No one knows how Google plans to do this, what rules they will use, and if they have some sort of an authority model worked out (I can’t see how they could), but you need to get on it now. I predict that Tweets will be similar to blog posts being indexed in the main index. They will pop up quickly but have a really short shelf life. Just a hunch.

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I ran across a social network a while back that was interesting. The premise was the degrees of separation. You would find a person you wanted to talk to, then the site would figure out who you knew and who they knew that could get you to the person you wanted to speak to. The idea is good, but uploading my address book is not going to happen, ever, and it also would require a lot of other big-time people doing the same, so its not going to go anywhere.

Back to linked in. There is a bar that shows how close you are to completing your profile, I have been sitting at 90% for about a year. I finally decided to get to 100%. In my research to find out what I was missing, I stumbled on part of linkedin that I had not paid much attention to up until recently: the answers section. Linkedin has a section where you can ask a question for any industry and other members will answer them. You can also place links with your answer (hint hint) and a private note to the person who asked the question. I started flipping through the questions and saw quite a few that I knew the answer to. So, I answered one. Then, I answered another. Pretty soon, 2 hours had gone by and I had answered 15 or so questions. I was reading the answers from other users and I was impressed by the knowledge and helpfulness of the community. Very nice people, smart, and helpful.

This morning I logged and and there were a bunch of messages in my inbox. Most of the people who had asked the questions that I answered had written me personal notes. I also got a couple requests to join their networks, which if you recall opens up their contacts to me. Good deal.

Once again, no one likes a know-it-all but it works in some places. Never miss an opportunity to get your name out there and links to your site. Confirming that you are one of the smartest people in the room doesn’t hurt either.

Make sure you add me as a connection!

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Twitter ettiquette says that you should follow people who follow you. With that in mind, the reasonable things to do would be to run out and start following people with the expectation that they are going to return the favor. Maybe they will, but in most cases – if they do, who really cares? Just because someone is following you does not mean that you are on their radar.

I am still having a really hard time coming to terms that Twitter is an effective marketing tool for ‘everyone’. I can see in certain circumstances where a direct line to someones ear would be a good thing, but you need to be realistic about yourself. Are you interesting? Do people tend to ask questions when you tell a story or do they just glaze over?

If you listen to the internet marketing gurus like Perry Belcher, you can create a million dollar empire overnight with a Twitter account and an internet connection at Starbucks. What Perry doesn’t make a big of is that he has a list of millions of people, so when he sends out an email telling people to follow him on Twitter, they will. They would probably cut their thumbs off if he said it was going to be an ‘over night cash machine’. I’m rambling.

I don’t know enough about Twitter to tell you how to use it effectively for business, which is actually a good thing. Because even without knowing much about it, I do know how to get followers and I will share it with you. Here it is. Tweet. I have set up my content hub to automatically post to Twitter whenever I make a blog post. I haven’t been posting about Twitter, I haven’t really even posted anything that interesting, but every time I do post, my Twitter account is notified and a link to my post is sent out. Every time I do this, I pick up 5 followers almost immediately.

My last couple posts have been about affiliate marketing and about my love affair with SENuke, nothing special. It’s clear that the Twittersphere is full of marketers who are searching for keywords and automatically following the author. What does this mean? Nothing. They are following me in hopes that I will return the favor and follow them, and I do, but they aren’t reading what I am writing. They are just taking a gamble that I am going to read what they are Tweeting about and that I will visit their site and buy their product, and I won’t. I don’t read other peoples tweets and in most cases people don’t read mine. Essentially what you have is a giant room filled with people, all talking at once, to no one. Occasionally there will be someone interesting but in general I find that the only people I actually pay attention to are people who I have actively gone looking for. Courtney Love is a good example, her Twitter account is like watching a car crash in slow motion. Its interesting in a really morbid way.

Twitter, to me, is the obvious electronic culmination of our innate narcissism. We are our own biggest fans. But Twitter is also necessary. Twitter is the beginning of true real time search, the new breed of search engines are pulling data in real time and using it to determine search importance. Spammers are already figuring out how to game it like we used to game lycos in the late 90’s. Twitter is a place that you need to be, even if you don’t know why. Again, rambling.

So now you’re sitting in front of your Twitter acccount, feeling obliged to write something but don’t know what to Tweet about. Let me give you a few very basic pointers to get you on your way. And as simple as these seem, people are charging for this information.

1. Customize your profile. Make sure you at the very least add a picture of yourself. Fill out your profile, be compelling, be interesting. Don’t be overly salesy

2. Don’t pollute your tweets with a bunch of garbage, if you do happen to make a Tweet thats interesting, people will see the rest of your tweets about your cat and they won’t follow you. Keep in mind that the people who do actually read what other people are tweeting about are following hundreds, maybe thousands of people, they don’t have time to sift through garbage.

3. Check out some of the applications like Tweetdeck for following your favorite people

4. Make sure that you include keywords in your tweets that pertain to your business. Those are going to be what put your Tweets up on people radar.

5. Make sure before you follow someone that is following you that you check out their follow vs followers, if they are following 50,000 people and have 100 followers, it’s a spammer.

6. If the profile of the person following you has a picture of a girl in a bikini – block them, it’s spam. Think about it.

7. Do not try to sell you services in 140 characters. EVER. Twitter is about news and opinions, don’t even try to recommend your own product anonymously – it won’t work. Use Twitter to show you are an intelligent, insightful person, that cares about improving the lives of other people.

8. Be funny. Legitimately. If you’re not funny then don’t try to be, but if you are witty, try to include it in your posts.

9. Be relevant. A good way to attract followers is to Tweet about things that are in the news RIGHT NOW.

10. Be open and honest. The one thing I do like about Twitter is that it mimics life and the thought process really well. Remember that first impressions mean everything. When you meet someone you can usually tell if you like them in a 140 characters or less right? It’s the same online.

10.5 ( I really want a clean 10 things list but this just popped into my head) don’t have someone else Tweet for you. It’s OK to have someone represent your business, but not you.

I hope you got something out of this post. I actually didn’t write it for you, I really wrote it to get more followers on Twitter. I think I mentioned the keywords that I wanted enough times. This should be good for another 5 or 10 followers who are never going to read what I have to say, and I plan to return the favor.

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There is a very simple formula to getting your site indexed and SENuke takes care of 90% of it. When I was working for Starkmedia, I was not given any staff. I was running the search marketing department which included paid and organic. The fact that I didn’t have any help still baffles me. I was in control of 30 or so websites, a few of which were big time (Briggs and Stratton power products) and I was expected to handle off site promotion by hand.  If creating a link on a journal site or social network takes 10 – 15 minutes, well, you do the math.

I paid for a couple pieces of software out of my own pocket simply to make my job easier. SENuke was and is my #1 goto solution. SENuke will allow you to create accounts on Gmail, Yahoo, MSN, 30 social networks, 12 video sharing sites, 50 social bookmarking sites, 20 RSS sites, and now will even create 200 high PR backlinks! It will spin content, and keeps track of everything in its own database. SENuke is hands down the MOST POWERFUL MARKETING TOOL AVAILABLE. The name SENuke is unfortunate because it has a real spammy sound to it, but thats not what the purpose it. I suppose you could use it for that, and I’m sure some do, but you can use it to do the work of 10 people.

I tell people that there are 3 tools that I pay for every month and will continue to do so for as long as I am in this business. SENuke is one of them. You can get a fully functional trial version of it, no credit card needed. The guys who make it know that if you use it for a week, it will become absolutely necessary. If you are thinking of starting an online marketing business, you could do it with this one piece of software. It does so much more, but I am on my way to a cooking demo so I will end it here. Make sure you check out SENuke, download the FREE trial and see for yourself. You will thank me later.

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I could tell by the name of the company that it was from an affiliate program for dating a dating site. I haven’t done any affiliate marketing in a couple years so I had no clue where it would have come from.

I looked up the number of the company that issued the check and called them up. The referral was from a webmaster referral to an online dating site called Fling.com (don’t click the link if you are offended by nudity). I dug up my old login for the webmaster program, www.HugeTraffic.com, and logged in. Sure enough I had a webmaster sign up and go active (sent a signup) last month. That’s $200 for me.

Getting links in front of webmasters is no easy feat. It’s really competitive, however somehow someone stumbled on a link that I had put up somewhere and signed up.

The lesson here is that you should always be putting links up. They might not do something now, maybe not next week. In fact if you don’t have any traffic and you start making pages then furiously checking stats you will probably be disappointed, but if you place a link up anywhere you can, whenever you can, you will definitely have a repeat of my experience today.

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As far as uptime, I can’t complain – too much. Unfortunately the fastest DSL connection I can get is 6mbs, which is not bad. I would prefer the 16mbs of U-VERSE but I can’t get U-VERSE in my building. My new connection goes from .5 mbs to 5mbs like a car running out of gas. I’ve never seen it hit 6mbs, ever.

I recently moved into a new apartment that is about 150 feet away from my old apartment. Moving sucks, and there are some things that we know we are going to struggle with but I thought that transfering my DSL would be relatively painless. I put it off until the last minute which was dumb, but it really is a matter of flipping a switch. Don’t let them tell you otherwise.

I called ATT and got someone on the phone, she told me that they cannot transfer the service, instead they have to cancel my current service, then set up new service and this would take A WEEK!. They made it sound like there was more to it, like someone would have to come out to the building. They asked if there was an alarm or a dog. I knew that no one was coming but I answered the questions. I was annoyed at having to wait a week but I shouldn’t have put it off, so my fault. The woman told me she would have to put in an order to cancel my current service and set up new service, ok fine. This particular day I had forgotten my credit card. She told me that we couldn’t continue. I asked if she could put my order on hold while I ran up to get my credit card. She of course said no. I asked for her name or number, she said no, I offered a couple other options, no , no, no. OK. I’ll call back.

I called my girlfriend and got my credit card number then I called ATT back. This time I got a woman and I just KNEW by the tone of her voice that I was in for trouble. I should have just hung up, but I didn’t. I explained the situation to her and she said she saw that my current service had been canceled. I told her I knew I had to open a new order for service and that I needed a credit card which I now had. Then she started with the “ummms” and “aahhhhs”, which are the sound of someone who is lost on their computer. She put me on hold, in fact, she ended up putting me on hold 6 times (yes I counted). She then told me that I had a new order in but I would now have to wait 9 days!!! How did 3 days get added on in the course of 20 minutes??? Then I said “OK so do you need my credit card?” she said “ahhhh… No.. not right now.. there’s ummm.. well… its not giving me this code to ahh.. ” You get the point. She said that I would be contacted to provide a credit card number when the service started. We ended the call.

I had some coffee but couldn’t ignore this nagging feeling that something was wrong. I decided to call back. After wading through the obnoxious menu system with the voice recognition system that kept getting tripped by background noise, I got someone on the line. I told her that I had just signed up for service but I had a real suspicion that the last woman I spoke to didn’t know what she was doing. I wanted her to verify that I had an order. Guess what? No order. In fact no record of a phone call, just that my current service had been disconnected. My cork popped.

The coffee shop I was in was closing so I am on the phone, balancing my laptop with one hand, the phone in another, a coffee cup in my teeth, trying to pack up to get out. I apologized in advance for the reaming I was going to give this girl because of her co-workers. I was pissed, I had spent over an hour on the phone, my cell phone mind you (T-Mobile w/600 minutes). She did the obligatory apologies, but had no answer to my question of “what the hell is wrong with you people? why do you insist on making this so painful?”.. She kept saying she was sorry, and promised that my order was in and I would have my service in…….11 days..

Then the best question she could have ever asked.. “Would you be interested in signing up for cell phone service with us?”

The reason I decided to write this is because I am sitting in a Starbucks right now, they have wireless access for ATT customers, I tried to sign on.. Guess what? I don’t need to tell you – my login didnt work. SO 2 phone calls, totaling 26 minutes (on my cell phone) and I am finally online, no thanks to them.

I’m a big believer in testimonials. Word of mouth goes a long way. There are plenty of options for DSL in Milwaukee, I suggest you check them out.

If an ATT rep sees this and figures out that it would be a good idea to shut me up with some comped months of service, that wouldn’t be a bad idea.

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#1 link in Google for low hanging fruit is not only easily attainable, I can get it in under 30 minutes. Now a search phrase for neon sculptures in Milwaukee may seem like a silly phrase to you, but to a sculptor who makes things out of neon, this listing could be what determines if he gets to keep his lights on next month.

The yellow pages are dead, you have heard it before, and it’s true. Marketing your business, to your community is not difficult.  We can show you what to do, or do it for you.

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I don’t really know much about neon, so I can’t write with much authority. I know its glass tubing that is filled with electrically charged gas. I also know that its often used to make signs, especially beer signs.

If I had the pick of neon signs, I would take the sign that hangs in back of the stage of crazy girls in Hollywood.

Ok, well that about wraps up this post about neon sculptures. I should be able to get all the information I need from this post.

All I need to do is place one outgoing link to something about neon sculptures  in the post, and maybe a picture.

Thanks for popping by to check out my article about neon sculptures in Milwaukee . Time finished 9:51 am

UPDATE:

Google indexed and ranked at 10:08 a.m. The next time some SEO snake tells you that you should expect your site to rank in Google in 30 – 90 days, make sure you tell them you know a guy who can get it done in 20 minutes.

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