Night Of the Living Thread

I thought I’d take a couple minutes today to talk about how to attract more traffic from Twitter. I recently picked up the e-book Twitter Dummy from John Paul Aulaguiar and have been putting it to the test. Since implementing some of the tips I learned here I’ve been able to quadruple my Twitter traffic in 1 month’s time. Below are just some of the things I’ve been implementing that have been working to drive traffic to my website using Twitter.

Power Twitter In Brief With Screenshots

So let me start this post off with… I’M AN IDIOT! I forgot I installed this super cool extension for Firefox Power Twitter“. It’s what Twitter is going to be some day. Inline video and images along with the 140 characters. It’s that last piece you were missing from Twitter delivered by default.

If You Don’t Use These WordPress Plugins for SEO You Can Go To Hell

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Provocative enough title for ya? There’s a free traffic tip for you right there. Write compelling titles that draw in a reader’s attention. Try to be controversial, but that’s not what this post is about. In this post I will lay out some must have plugins for Wordpress.

These pluigins will help your site not only run smoother, but also ensure stellar organic rankings.

How To Update Your Facebook Fanpage Status Automatically Using RSS Graffiti

Updating your Facebook fan page is a great way of promoting new blog posts. If you post often or have multiple blog authors this can get to be a cumbersome and repetitive task. In the past, I used Twitterfeed to update my social networks. Due to a api error this has proven to be a dodgy process at best. So in the interest of automating status updates once again I have found rss graffiti to be a great fit. So let’s get started.

20 Social Media Resources For Bloggers

Happy Monday everybody. I thought I’d start the week off by posting my last 20, “social-media”, links. In the list below there are a lot of good tips and resources such as.

• Tips for getting more relevant followers on Twitter
• Facebook widget resources
• FBML and Facebook marketing
• Business directories on Twitter

Tips For Surviving A Zombie Apocalypse

A guide to writing effective blog posts using my favorite subject zombies.

The following article is an example of how to write a blog post that kills. Using the walking dead as my subject I will outline some effective blogging tips that are sure to alert hordes of traffic of your virtual whereabouts. For a zombie-free version of these tips please check out this article right here –> How To Create An Effective Blog Post.

The Difference Between TweetDeck, HootSuite And Seesmic

Being a social media specialist I manage a huge number social networks for a large number of companies. It can be a lot to keep track of after a while with all the options out there. Shortly after I lost count of all the profiles I was maintaining it became painfully obvious that I needed a program for keeping track of the social identities. With all the options out there it can be confusing to know which program to use so I put together this review to help point out the pros and cons of each.

Great Big List of Social Media Development Tips

One of my many job titles where I work is Social Media Director. I’ve been maintaining all of the social networks for our many company websites. 12 sites with at the least 3 social networking accounts attached. You do the math. Over the past couple years I’ve picked up on some really great tips and tricks from across the web. The list below is not only filled with useful plug-ins and software downloads, but also many great social networking communities and top gurus in the field.

Hootsuite Is Sweet! Aprils Fools, No Seriously It’s Worth Checking Out

I was using Tweetdeck to manage my social networks, but I recently set up my account at Hootsuite and am really liking it. It has more social networks integrated into it than Tweetdeck does. Not only does it have support for Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and Ping.fm it also includes Wordpress, Four Square, Myspace and even a custom rss feed option.

How To Drive Traffic To Your Website Using Facebook Fan Pages

Are you on Facebook? Sure you are and who isn’t these days so why not take advantage of this bit of demographic info to drive new visitors to your website. This is a fairly simple process, but due to the fact that Facebook is constantly changing how their site works it can be a bit confusing so I’ll do a quick run down here and then show you how to automatically populate your fan page with content from your website.

To Drop Cards Or Not, Does Entrecard Work?

I stopped dropping cards about 6 months ago. I was pretty active for a while and I did see results in Google Analytics, but I don’t know how targeted my traffic was. It did increase the amount of unique hits I was getting, but it also increased the amount of spam comments I was getting. In the end I don’t know what value it added to my site. The very nature of Entrecard feels like something that will eventually be banned by the major search engines.