Twitter, Twitter, Twitter… it’s been quite a while since a day has gone by without hearing something about Twitter. If you don’t twitter, you just aren’t up to snuff. At least that’s what many people seem to believe, and they aren’t afraid to put in your face day after day. I admit that it can be a powerful tool for any website owner. But, I haven’t got too caught up in Twitterland. (Go ahead, I’m bound to have my hand smacked here and that’s ok with me!)

Sure, I joined and was active for a short period of time. Trying to make time to Twitter and keep up with the tweets is an awfully big task that takes up too much time, though. Sure, there are a few automated systems out there. Maybe once I find time to get my hands into those, I’ll get back on the Tweet-wagon.

But are you a chatty little tweeter? If so, you may be able to borrow some instant credibility from an authority figure in your field. There are likely many of them out there using Tweeter and hopefully you’re chirpy friends. If so, you can try to get re-tweets of your messages containing links to your website, blog, offer, etc…

This is something that Dan Zarrella talks about in detail on a new post at Copyblogger. The post has some nice information about stats of re-tweets. This method may be able to bring you a decent amount of traffic if done correctly and you actually get a few good re-tweets. But how easy do you think it really is to get those high-profile tweeters to do it? Have you ever tried this? What’s your success (or unsuccessful) story?

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The latest news from the world of search engines is absolutely a New Year gift for marketers and people since not less than six new social search engines are going to get launched in 2009. The six simple social search engines will be a very simple tool for the upcoming as well as established small business marketers. Since the objective behind using social search engines by small scale marketers are many, including least expense as well as the latest marketing information, the upcoming engines could very well prove to be handy.

Delver, one among those 6 comes up with attractive graphical connectivity of friends and social networking and has all the reasons to top the list. If ever Google heads up with a collaborative attempt, it will be too attractive, for sure.

WhosTalkin?  Is the next one in the list and it attracts the attention of the marketers with the kind of composed and organized set up it has got. Reserved locations for separate search interests make it good looking.
Samepoint, another search engine puts up a healthy platform for discussions and chats.

Socialmention, another highlight of 2009, follows a rank based approach for the most wanted socially searched item. Serph and oneRiot also peep into the list of getting a stupendous take off in 2009and small business seekers have all reasons to cheer.

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Google has recently introduced the Beta version of their Friend Connect. This service will enable the non-technical website owners to improve their websites with various social features. The visitors could log in to this using the credentials with Google, OpenID or Yahoo. The service has announced to get support for their integration with the famous Twitter network.

One could log in to the friend connected sites with the help of their Twitter details. They can look for their buddies, if they are members of this Google service. if any user want to invite friends, they can create a tweet with the gadget of those members and mention the address of this new site. When the invitation is sent, the followers of Twitter can click the link and reach the next page. If you want to accept this invitation, you can replace your Friend Connect profile using the Twitter one.

Twitter is working with both Facebook and Google. Twitter is not ready to take sides. Twitter is popular as a micro blogging service. This will help users to be informed of the various events. The news from this service covers a wide area, including tracking of jailed journalists to recording movements of unborn babies.

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Of course, English as a language is widely accepted as the language of the internet. However, what do you do when you get an enormous number of submissions in other languages? When the Sphinn social news site was launched, this problem plagued everyone. What was one supposed to do with the Japanese submissions? Maybe for English speaking internet readers this problem didn’t look quite as huge but truth is how was all the spam that got submitted to be monitored. Traffic congestion and mismatches were likely.

Thanks to Kenichi Suzuki, and developer Sera Hiroyuki, now you can breathe a sigh of relief because Sphinn Japan is here, a great step in the SEO world that’s going to help channelize things. It also does pave the way for the development of other foreign language inclusions in mainstream site building and submissions.

This is great news for internet marketers as it allows limitless growth and management in the online world. It’s a global scenario now; certainly the SEO and online marketing opportunities are likely to increase encompassing a much larger audience. With the SEO world getting bigger each moment, it is important to know that previous limitations may not be there anymore and this will help you increase your scope of work.

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Ok so today I logged into my digg profile to see that there is a story with other 10K votes an amazing feat for any story of any nature. Although I have before slated digg in previous posts for the way the site is run, you can absolutley see the potential power of a strong story. I guess with about 10k diggs that site in question must of got a heck of alot of traffic with alot of subscribers and it generated alot of buzz as its all over the internet. Whether or not the story is true it just goes to show anyone using digg can see why it is labelled the top social site around these days

As you can see from the title I feel this story in question has broken the digg record with the most votes. There maybe another few that have like 20 – 30k votes but this is the only one that caught mine and a global attention. So if you have do let us know the URL if you think there are more that has the power of this story. Finally id just like to congratulate the submitter of the story and digg for achieving such a great feat. I say bring on the 20k with a killer story! 

P.S If you know any other storys that have achieved this feat do let us know

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We have launched dizzed.com, but as you know you cant just sit back and wait for people to come to your site you have to go and grab them. I present to you the first dizzed video gaining access to the public I hope you like it and dont forget to refer your friends to dizzed.com

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The good old days are dead, what happened to you digg? The site that used to be user generated has fallen prey to the big guns and has fallen victim to there own success. Its a shame how we always see the same domains being made popular although the storys are so boring that my grandma would not even read! Just to entail how diggs algo has changed I would like to show you, or maybe they do not have an algo at all I believe they just have a few editors that will post.

Just take a look at this for one example:

http://digg.com/tech_news/Plurk_The_Near_Perfect_Lifestreaming_Experience_Has_Arrived

Over 200+ diggs and the story still did not go popular. Why because digg is a sham, the days are gone where the users got to promote which story they love no matter where the source was from. Now BBC, CNN, Techcrunch and all the other big guns have a slice of digg and noone else can get there foot in. Yes you heard it right here digg and other big user generated sites are abusing there members to bring in the fast cash they are taking advantage of the web 2.0 bubble and if they dont sort themselves out they will end up bursting it.

An update this story has now been classed as inaccurate apparently by users!! hmmm I wonder how that can be when it got so many diggs in the first few hours. Again work of editors not users they have no right its not adult, gambling or spam, with this many diggs it should have gone popular but theres no way they would let that happen

The link is here http://digg.com/tech_news/Digg_is_no_longer_user_generated

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Search Engine Optimization, simply put, is about hitting the bull’s eye, which means to be the top ranker in the list generated by search engine results and achieve top precedence on the recognition lists among the web visitors. SEO or search engine optimization is the utilization of specific keywords configured on the site in a way that they will be very easily found, read as well as indexed by search engines in a manner that they will impel traffic to your website. The keywords used in your META tag ought to be used properly in the text on the website. Individual web pages should target keywords and phrases so as to be indexed and ranked appropriately.

SEM, or search engine marketing, comprises researching, submitting and marketing the website to attain highest exposure and traffic. It usually includes banner ads, affiliate – programs, link building campaigns and article marketing. Well-planned and well-placed banner ads will facilitate draw attention to the intended site. Affiliate programs can be very advantageous for all the parties involved. Link building is the act of placing links to the site in tactical places on blogs, forums as well as other related websites.

Search engine submission, directory submission, article writing, link building, Keyword selection, press release, Title and Meta Tags are key search engine optimization techniques to be a top ranker in search engines as well as to create more traffic. All the major SEO companies all over the world are applying these strategies to improve websites ranking and bring more traffic.

SEO techniques play a fundamental role in the success of a web site. Latest SEO is a combination of SEO techniques and SMO techniques. SMO or Social Media Optimization is a set of techniques used for creating traffic during social and community websites. Utilizing social networking sites such as YouTube, MySpace and others could give the frame you require. SMO is potentially the simplest type of marketing, since all that is needed of you, is to join a great network of friends’ list and post comments on their blogs now and then. The more active you are in the social networks; there will be more links to your site. The more links you create, the better the potential for visitors to view the website and take benefit of your client’s products and services.

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