TWITTER 101 – LEARNING THE BASICS

For those of you who need to understand why anyone would ever want to Twitter, watch the video below.

Twitter is a great way to connect with family, friends and business associates. Here are a few things you need to do when you set up your Twitter account.

1 Create your profile. Help people understand what you’re all about and why they should follow you. You can include a link to your site within your profile. Include a nice picture to represent your business or add your own mug.

2. Don’t spam. Think of Twitter as a way to help people, not spam your affiliate products in their face. Retweet helpful information you find on the web. Tweeting things of value is a good way to build a good rep among your Tweeting followers.

3. Follow to be followed. Follow people that deliver worthy Tweets of interest, and they will appreciate your worthy Tweets as well. If you want to be followed, you need to find people to follow first. Don’t get all caught up into the greedy Tweeters who try to tell you how to use and abuse your Twitter followers just to sell products or information.

4. Inspire and communicate. Since you’ve been smart and are following experts in your field or niche, feel free to ask questions. Be kind and helpful. It’s not just about YOU. Twitter is about sharing and communicating relevant information.

5. Tweet your blog posts. Gotta WordPress blog? Use the TweetMe plugin and Tweet your blog posts to your followers.

How to Set Up Your Twitter Account

I’m not a techi gal, and you’re probably not interested in the programming details of Facebooks new um… Open Graph Protocol and Graph API, but if you FB, you’ll wanna read this post.

Facebook LIKE Button

To Like Or Not to Like

Facebook Colonizing the Web Via LIKES

Everywhere you go you’re going to start noticing something. That little button that offers to LIKE what you see. I have one at the bottom of my page here. Go ahead… LIKE ME!

Simple to use and implement tools like these are expanding Facebook’s colonization efforts.

With this tool and a few others, FB has developed a seriously deep stake to position itself as the colony leader via the social aspect of the Internet.  With more than 75 partners participating, Mark Zuckerberg predicted that there would be “One billion Like buttons on the web within 24 hours after launch.”

I’ve tried to find out if those statistics came true, but so far it’s a prediction without a follow-up. But if you pay attention to where you surf, take note of just how many places you can now LIKE and share at the click of a button.

What Does This Mean for YOU and ME?

Okay, here’s my wee incite on this issue. While some people are going to be screaming and kicking about how their privacy is invaded, others like um… people who make money with CPA advertising on FB may quite possibly gain access to data that is more targeted resulting in higher click-through rates and a better ROI.

What Does This Mean for YOU and ME Personally?

While FB is making these leaps and bounds with it’s LIKE button it’s also stirred up some frustrations and doubts regarding the privacy issues.

The most important aspect of this feature is that you can LIKE any page without a special login request or connect request via logging in with a user name and password.

So, how can you avoid LIKEING something without it automatically LIKING it to your FB account??

First let me tell you why you should know this.

I have two FB accounts. I have one that is totally 100% dedicated to friends and family. My other FB page is 100% dedicated to Netwoozy.com. I don’t mix and match. Some of my friends and family have recently decided to Friend my Netwoozy FB page, which is fine. However, I don’t force my business in their FB Face.

When I want to LIKE something that is business, my Internet business, that which totally confuses a lot of my friends and family. I mean their eyes begin to blur and their minds start to wonder whenever I talk about some of the things I LOVE or DO online – SO… I try to avoid these types of one-sided conversations. Which is also why I have a separate business FB account.

How to Avoid LIKING in the Wrong FB Account

Simply remember to LOG OUT of your account before you continue working on other things. Or, remember you are LOGGED IN when you surf and decide you want to LIKE something. You won’t be asked if it’s ok. You won’t be required to LOG IN and accept the intrusion. It’s a done-deal if you are already logged in.

THAT my friends is how to avoid sending LIKES to your personal account when you were simply trying to LIKE it for your business account. Or Vice Versa.

Okay so, are you logged in? Do you wanna “LIKE” this post?

What’s your take on the LIKE without the double opt-in so to speak?

To help you navigate to make these changes on your FB account watch the video below.

These tips are for beginners, but even some advanced webmasters may find them helpful reminders.

Quick and easy tips to help you covert your traffic into traffic that converts into a lower bounce rate, a higher click-through rate, or a higher rate of opt-in subscribers. Basically, these tips will help keep your visitors from leaving your site before they get a good taste of what you have to offer.

Design Tip – KISS – Keep it Super Simple

This is also a Google pleaser.

Avoid having any type of introductory video or slideshow as your main page. No one wants to site back and wait while your special introduction loads. I’m sure you’ve visited sites that have these types of things. Typically they will include a little link that says, “Click here to skip intro”.

Many times instead of waiting or skipping the intro, people simply click out.

In addition to annoying your visitors, your rankings will suffer. Matt Cutts mentions that one of the things they look for when ranking a site higher than another site is how fast it loads.

Conveying Trust – Add Your Contact Information

It’s scary to add in your real address and phone number when you think about all the identity theft going on. However, a site that includes a name, address, and phone number conveys trust.

Back in 2002 I started a pet sitting business. I added my phone number on my site via an image. If you’re uncomfortable about leaving your information thinking it will get scrapped by hackers who sell this sort of information to telemarketing companies, do what I did. Add your contact information on an image.

In addition, adding your “mug” to your site helps people to see you’re a real person and it adds another level of trust.

Install Tracking – Google Analytics

Google Analytics (GA) will help you see what your bounce rate is, how long people stay on your site once they arrive, and if they click-through to another page on your site. There are many more factors that are revealed by installing GA to your site such as where your traffic is coming from.

GA is far more statistically revealing than the typical site tracking that comes with your hosting account. You can get GA here.

Google Webmaster Tools

Google also provides a nice assortment of tools to help you fix broken links and other things to help improve your site conversions. Click here to go to Google Webmaster Tools.

These things may seem like tiny tips, but they are very powerful when taken into consideration for making site improvements.

From basics to advanced, stay tuned for more traffic tips coming soon, right here on Netwoozy.com.

Tools to Help Improve Your SEO

ON-Page SEO

I personally use SEO Professor to help me with on-page SEO.

Traffic & Backlink Tool

I also use both Unique Article Wizard and Article Marketing Automation to submit my articles to other blogs, websites, and article directories.

WordPress Plugins – In my next post I’ll reveal what WP Plugins I am using and those that you may want to use as well.

Please Tweet, Like and Share – It helps me deliver the best possible, free content.

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FaceBook VS Google Plus

Remember those silly commercials by Yahoo? Do you YAHOOooooOOO??

Well, there was a time when Yahoo owned the search engine market. Up to 60% at one point in time. Then this amazing thing happened. Almost over night Google was THE search engine. It seemed like whenever a search was conducted in a movie, on a TV series, in the news… they “Googled” it.

WHAM! Yahoo was smacked out of this market in one clean sweep. Every since Google snagged the lions share of the search engine market, there has been no other contender.

Yah, Bing gave it a whirl, even making an appearance in the entertainment media here and there, but it was David trying to take on Goliath without his handy bag full of stones. Bing walked into that fight totally unprepared to take on the mighty Google.

The next step for Google was to dominate the video market. They bout Youtube last year in 2010 for a whopping six billion plus dollars!

Next they went after Groupon, but Groupon wouldn’t have it. They continued to turn down the SIX BILLION dollar offer to buy them out. Perhaps you are wondering what Groupon is. It’s a Deal of the Day website. So, taking over Groupon would be like snagging up a huge piece of the Ebay and Craigslist market share.

The rumor is that Groupon is perhaps holding out for a bigger offer based on the possible up to $2 billion in yearly sales.

What’s next?

Introducing Google+. Working it’s members up to 40 million within 4 months time.

Like Facebook but with some improvements.

Group video chats – it’s a chat room via everyone using video to be face to face.

Google allows it’s users to connect it’s Blogger personal blogs to their Google+ social networking accounts.

Facebook VS Google – Why Should YOU Care?

Social networking is a big part of making money online. Used correctly you can drive a huge amount of traffic to your website without worrying about SEO. And you can boost your SEO efforts using social networking. They go hand-in-hand.

If I was looking for a new product to create, this is what I’d be looking at now:

How to USE Google PLUS and Blogger to …

Drive traffic and Boost Your SEO

THAT I am SURE is going to be a new step by step video offer soon. Or maybe it’s already being done. I dunno. I just know that it’s worth keeping track of this new Google + social network.

Will Google make a quick snack of Facebook?

What do you think?

Post your thoughts below.

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UPDATE:

Google spent 500 million on um… their sneaky plot to rule the Internet.

Facebook Denied – Matt Cutts removes his FB page – why you ask? Well…. he “claims” its because they are not providing the proper education on privacy for their new addons.

Rumor – He’s in Kahoots with Google Plus to take over FB’s 750 million users.

I was thinking this morning about how I got started online making money. It really started way back in 2000 with this site. But, the money I earned was more with web design and then SEO.

Mark Lings Affiloblueprint 2.0 Program

During the years I’ve probably spent about $10,000 or more buying software and how-to programs to teach me how to make money. In the coming weeks I’m going to write a series of articles on How to Become Successful By Learning From Failure. While I’m writing this series, I’m planning on taking my own advice.

But before I dig into that series, today I wanted to give some Kudo’s to the person who I really feel helped me BELIEVE you can make money online with affiliate programs. Let me give you some of the highlights of why I feel Mark Ling should be given a big Thumbs Up for creating a valuable affiliate training program.

The Simplicity of Mark Lings AffiloBlueprint 2.0 Program

A lot of people have made money online and shared their experience on how they did it. I think the reason why I enjoyed the way Mark Ling did it, is because he showed me a SIMPLE way to market affiliate products. (Read my story in the forum, look for Smuigal)

I’ve read a lot of ebooks on how to get into affiliate marketing but somewhere along the line I’d get overwhelmed or distracted with too many ways to go about it. With AffiloBlueprint, Mark has an easy to follow step by step video series. In fact, I watched these videos and as I watched them (the second time through) I would copy what he did.

It was not hard, it was pretty simple and it worked.

He Gained My Respect

As I watched his videos I learned more about affiliate marketing than I had learned anywhere else. It was not because Mark had new ideas or new ways to do it, it was more in the way he presented the materials.

Plus, Mark actually reveals several of his successful websites and niches. He’s not afraid you are going to steal his ideas or his methods. His own websites are already firmly established and there is no better way to train someone to do something than to show them by example.

I appreciated this about his training program. In fact, my first blog that I built using Marks methods was one of his top ten recommended niches.

My First Sale from Mark Lings Affiloblueprint Program

Within 5 weeks of building my first blog using Marks methods I made my first sale. In fact, you can go to his forum and research my original posts back in 2009 before I quit my offline job. Then read the posts where I did quit, and continue to see my progress through 2010 to today.

I’m not rich. However, my Internet business did enable my husband and I to buy a house this year (2011).

So, today my Kudos go out to Mark Ling. I’d happily invite you to check out his Affiloblueprint program and visit the forum where I like to hang out and chat with other affiliate marketers.

Click Here to Visit AffiloBluePrint and the Forum