You may have heard of an internet sensation called Twitter. The concept of this site is simple: update people on what you’re currently doing in one hundred forty characters or less. You can follow people, people can follow you, you can quote what other people are saying and you can comeback to what other people are saying. Twitter essentially makes a quick paced interactive and massive community with similar wellbeing. So what?When you join a club or sport, you typically join because you share an interest in that area. Likewise, you follow people on Twitter because you share a common interest. Since there’s no limit as to how many followers you can have, you can be in contact with thousands of people with one simple update. It gets better though. Imagine thousands of followers in your target market because having a large number of people following you is meaningless if there is no common interest. If you have thousands of people following you because they have an interest in network marketing, then you have struck gold.How do you leverage Twitter to make a massive following in your target market though? How can you have thousands of followers without eating all the hours of your day? The key is automation. I have prepared a list of free Twitter marketing tools to aid you in building a massive following. The three tools I will be talking about are:-Twitter Karma-Tweetree-Peep LaterTwitter Karma is a tool that helps you maintain a weigh between people you are following and people following you. Twitter Karma allows you to sort users in different categories primarily users that you are following but they aren’t following back, and users that are following you but you aren’t following them back. Essentially, you just check all and either click bulk follow or bulk unfollow. Make sure to wait about ten minutes between each submission. That’s it. You have a excellent ratio for your following/followers.The next tool is called Tweetree. The main thing you want to use Tweetree for is for the Retweet (RT) button and managing conversations with other users. Remember, retweeting is simply quoting a further user, and usually requires you to type everything out. With Tweetree, there is a button when you go your mouse over a peep and an RT button appears. Simply click that button and hit send. Now there is no more typing for retweets. The second function is managing conversations. Sometimes other users respond to your peep, but you don’t check until later. The time gap can lead to confusion as to what the response was referring to. Tweetree puts a user’s response indented under your peep so you can take up again a conversation and not worry about forgetting what it was all about.Lastly, Peep Later is for auto-pilot use. The main benefits of using this service is to have an automated welcome message and auto follow/unfollow events. To edit these settings follow these steps:1. Log in to Peep Later2. Click Accounts3. Click List Accounts4. Click EditFrom here you can edit all automation methods you want to carry out. Make sure to check the auto welcome box and type in your welcome message. A word of advice for typing out your welcome message: Do not post your affiliate link. There are many Twitter users posting affiliate links in their welcome messages and it makes interaction very impersonal. Instead, type a friendly message thanking them for following you and link them to a place of value. Now when I say place of value I mean a blog, Youtube channel, articles page or Facebook. All of these are acceptable places to lead new followers to, because it builds a personal connection and not the dreaded sales pitch.If you want to rotate welcome messages, there is a link right above the text box that shows you how to do that. You may want to rotate people going to your Facebook, blog or articles, so that’s a fantastic way to send traffic everywhere. Next you want to check involuntarily follow people and check involuntarily unfollow people. These two options help keep your following and follower ratio in check.That’s it. These three free Twitter marketing tools will help you build a massive and target following to leverage your online business. But, automated software can only do so much. You need to interact with other users through comeback messages and retweets. Just like any business, developing relationships with people is the only way to rapidly grow your business. By interacting with other users and applying these tools, your following will grow your Twitter following in no time.
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Free Twitter Marketing Tools – Optimizing Twitter to Get a Massive Following
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010Tips for Optimizing your Website for Search Engines
Friday, January 15th, 2010Search engine optimization would help you to get your site better in eyes of search engine. But one should start early to get earlier results. That way you can meet the expense of to play around with SEO knowledge.
Here are few tips for your search engine optimization.
Name your Files Well: You should try and save images, media, and web pages with the keywords in the file names. This is just in theory but there is no harm in trying. For example, if your keyword phrase is “home business” you can save the images used on that page as home_business_01.jpg or home-business-01.jpg etc.
Your web page’s filename is also vital because search engines now allow “inurl:” searches. So if your web page is on home business, you should name it home_business.html or home-business.html.
Help Them With Site Map: Making a site mapis must for SEOing your website. Search engines like site map since it allows them to crawl all web pages since sitemap is linked to every page on website.
Place a robots.txt File: A robots.txt file at the root of your website would let the robot know which file to crawl and which not to crawl.
Making a robot.txt file is simple. To allow all pages to be crawled, open up a text editor and type “User-agent: *”. Save the file as robots.txt and upload it to your root directory on your domain.
But it is a excellent thought to block irrelevant content because the search engine analyzes everything it indexes to determine what your website is all about. To disallow files to be read, by add “Disallow: /folder_name/” or “Disallow: /filename.html”.
Know Your Keywords: When you want to optimize your site for search engines, you would want to do that for best possible keywords. when performing a search, you should start by keeping your searches broad rather than specific. Learn Your Competitors We have discussed this previous to. It is vital to find and analyze websites of competitors.
You should know a the keywords they rank in top for and number of inbound links. That would help to set a target for your site.
Optimize Your Website Title:Your website title should be keyword rich. You should place your keywords towards beginning of your title. Maximum part of title should be 66 characters because Google says so 
. You can use “|” sign to separate keywords or key phrases.
Keep Meta Tags Clean: Search engines do not place much importance to keyword metatags now until they are relevant. So keep your keyword metatag relevant and should not appear as stuffed. You should place a excellent description also which uses relevant keywords though not much importance is given to this tag too.
Optimizing Dynamic Websites
Monday, January 11th, 2010With technological advancement, web 2.0 web applications are being urban every day and static websites are no longer just simply static, they are either migrated to dynamic websites using PHP, ASP, JSP and other programming languages to provide customized contents to users and also rich interaction or static websites are made more interactive by count elements like flash banners to impart very interactive look to your website. These dynamic websites have provided user interaction by providing interface for users, eBay online auction store, Amazon book store; Yahoo stores are live examples which let users do real time shopping by making financial statement online, place orders, check their account status and swipe cards for payment – everything is secure online. Ecommerce storefront development, portal development, b2b osCommerce development have mobilized are life and making everything possible over internet.
Now coming to these dynamic websites visibility, these web sites should be search engine friendly but it is really hard to make these dynamic websites search engine friendly.
What led to need of making dynamic websites???
With growing need to sell harvest and air force online for global reach and visibility in very fleeting span of time websites are urban and internet proved the best tool for promotion of your business. Selling air force through static websites is not a hard nut to crack but coming to selling thousands of harvest online developers started finding difficulty. Dynamic websites are web sites whose web pages are generated on glide and provide interactive experience to users. Web pages have interactive navigation and generated on demand in comparison to static websites where web pages navigation are just hyperlink based. Static websites are easily indexable by major search engines but dynamic websites are not easily indexed by search engines. With the point to sell harvest online, ecommerce storefront are urban providing user interactive interface, this virtual online store provides real time shopping interface to its customers. It is not simple to develop a static website to promote thousands of harvest and manage those pages, as this requires making unique pages for every product.
These dynamic websites to make interactivity use either server side scripting or client side scripting languages. Dynamic web pages are produced on glide, many web pages really do not exist on the server, on demand they are produced when a user generates a query and if the site is database driven, query string is manipulated and then this string pulls the web page from the database and they do not physically exist and thus are not indexed by search engine. It is not really simple to index these websites, but there are few vital ways to optimize these websites for search engines.
URL Rewriting: Dynamic web pages URLs are query strings with delimiters like question mark; also these URLs are very long and have encoded variables generated by scripting languages. These links are generated and modified by scripting language by count a session id to the generated URLs to keep away users from blocking the cookies, these session ids are unique for every stay of Google. Still many search engines do not index these dynamic web pages, the search engine spider get lost in loops. You need to manually rewrite these URLs by removing special characters, secret code and variables like – ?!= these. Some open source content management systems have modules for URL rewriting. Example: Joomla generates search engine friendly URLs and provides page caching mechanism. CGI/Perl script is a further way for getting your site indexed by search engines. Query part of dynamically generated URLs is assigned variable that returns a search engine friendly URLs that are easily indexed by search engine crawlers.
Making a static site map for your dynamic website: Make sure that your websites’ dynamically generated all web pages are linked to the static sitemap page and submit this static web page to search engines and directories.
Other is URL re-write module will help your dynamic website to be indexed by search engines but again it depends on the server your website is hosted. For Apache server mod-rewrite scripting module helps to modify your URL in search engine friendly format. For IIS windows based server ISAP rewrite program is used.
Turning off link appendage, PHP.ini file, will instruct server to turn off user session id and only thrash on cookies session id (session.use_trans_sid and turn on session.use_only_cookies). This can also be achieved by writing .HTACCESS file and count “php_flag session.use_trans_sid Off” and php_flag session.use_only_cookies On.
Most vital what I want to discuss with you about ecommerce websites are server certification. .htpasswd and .htaccess are two files that will let you password protect your web pages on server and keep your information safe and secure.
.htpasswd file should be placed somewhere other that directory of the website and its path is certain as /etc/apache2/.htpasswd as it is used to keep user login and password of website’s users.
.htaccess file contains access information of the website users and their rights and are placed in the root of website directory.
Now let me come to some of the most vital issues – the speed of loading and low overhead for a dynamic web page. Load balancing, bandwidth management, security, encryption are some of the other vital issues which we need to consider previous to making a dynamic website.
On demand constructed web pages take more response time and also server has to take extra at the time of on-demand page generation. Performance and scalability are most vital issues that have risen with these dynamic websites. It is also calculated that server-side latency financial statement for 40 percent of the total page delivery time experienced by end users.
To speed up dynamic web pages construction at server side we need to consider dynamic page pre-generation, fragment caching and code caching.