10 Mar 2010 10:30 pm
Twitter now has followers as well as lists. We might have came across profiles having many followers and few lists. I would measure a twitter user strength based on the list. Many lists someone is on will prove that much more useful the person's tweets are rather than looking into the follower count. The twitter lists are more influencial because the lists are places where there is active participations. A list with people would probably get more listeners than the usual followers. The follower count can be increased while the list count comes when someone adds us to his/her list of a selected list of followers.I have recently came across a structure on how twitter will weight the list.
The above structure shows that list can be as effective just like sitelinks of a website which is an authority measure of that particular website in search engine. What are you thoughts about Twitter lits ? Please share you thoughts as comments or get in touch with me through my twitter.
01 Mar 2010 01:17 pm
There had been lot of buzz in the internet world as Google started their new Google Buzz service. There was lot of negativity spread regarding the new Google service. Gmail Buzz privacy was one among then. The latest news is that Google started to index real time updates from myspace as well as Google Buzz.
Twitter has recently started to use no follow attribute to links that are being tweeted. Many famous twitter users including Andy Beard has joined Google Buzz. This is a quick change fromTwitter and it seems to be a bad decision as well. The no follow will make the tweets hard to get indexed and the tweets which get indexed will be lost very soon.Andy Beard has written a post on Twitter Alzheimers.I have also started my own Google Buzz as I feel that this is the right time to join Google Buzz.You can now follow me on my Google Buzz account along with my twitter account. Hope this will help my real time updates get saved in such a way that I can refer them back whenever I need them.
07 Feb 2010 08:56 pm
A lot of rumours are being displayed in real time search results due to the real time search integration to search engine results. The false information are being promoted virally through twitter and other real time social media. How search engines would prevent this type of false information being displayed on their real time search results is not yet clear.
Search Engine's should come up with a new technology like Page Rank which I do like to call as Social Rank. The tweets that come online at real time in search engines should be based on the Social Rank. The social rank of each profile must be based on the credibility of the users social presence and interaction.
I hope that this way we can really get the correct news at the right time. Real time search should provide the correct news not just the real time data which might be false information.
In the morning on feburary 3rd, 2010 TV channels created a flutter airing incorrect information about the death of popular movie star in malaylam and it was tweeted virally. The real time search started showing the false information. At 1pm the channels said they regretted airing the false news but within this time the news had virally reached to thousands of people around the world.
The TCS hack was in the real time search results today. The website was hacked by a french hacker according to relevant sources and the domain was put to sale.
Real time search have its own merits as well as demerits like any other technology. Search Engines needs to ensure that they start measuring the Social Rank of each profile rather than the Page Rank which seems to be an irrelevant source to measure credibility.
Do you think Search Engines should measure Social Rank? Tell us what you think
18 Jan 2010 10:53 am
Matt Cutts have given the answer on how Google will rate the links from Facebook and Twitter. Here is the question that was asked to Matt Cutts "Links from relevant and important sites have always been a great way to get traffic & acceptance for a website. How do you rate links from new platforms like Twitter, FB to a website?". Matt says that Google will treat the links in the same manner whether it is from Facebook or Twitter, as if they were from any other site. The PageRank formula applies to all. The most important factor that is taken into PageRank is the reputation of the backlinks rather than the number of backlinks. Yes, quality really matters not the quantity. You must get your backlinks from relavant resources which have high reputation. Google will use a similar method to rank the tweets.
The links might still take time to pass PageRank as facebook has lot of private profile and links from this profiles will not get crawled by the search engines. The links from twitter are nofollow as of now. This doesn't mean that search engines will not consider the links at all. All the tweets are getting crawled and some tweets are even getting ranked. There are chances that the microlinks will pass relavant information to the search engines. The response of Matt Cutts is what most of the SEO's and Webmasters were expecting but now it is straight from the expert's mouth and we do have to take it into our strategy. We need to think whether to use a uncrawled platform or a nofollow platform.
Facebook has now come up with a feature similar to retweet. The feature is called "share". This seems to be Facebook's answer to Twitter's "retweet". This will help facebook to emerge as a platform where content can be shared and viral marketing can be made use of just like Twitter. Twitter feature of lists as well as upcoming feature of Contributors will make twitter a strong platform to market content on the web through social media. Google have already started ranking twitter lists just like tweets.There will be more improved features coming in the social media as the competition between Facebook and Twitter grows.
15 Jan 2010 12:02 am
The are lot of speculations going on in the SEO world. There have been a lot of predictions for 2010. The big question now is will the microlinks gain importance in the eyes of Search Engines ?. Blogging has changed from Megablogging to Microblogging. Twitter and Plurk are the most famous microblogging sites. While twitter has build up a strong presence in the Internet social media world, plurk has build a strong presence among Asia social media users especially users from Taiwan. My answer to the question is that there is high chance that Google starts giving more weightage to twitter microlinks as Google has already started to track the real time mentions. They have started showing the title as well as homepage of the website that is tweeted as microlink using bit.ly or using URL's shortened by other microlinking websites.This is a great sign that the tweets might pass some significant data that might be taken into consideration while search engines compute SERP changes.
Now the most important question comes up as how Google will determine which tweets are more relavant and which are not that relavant?. I would have to say that Google will use a similar meterics which they have been using for website relavance. Google has been using a concept like a webpage becomes important as more and more external webpages links of which more authority webpages are giving the links which have more number of backlinks. The same principal might be applied in the case of twitter profile. A twitter profile will get more authority if a lot of twitter profiles link to the particular twitter profile of which some of them are most famous twitter who have lot of followers and who follow a few. This will really make search engine conisered the twitter profile as a priorirty one and the tweets will get more importance.
Here is supporting view.
"One user following another in social media is analogous to one page linking to another on the Web. Both are a form of recommendation,” Singhal says. “As high-quality pages link to another page on the Web, the quality of the linked-to page goes up. Likewise, in social media, as established users follow another user, the quality of the followed user goes up as well". Read more here
14 Jan 2010 09:28 am
The battle between search engines and social media websites to dominate the most visited sector of Internet have started long back. The battle now seems to be more strong as Facebook have been the most visited website in US during three days in December. Facebook have overtaken search engine gaint Google and achieved this visitors stastics in US. Will this be a holiday trend or will this become a global trend ?. The days are Christmas day eve, Christmas day and New Years Eve. The information has been published on Hitwise US Twitter account. This trend of facebook trafficcould attract some US advertisers to facebook. The US visits to Twitter have increased 4% in December 2009 as compared to November 2009. This is a strong indication that Social Media websites are emerging as a competitor to Search Engine.
The top searched term in 2009 was "Facebook" as per Hitwise Information. This gives Facebook a competitive edge ahead of the other social media gaints to compete against the search engines. Facebook has moved 10 position as compared to previous year to gain the position of top searched word in 2009.
The growth of Facebook has made advertisers to think on moving their ads to Facebook as well. This will certainly make facebook to gain some dollars through the ad medium. Facebook offers lot of options for advertisers. Advertisers can target their audience based on age,sex as well as location. This will facebook a slight positive edge ahead of Google. Google is still the strongest search engine but they now have a strong competitor from the social media. Facebook can grow into a much powerful social media if they uses the strategy in the correct manner.Andy Atkins-Krüger CEO of WebCertain points out facts about facebook's chances of emerging as a real powerful social media website in the Global front in one of his latest post in Search Engine Land.
11 Jan 2010 08:27 am
Have you used Twitter recently? It is one of the fast rising social networks in the history of the internet, by creating lots of followers as friends and to market your business to your followers through mass messaging. There are now lots of Twitter softwares that can add you followers daily and also publishers and authors are writing their own Twitter method to make lots of money for the affiliates. But this is true guys. Twitter is really a big potential in the market today.
One of my friends suggested told me that we will start their own “Twitter”. So what shall we do in order to start our own “Twitter”? We’ll, as far as I understand, Twitter is considered itself as a microblog, but with an attitude. Microblogs are very easy to start with, because all you have to do is to send a message so that the world will see it, base on your niche. There is a basic way to start your own microblog, and you can do it by using WordPress.
They have a basic prologue theme which is a microblog type but in a simple design. It is not attractive, but a good practice for you. In order to be professional, we need to invest some money for the following:
- Domain name
- Web hosting
- Professional Twitter clone script
- Hire programmers
- Hire data entry people for SEO and content
I think it can be estimated up to $500 of investment, but I need a plan in order to come up with this business, and to do some serious SEO for our “Twitter” like site. There are lots of “Twitter” like sites already, but I just want this to become popular real soon, and anything can happen here which every investor or entrepreneur can make a difference, by being successful on their investment, especially on microblogs.
10 Jan 2010 12:33 am
The third annual crunchie award winners have been announced by Techcrunch. Here is the list of nominees and winners:
Best Technology Achievement:
Backblaze
Bing (Microsoft)
Chrome OS (Google) (Winner)
Google Wave
PuSH
Silverlight (Microsoft)
Best Internet Application:
Animoto
Dropbox (Winner)
Groupon
MOG All Access
Posterous
Yelp
Best Social App:
Aardvark
Brizzly
DailyBooth
Farmville(Winner)
SocialVibe
StockTwits
Best Bootstrapped StartUp:
atebits (Tweetie)
Shoes of Prey
Tinychat (Winner)
Wildfire Interactive
wizehive
Wufoo
Best Mobile Application:
foursquare (Winner)
Google Voice
Gowalla
Kindle for iPhone
Skies of Glory
Tonchidot
Best International:
Amiando
Jolicloud
Playfish
Spotify (Winner)
TweetDeck
vente-privee.com
Best Time Sink Application:
Canabalt
Civilization Revolution (iPhone)
DailyBooth (Winner)
I Am T-Pain
Pandora
Zoosk
Best Design:
Animoto (Winner)
Brizzly
Chrome (Google)
Clicker
Facebook Mobile
Threadsy
Best Enterprise:
Amazon Web Services
Atlassian
Azure (Microsoft)
Chatter (Salesforce)
Google Docs/Office (Winner)
Yext
Best CleanTech:
CalStar Products
Locust Storage
Picarro
Sappphire Energy
Sun Run (Winner)
Tendril
Best New Gadget:
Apple Magic Mouse
Barnes & Noble nook (Winner)
litl webbookMotorola Droid
Sonos S5
Zune HD
Best Tech PR:
Brew Media Relations
LaunchSquad
OutCast Communications
PerkettPR
Spark (Winner)
SutherlandGold Group
Best Angel:
Betaworks
Chris Sacca (Lowercase Capital)
Jeff Clavier (SoftTechVC)
Ron Conway (SV Angel) (Winner)
Y-Combinator
Yossi Vardi
Best VC Firm:
Accel Partners (Winner)
Charles River Ventures
Benchmark Capital
Greylock Partners
Sequoia Capital
True Ventures
Union Square Ventures
Founder Of The Year:
Aaron Patzer (Mint) (Winner)
Elon Musk (Tesla)
Jack Dorsey (Square)
Jeremy Stoppelman & Russ Simmons (Yelp)
John Borthwick (Betaworks)
Omar Hamoui (AdMob)
CEO Of The Year:
Josh Silverman (Skype)
Marc Benioff (Salesforce)
Mark Pincus (Zynga) (Winner)
Neil Young (ngmoco)
Richard Rosenblatt (Demand Media)
Tony Hsieh (Zappos)
Best New Startup Or Product Of 2009:
Aardvark
Bing (Microsoft) (Winner)
Foursquare
Hunch
Milo
Spotify
Best Overall Startup Or Product Of 2009:
Android (Google)
Facebook (Winner)
LinkedIn
ngmoco
Twitter
Zynga
Source of Information : http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/08/crunchies-winner/
25 Dec 2009 09:26 pm
A lot of users right now are using Twitter nowadays. Now Twitter is one of the most popular social networking sites that has ever been used by an individual. Their objective is simple, as to follow users on their "tweets". Twitter has one question in mind which people has to answer, "What are you doing?". We have the freedom to post in the message board in any way like promoting your own business, products and services, affiliate programs, e-books and so much more. In Twitter, every time we post something and publish in their message board, they call it as "Tweet" in their own terms. Notice that there are others tweeting all the way they want, when you tweet your own, their tweets go down and you're on the top. Until you refresh it, you notice that your tweet is going down under till it's gone. But don't worry, your tweets are stored in your profile as well. If you're promoting something for yourself, you can shorten your link like bit.ly and tinyurl.com.
But what about the term "ReTweet"? What does it do for us? Retweet is a term which you tweet the same message all over again. It may come from other's blogs or website. This is truly applicable for both webmasters and bloggers like me. ReTweet is a HTML button that can be attached within your content. Let's say for example if you post a topic and want a ReTweet button, Google is your friend to search and copy the code in the first part of your content. Like we say Blogger, there's what we call "Edit HTML" and "Compose". You click the "Edit HTML" and you can see your content in HTML mode. It's very simple you know? After you publish the content, all you have to do is copy the link of your content alone, and replace the link part of your ReTweet HTML file to the link of your content, which will direct to Twitter and automatically saves your title of content which will be used automatically to "ReTweet" the message. Then, after you put the content of your link within the ReTweet HTML, you will copy paste it at the top of your body page in HTML mode....then you're ready to go. Your content is ready to "ReTweet" by millions of visitors if possible.
Don't "ReTweet" the homepage, and don't just stick to one "ReTweet" button. Instead every time you publish a blog post, always include a ReTweet HTML button, but the only difference is the link of your content which will be directed to Twitter and the visitor may login and automatically "ReTweet" your topic. This is one way of driving more traffic and backlinks to your blog, and potentially may increase your sales. Many of the bloggers are very successful and thankful for driving more traffic using the "ReTweet" button.
21 Dec 2009 02:45 am
Many of the Twitter users are just relying to softwares that will guarantee them to increase the number of followers in their account. I really don't know if they are true to their word that we indeed have increased our number of followers daily in our Twitter account. Unlike any other software that will guarantee you lots of Twitter followers and stable campaigning, there's one software that can easily be trusted, and it's good looking like no other. It is said to be one of the trusted software that has ever created by an individual. Most internet marketers are using this software to campaign their own affiliate links, CPA offers and other things that they want to promote in order to earn money from their programs. I'm talking about a cool software named Tweet Glide.
Tweet Glide, which was developed by Mike Filsaime, is a cool software that lets you advertise your own tweets with no need to open your internet browser. This is a software that you can actually monitor your own tweets, the latest tweets in your account and the direct messages being sent by your followers at the same time, all in one software.
Here's the screenshot of what the software looks like:
As you can see in each column:
Left Column: The latest tweets in your Twitter account at Home Page
1st Middle Column: Your sponsored tweets by the advertisers
2nd Middle Column: Your so-called @Mentions
Right Column: Direct messages from your Twitter followers
You can login your Twitter account directly using this tool or software. However, you can register for free as a basic member, but you can also upgrade to a premium member if you want to. But what are your benefits if you upgrade as a premium member?
1. Free 250 Paid Ads ($47 value)
2. 400 characters instead of just 140 when tweeting
3. Choose your own colored background to increase clicks on your ads
4. Add HTML when you tweet with your ads
5. Your URL could change color, either red or blue only to let them click your links
Tweet Glide is free to download and easy to install. It only needs Adobe Air to run your application in your desktop. Good thing is, if you have no Adobe Air, it was already in the package of the software you downloaded. When installed, they install Adobe Air automatically to your computer.
Try it guys! Tweet Glide is one of the best Twitter tool or software to increase your chances to make money through your affiliate links or CPA programs, as well as to drive more traffic and unique visitors.
