Your Circle of Influence
Twitter can be viewed as a series of circles of influence. When someone elects to follow me, they become a member of my circle of influence–they get a copy of my updates or tweets. When someone follows them they have their own circle of influence who get their tweets. And so on and so forth. Normally, these circles are not interconnected. Following only goes one way although many people follow you if you follow them (I do this as a matter of policy–I reward people for following me by following them).
Enter the Retweet aka RT
Retweets are tweets made by a person you are following that you then tweet and send to your followers. The practical effect of retweeting is that it a) gives you content to send to your followers and b) it increases the size of the audience of the person you’re retweeting. Retweeting is one of the major marketing benefits of Twitter. It has the potential of giving you access, based on the quality of your content/tweet, to THOUSANDS of people.
The Retweet Problem
Unfortunately, Retweeting is not automatic. The people in your circle of influence sporadically and casually retweet only items they find of interest. The rate of retweet cannot organically be gauged or controlled.
The ReTweet.It Solution
Retweet.It is a retweet exchange service. It is free. It works this way: For every retweet you make of other retweet.it members’ tweets, you get a credit. You can use your credits to post your tweets to their system. Other members then retweet you for credits. There is some quality control in this process because the self-interest of the Retweet members prevents them from blindly retweeting spam–this erodes their own circle of interest’s loyalty. So they tend to gravitate to retweeting quality content. Notice that the RT requests for real content gets RT’ed more than spamtastic requests?
Some ReTweet.It Tips
Retweet only quality content. While you’re getting points to do this, you’re also tweeting to your base of followers. Don’t piss them off by retweeting garbage. Quality content builds your twitter base and builds your credibility in the Twittersphere.
Post only quality content. We ran tests on our tweets on Retweet.It and found that high quality articles such as Google Trends Scam and Critiques of Online Traffic Methods get more traffic than other tweets. If you need quality viral content, visit this Website Copywriting service
Measure Measure Measure. Check your stats and see which types of tweets get the most RT traction. Focus on those topics/tweet types and repeat the process.
Happy Retweeting!
One of the older and still effective methods used in building backlinks to a central site is to build a network of sites hosted off free sites and free blog networks. The effectiveness of this method revolves around the following:
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Assorted list of useful free tools for webmasters
SEO-RELATED TOOLS
Bulk Page Rank Detection Tool
Enter your list of domains and this tool will show their pageranks. Timesaving tool for backlink building tasks.
Bulk Page Rank and URL stats Tool
This tool not only shows page rank information but Alexa and other useful information regarding the links you list.
Live Keyword Density Checker
Paste in your unpublished text and see the keyword density. For unpublished site text.
Published Site Text Keyword Density Checker
Enter the URL of your published page and this tool will check keyword density.
Pingler Power Ping Tool
Pingler is great because it allows you to customize your ping list. NOTE: First few tries might not work, so keep trying. The script is somewhat buggy.
Randomized Comments Generator
This is a testimonials generator but it can be used for blog comments. Remember to change the words around though or your comment might end up in Akismet’s spam filter. Can also be used for forums.
How to get around Digg’s Digg Bar
Diggbar screws up content publishers because it increases the chance that Digg will rank higher for publishers’ content than the publishers themselves. Here’s how to get around the diggbar–use a framebuster.
Here’s one posted at wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framekiller
SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING TOOLS
Twitter Backup Utility
It copies the following:
Followers
Friends
Favorites
Your Tweets
Direct Messages
Everything
Twitter Follower Counter
Counts your twitter followers. It is not in realtime. Uses a batch capture method.
Multiple Social Media Profile Organizer
Manage your dozens of Social Media profiles from one nifty tool.
PHOTOSHOP TUTORIALS
Photo shop tutorials:
How to create different types of elemental Effects
Step by step tutorial on creating elemental effects
400+ Free high quality water color brushes for PS
Huge collection of free high quality water color brushes and configurations for PhotoShop
Tutorials on Creating Water Effects for Photoshop
Huge collection of step by step tutorials for PS Water Effects
FIREFOX PRODUCTIVITY
How to make any Firefox add-on compatible with all versions: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-make-any-firefox-add-on-compatible-with-all-versions/
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