How to Use Twitter to Generate Traffic for Your Web Site

The use of social media to generate traffic is booming. Millions of webmasters are leveraging the potential of social networking websites to reach out to their niche consumers. One such marvelous social networking website is Twitter. It is a great website built to cater to the needs of internet users who want to keep a tab on everything that is of interest to them. All the commercial websites know the importance of social media. This is why they are using social media marketing as one of the SEO strategy to rank better in the search engines.

By now, you are already aware of Twitter’s power to increase traffic flow in a website, but for that you should know the procedure to do so. Here are some tips which you can use for your website’s traffic increment.

a) Concentrate on your profile: The first and foremost tip to get a good amount of traffic from Twitter is to have a complete and professional looking profile. Make an interesting biography for yourself. It is important to keep the biography within the word limit of 140 characters.

Online visitors will decide whether or not to follow you by reading the profile. The updates or tweets in this case should not go beyond 140 characters. This is why it is popularly referred to as a micro blogging website.
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Zerg Rush – Google’s New Easter Egg

Go to google.com and type in zerg rush and the letter O’s start attacking your page listings. Click as fast as you can and destroy those O’s before they take over your page.

How did you do? Do you have the highest score? Did you beat your peers? Post your score!

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Internet Marketing Tips

Small businesses have longed tried to compete with the bigger companies in the Internet marketing realm. How does one get noticed in the churning flow of information on the Internet?

Lawyers, restaurants, doctors, small construction companies, and many others are all working hard with Internet marketing just to be seen online.

What are some of the ways to help increase their overall outreach on social media and blogs? Let’s say you’re a plastic surgeon (since I have worked with them before), you can have your websites for medical practices created. You can hire a friend to help you with social media. You can follow some of my tips, or even do all three to reach your Internet marketing needs.

As a doctor it might be more difficult to create a buzz around your “brand or name”. I would likely tell a client to go after a new approach like starting a campaign based on a tshirt design such as:

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Top April Fools Sites – Google Multitask is Here

The web can be daunting and slow but now with Google Multitask you can use multiple cursors to get more done, faster.

Want to try it out yourself, go to Google Multitask

Go to the next page for more information on the site.

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Google Analytics Has a New Look

Client was all excited to learn that Google Analytics has real-time results now. Um, well, that’s actually been there for months, but was hard to find if you’re not a fluent and frequent Google Analytics user. There are other sites like ChartBeat that do the same thing, but it appear both have different numbers. One may be more advanced than the other (not sure which, as I don’t use either regularly). If you know or have used ChartBeat or similar service, which one, and why do you like it or not?

Now back to the new look:

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