Recently, I have been receiving messages from people I follow thanking me for following them and then encouraging me to visit their website.  I was wondering how this is achieved, then I found TweetLater.  A neat little application that allows you to schedule your tweets, for when you’re busy, and allows you to automatically follow those who follow you.

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Twitter is a fantastic tool.  Twitter has been described as a micro blogging tool, but what does it mean and how can you use it?

With Twitter, you connect to a wider International community by sending, and reading, 140  character text messages.  The question that your Twitter interface generally asks is “What are you doing now?”  Take that question and respond with imagination.

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Twitter is probably my favourite communication tool. It is a social tool and is allows me to communicate with a wide group of friends, across the world. Even the 140 character limit for tweets doesn’t faze me, I have learned how to be succinct!

Today, I learnt of another tool in the Twitter tool kit that allows you to track a conversation about a particular topic. With all the conversations going on across Twitter, it can be hard to keep up with a conversation on one particular topic. By adding a hash tag (#name) to your Tweet, you can use Twemes.com to track the conversation, no longer how it goes for.
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On April 29, I reported that just using Twitter as a mechanism to increase your blogs rankings in the Search Engines wasn’t going to work, simply because the Twitter links are marked “No Follow”.

So, to continue my SEO experiment, I left my blog running and turned on pinging services. The results are far more interesting.
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Here I am at about 2 weeks into my “great Twitter SEO experiment”. My summary so far is that whilst Twitter does provide extra Blog readers, the SEO effects of increasing link ranking in the Search Engines does not happen.

To recap, I want to test the effect of using Twitter to get my blog “to the top” in Google. I chose to use a new site (http://mygiveawayevent.com/blog) as my testing ground, turned off all pinging from the site and just used Twitterfeed to get my message out.
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Whilst it sounds like a cool song title, it isn’t. Are you risking a “google slap” for practicing bad social techniques?

Well, it must be Digg week! Imagine that. I logged in this morning and found this great Forum article on Social Authority Central by Chris Lang detailing an experiment he has been conducting with Digg. Full details of that article can be found here.

However, let me summarise what I can here.
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Today, I set up my new blog to test the effect of Twitter on Search Engine Rankings.

Just a quick recap - there has been discussion amongst a group of colleagues that suggests that Tweeting your links will help raise their rank in Googles Search Engine. This is on the premise that your Tweet (which contains your URL) will appear on all of your followers status pages, the more links to your site, the higher your Search Engine Ranking. Read the rest of this entry »

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A few days ago, I asked the question ” Is Twitter A SEO Tool?” and concluded that the Jury was probably out.

The question was again posed on the Women Internet Marketers Social Network they other day and, as part of that discussion, we decided to test the premise.
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