Oct 26 2009

Get More Exposure by Being Re-Tweeted by RT Bots

There's one tiny but cool Twitter hack I had some success with, so decided to share: give your Tweets more exposure with auto-retweet Twitter bots. How do auto-RT bots work? These are scripts that publish things a Twitter users tweet about to their own profile, thus collecting information on a specific topic. Why can getting retweeted by such a bot be a good idea? Many of those bots have a lot of followers and are also tracked by mass media. I for one got a really good link due to one of such retweets, hence my sharing this tip. (Please note, I don't suggest going after some spammy bots, the bots listed here are all quite powerful, fun and useful). How can I get retweeted by one...

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Get Traffic with Facebook “Notes”

John Haydon had an awesome post on his blog sharing how to leverage Facebook "Notes" to get traffic to your blog. To drive traffic to your blog you need to add its RSS to "Notes" application and ask your best Facebook friends to do the same! Here's why it's powerful: If you have 30 fans who each have 100 friends, your blog post will be seen by as many as 3,000 people. These...

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Easy Links and Traffic: Write on Some Weird Google Suggestions

There have been a lot of talk about weird suggestions people keep seeing in Google Suggest drop-down. Well, how we search bloggers can benefit from this is quite clear: write a post on one of the funky Google suggestions and get ranked in top 10 for the phrase! Why is this a good idea: Google shows what other people search (so the phrase is likely to generate you some good Google referral traffic); The fact that...

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Check and Fix Broken Links with This Wordpress Plugin

A broken link hurts both your site usability and SEO. Users feel disappointed when clicking a link to land nowhere and search engines certainly don't want them to: so if they find a lot of broken link on your pages, this may hurt your reputation. Anyway, it is quite clear that broken links are bad. But there's hardly any website out there that has no broken links at all - because it is hard to keep...

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SEO for e-Commerce Sites: Dealing with Out-of-Stock Product Pages

The following tips are from Ran of Wood and Beyond Here are my 2 tips as to how we deal with product discontinuation to preserve some SEO value and to shift authority gained from indexed products. Hopefully you'd like my tips and I suspect other e-commerce sites might benefit from them as well. Problem: Having products discontinue or out of stock is a real challenge for us,...

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Does 301-Redirect Transfer the Penalty?

Getting penalized is every webmaster's nightmare. Even if you are completely innocent (which is unlikely as penalties seldom happen without a reason), figuring that out may take months which can actually ruin your business. One theoretical way to quickly to solve the problem might be a 301 redirect following the logic: 301 redirect "transfers" the link power (which means links pointing to one particular domain will now point to a new one); By transferring the link power, 301-redirect...

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