My First Day Using Twitter for Marketing
Well, I finally broke down and started using Twitter for Marketing.
(See the Niche Titans on Twitter: @nichetitans!!!)
When I owned Link Building Bible, people had said to use Twitter for marketing purposes. To be honest, I thought micro-blogging was lame. It seemed pointless to me, and so I didn’t use it. Link Building Bible had done fine without it, and so I never considered using something I thought was lame.
Boy, was I wrong! Twitter is awesome. It allows you to find cool people who are interested in the same things as you. It’s like an RSS feedreader on crack. Yah, people use it to spam, but it’s a few quick clicks, and you can no longer follow them. I think Twitter Marketing can be very effective, if you can find a balance between making a connection with others and promoting your stuff.
Another great Twitter marketing tool is simply helping people who throw out questions on Twitter. I forgot how I came across his Twitter account, but @tabpierce asked a simple question, and I contacted him, and answered it. Then something amazing happened. He thanked me to all of his followers, including my Twitter page. Well, I’ve had like 6-7 of his followers already start following me! Even further, one of them said they subscribed to this blog! (Thanks @sherryness!) See how it could possibly go viral?
Stay tuned for some great Twitter tools that I have found that I use. Subscribe to the blog below so you don’t miss out on those!
Free Blog Submission Sites List a Blog Directory
This free blog submission sites list includes the most popular and most useful free blogs and article submission sites. These sites allow you to create a free account to submit interesting articles for everyone to view. Submitting interesting articles to free blog submission sites will help you build links and generate traffic to your website or blog. Make sure that the articles you submit to these free blog sites are unique and that you aren’t using duplicate content.
Here is a very common free blog submission sites list for web 2.0 sites
PageRank 9:
Blogger.com –
A free blog site owned by Google. Also publishes as BlogSpot.com.
You may notice higher rankings in SERPs than with other free blog sites.
PageRank 8:
Twitter.com –
On its way to becoming one of the most popular blog style social networking sites on the internet.
Discuss popular topics with friends and family, build links and generate traffic.
Digg.com –
This is a great site to market your news articles. If your article is interesting you can receive hundreds of diggs and end up on the front page. It’s fairly simple… you create an account, submit an article and hope for tons of diggs!
free blog submission sites list
PageRank 7:
Squidoo.com –
Create a free blog style page and publish unique interesting articles. Squidoo offers links to any site you mention in your articles. Additionally if you have solid keyword density and some links to your squidoo article, you might just find your squidoo article on page1 of Google.
Ning.com –
A popular social networking site. You can create and customize your own blog. As with other sites you’re also able receive and moderate comments on the articles you post. Upload your favorite pictures, videos, or opinions and read other users comments on your “chatterwall”.
43things.com –
Create your own blog and publish articles of your choosing.
Posts provide solid links to your site or products pages.
Advogato.org –
Create an account and publish your articles.
Publish articles to generate traffic and help you build content related links.
PageRank5:
Hubpages.com –
Publish information on some of your favorite topics.
Blogs are arranged as a directory.
Asmallworld.net –
A community that allows you to issue article style press releases.
Share your views, build links, and attract traffic all at the same time.
Link building is cheaper using this free blog submission sites list and link directories
Creating free blogs and submitting articles will help you build links and help you generate traffic from social media sites at the same time. I hope this gives you help you need to create free blogs to build links and generate traffic. You can use the above sites or find other sites that have a list ready for blog directory submission.
Using a blog directory instead of a common free blog submission sites list or article marketing
Using a blog to submit an article or make a directory submission using one of these sites or any other site will take some time. Keep in mind that this is free link building and it’s much better than some kind of junk directory automatic submission service. Take your time exploring each one of these blog style web 2.0 websites while you use this free blog submission sites list and enjoy yourself!
Top Greasemonkey Scripts for Google Analytics
Before I talk about the top Greasemonkey scripts for Google Analytics, let me introduce Greasemonkey to you. Greasemonkey is a Firefox Addon that allows you to change different elements on a website through Javascript. As people make scripts to modify websites, they can share them with others, allowing you many options for modifying websites.
To get Firefox, click here.
To get Greasemonkey Addon for Firefox, click here.
Alright, now that basics are out of the way, here are the top Greasemonkey scripts for Google Analytics (in no particular order):
1) Social Media Metrics For Google Analytics
Google Analytics shows many valuable stats for webmasters to see how well their site is doing. But, it doesn’t show many other metrics that are valuable in this Web 2.0 world, namely, social media metrics. Now you can see how many Diggs, Sphinns, Mixx Votes, Reddit Points, StumbleUpon reviews, Del.icio.us saves, and Yahoo inlinks. This is a valuable tool, and much easier to digg into your individual pages, in order to see how many backlinks you have for each of your internal pages.
To download the Social Media Metrics for Google Analytics, click here.
2) Keyword Trends in Google Analytics
When doing niche marketing, the goal is to rise to the top of the search engines for certain keywords. Do you want to be able to know when you’ve rose higher in the search engines for the keywords you’re targeting and therefore getting more traffic? Well, with the Keyword Trends in Google Analytics Greasemonkey script, you can! It shows you the Keywords that have received 20% higher traffic over the last week. It also shows you which ones have dropped. This can be greatly valuable for finding keywords that you weren’t targetting, that you’re receiving traffic for. That way, you can optimize for those terms, and get even more traffic! This plugin also shows you an increase in visits from referring sites too.
To download Keyword Trends in Google Analytics, click here.
3) Auto Access Google Analytics
Recently, Google made it quicker to access Google Analytics, not requiring you to login for Analytics specifically, if you are already logged into your Google account. All you have to do is press a blue button that says “Access Analytics.” Well, they say, “Time is money,” so to speed up your time when viewing Google Analytics, here is an awesome Greasemonkey script for Google Analytics that will automatically press that button for you, saving you some time and hand movements. It may not save too much time, but for the Analytics freak who accesses their web analytics many times a day, this can save a lot of time.
To download Auto Access Google Analytics, click here.
Those are some very valuable niche marketing tools, but here is a Firefox addon that compiles these scripts and others to increase your Google Analytics experience:
Better Google Analytics Addon
It includes #’s 1 and 3 above, plus other scripts that may be useful for the internet marketer.
To get this Firefox addon, click here.
Let me know what you think of these plugins! Also, are there any other valuable tools you can think of for Google Analytics? Let me know, and I can include it here or in a new post, and I’ll give you a backlink to your site for your help!
