many comments concerning issues in a site being included within the Technorati service.

Technorati is good and an excellent source of short term visitors for your main keywords before your entries are indexed by the large search engines. An issue with it is the lack of feedback when sites tags are not included within the Technorati search. This can become painful when you blog a topical entry and then wait and wait and wait for Technorati to pick it up.

One major reason for the posts to be ignored by Technorati Read the rest of this entry »

When was the last time you looked at your blog feed in a feed aggregator and viewed your site in the same way that your readers do. To ensure you deliver a good customer experience this should be a regular practice, it can also highlight issues with your site that you may not have noticed.

If your feeds are set to full text Read the rest of this entry »

I wrote recently on how to develop your own blog to use for the benefit of your core website. The blog can assist in early Google indexing and link through to your web pages.

I was careful to mention that you should create informative articles on your blog, not merely generate worthless pages. This practice is a form of spam and over time will devalue blogs as a source of informative content, possibly leading to their exclusion from certain search engines or search results.

Whilst there is a positive business use to a blog there are also Read the rest of this entry »

Blogs are growing a a phenominal rate and still evolving.

The nature of blogs is to encourage and develop a sense of community with cross linking encouraged. Comments help to enhance posts and develop the subjects under discussion.

In addition to this the interactive nature of blogs, through comments, offers attractions for corporates. Allowing key employees to develop blogs and present a more human persona rather than the more traditional image portrayed through a more formal web site.

Whilst there are attractions there are also barriers, Read the rest of this entry »