Category — marketing

The following is a list of twitter directory sites that can give you more followers:

1) wefollow.com

This is a new project from Kevin Rose. It’s user-created directory for anyone with a twitter account. Each person with a twitter account can have up to 3 tags associated with it. Adding yourself to the directory is also easy. You just need to click the following link.

2) twitterpacks.pbwiki.com

Twitterpacks is a wiki-style twitter directory. Each category and sub-category has a page that you can edit and add your twitter account page.

3) justtweetit.com

A large directory of twitter users categorized by topics.

4) www.tweetfind.com

In addition to a directory of twitter users, it also shows the top 10 trends in the last 5 minutes, few hours, and 24 hours.

5) www.twibs.com

A directory of businesses on twitter.

1) Google Trends

You can use this tool to compare daily unique visitors to your site compared to multiple competitors. When you’re signed in with a google account, it will display volume numbers. You can segment by region or time period and also see what sites or search terms visitors used. As an example, I searched twitter.com.

Here are the results:

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2) Google Insights for Search

You can view trending of interest in your company versus that of your competitor’s company versus that of keywords of products or services in your category. It also allows you to filter by region. As an example, you could track the interest for pepsi in Brazil in the last 12 months and compare it to the interest in Canada.

Link Here

3) Google ad planner

This service is still in beta, but it can give you some valuable demographic information. You can: search for websites relevant to your audience, access aggregated statistics on the number of unique visitors, create lists of websites where you’d like to advertise and store them in a media plan, and generate aggregated website statistics for your media plan.

Link Here

4) Google alternative view for search results

This is an experimental service from google. You need to go to the link below and click on: “join this experiment”. You can search for keywords and specify a month/year filter.

Link Here

5) twist.flaptor.com

This site will allow you to search for daily trends on twitter. This includes a graph of the search term and individual tweets that contained it.

Link Here

If you are using wordpress for your blog, the following tools can help you increase traffic to your site:

1) All in One SEO Pack

Features:

• Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines
• Generates META tags automatically
• Avoids the typical duplicate content found on Wordpress blogs
• You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want.
• Backward-Compatibility with many other plugins, like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior and others.
• Change the post title on each article
• Autogenerate descriptions
• Setup meta tags and descriptions for the home page

Download Here

2) XML Sitemap Generator

Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.

Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow crawlers that support Sitemaps to pick up all URLs in the Sitemap and learn about those URLs using the associated metadata. Using the Sitemap protocol does not guarantee that web pages are included in search engines, but provides hints for web crawlers to do a better job of crawling your site.

Having a dynamic site generated from each blog post will allow the major search engines to crawl your site at a faster rate which can help you in terms of search engine traffic.

Features:

• Notifies all major search engines (google,msn,ask.com,aol,yahoo). These can also be turned on or off.
• Rebuilds sitemap if you change the content of your blog
• Adds sitemap URL to the virtual robots.txt file
• Generate sitemap in XML or gzipped format
• Limit the number of posts in the sitemap
• Builds the sitemap in a background process (You don’t have to wait when you save a post)
• Exclude categories or posts
• Ability to change frequency and priority of categories and posts within the sitemap file

Download Here

3) Twitter tools

This is a wordpress plugin by Alex King. It creates an integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. It allows you to pull your tweets into your blog (as posts and digests) and create new tweets on blog posts and from within WordPress.

This is a must-have for anyone with a wordpress blog. It is very easy to setup (you just need to choose a couple of settings and add your twitter username and password information) and it allows you to quickly notify your friends on twitter when you have a new post on your blog.

Features:

• Automatically create tweets through your blog posts
• Create blog posts from your tweets
• Daily digest posts from your tweets (experimental)
• Weekly digest posts from your tweets (experimental)

Download it Here

4) Onlywire autosubmit plugin

http://www.onlywire.com is a free service* that allows you to submit a link to many different social bookmarking sites from one place. This plugin uses the onlywire API to automatically submit your articles to multiple social bookmarking sites.

*The service is free if you include a link-back to the onlwire site. If you want to remove the link, you need to pay for the premium version, which is $2.99/month.

Social bookmarking sites supported:

• ask.com
• bluedot
• delicious
• facebook
• jumptags
• multiply
• newsvine
• stumbleupon
• simpy
• bibsonomy
• bookmarksync
• digg (note: it’s not automatic)
• furl
• linkatopia
• myspace
• propeller
• slashdot
• technorati
• blinklist
• connotea
• diigo
• googlebookmarks
• mixx
• mywebyahoo
• reddit (note: it’s not automatic)
• spurl
• twitter (Note: the wordpress plugin gives you more control)

Download Here

5) digg digg

Digg digg encourages your readers to submit your articles to major social bookmarking sites. It easily integrates into your template (no code changes required).

Social bookmarking sites supported:

• Digg
• Reddit
• dzone
• Yahoo buzz

Features:

• Choose where you want it to show up on the page(left float, right float, before content, after content)
• Choose which pages will display the buttons (home page,static pages,post pages,category pages,archive pages)
• Optionally turn on/off each social bookmarking site
• Button display options (normal, compact, icon)

Download Here