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Micro Blogging is the newest Web 2.0 sensation, and savvy marketers are cashing in on the craze.

Why should the competition have all the FUN??

The best way to describe micro blogging is “text messaging on steroids.”

If Google is sitting up and taking notice of Twitter, Pownce, and Tumblr…then I’m on it!

I’m assuming you’re serious about your internet business or you wouldn’t be reading this, so let me explain what all the fuss is about micro blogging and why…

You, as a network marketer can’t be late to this Web 2.0 “party”!!

If you check out alexa.com, you’ll find that twitter is the 904^th most popular site on the entire internet. It was developed last year and became popular among techno-gurus at the 2007 South by Southwest Conference in Austin, Texas.

The fact that it’s a relatively new player is EXACTLY why you should be paying attention.

I did a site check on Google, and Twitter has 22.4 MILLION indexed pages. That means Google is paying attention, and if Google is sitting up and noticing, you need to jump on this opportunity to make it work for your business.

When you put your content related to your business opportunity on Twitter and other micro blogging sites like Pownce, Tumblr, and Jaiku, Google’s spiders follow…your pages will get indexed…your properties will rank…and you’ll make more $. 

So…exactly what is micro blogging? Think about how many times a day you ask someone, “What are you doing right now?”

Part of the magic of Twitter is that it limits you to 140 characters per post, forcing you to make pithy statements on the fly.

Imagine what this could mean as far as FREE leads to your business!

As an internet marketer, you’re able to connect with potential prospects without investing a lot of time, and it can be done from your cell phone, from email, Instant Messager…quick, to the point, easy. They get to know you and trust you.

It’s tough to get people’s attention today. 

They’re bombarded with media, their email boxes are stuffed, and they’re stressed for time. Like MySpace when it first broke out, Twitter allows people to become your friend or subscribe to your RSS feed.

According “Black Hat Web Marketer” Howie Schwartz, internet marketers using MySpace to promote their businesses are finding it more difficult because it’s getting saturated as opposed to its early days when there was little competition.

MySpace is dying…Twitter is the new MySpace.

Here are a few basic tips to help you get the most out of micro-blogging without being overwhelmed…or overwhelming others:

• Consider your audience: Remember you are writing to potential business prospects. Make sure you’re giving them something of value.
• Post regularly but not too often: Twitter has a “nudge” feature that reminds you to post if you haven’t done so for awhile. So keep the posts coming, but don’t inundate your audience.
• Don’t include personal details in an open broadcast: If your feed is public and you have a lot of “followers” or “friends” who you don’t know well, you might consider leaving out some specific details about where you are and what you’re doing. “I’m at the grocery store” might be better than “I’m at the Wal-Mart on Grove St.”

Listen, the internet is like a woman playing hard to get…difficult to pin down, next to impossible to guess its moods, but oh so rewarding when you give it what it wants. How you market on the internet depends on how Google is feeling. You have to learn to read its moods.

Money is made on the internet early on before your competitors jump in on the action. 
You have to take advantage of these hot, new stars when they make their appearance…your business depends on “getting to the party” first!

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It is no secret that blogs are great for helping you increase your SEO rankings. If you did not know this you do now. You can use wordpress, blogspot, to create a blog, post data frequently and the search engines will follow this by indexing and following the data you post on your blog.

Most blogs are for personal use, i.e. sharing information, talking about your experiences, or maybe promoting your own service. One important element of blogs is SEO and marketing. This is because blogs get frequently updated (daily or maybe even twice a day), and usually speaking the data is fresh and unique so search engines put high weight on blogs that are focused, relevant, get updated regularly, stay on topic and have a good navigational structure.

It is the freshness of the content that the search engines seek, and as blogs are updated frequently search engine bots will come looking and therefore will frequently visit your blog. This is turn can be used to your advantage so that you can link to other sites, or use any deep links, that you need to get noticed by the crawlers or search engine bots. Most blogs do not contain direct links, however you could always format your blog so that it does contain permanent links if required. This can then help with increasing your SEO score for your site.

A very common mistake made by novice bloggers is that they will spend a lot of money advertising their blog, but they have actually not made a useful, informative post or article. The aim for bloggers should be to add content regularly and than start advertising, spending money on advertising, and ensure on undertaking SEO activities.

Another mistake novice bloggers make is that they do not optimise their blogs for SEO. For e.g. the title can be optimised for SEO so that it grabs the readers attention as well as increasing your traffic to your blog. However many bloggers do not do this.

Finally do ensure that whilst bloging, you are also optimising your blog, by undertaking effective SEO techniques.

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