Let’s summarize.

• Twitter is a social networking tool you can use to connect with friends, customers
or prospects.
• Twitter is loved by Google because it’s nothing but fresh content.
• The individual tweets (posts) are 140 characters or less including spaces which
forces you to think about what you say.
• The words and phrases in your tweet is how it is indexed.
• Your tweets and followers help build backlinks to your Twitter page.
• Your Twitter page has an RSS Feed that can be marketed like any other Web 2.0
property.
• Your Twitter RSS feed can be added to many social media services and Feed
Readers such as Google Reader.
• Twitter can help you in business if used correctly BUT it can also get you in
trouble if you post a tweet that isn’t well thought out.
• Tweets a public and searchable by ANYONE so be very aware that you are
posting to the entire web and not just a single person.

Your Twitter page’s RSS Feed can be marketed by RSS Power Plus Pro if you have your
own domain and web hosting account. This server side script will take any RSS Feed you
give it and submit it to 20 different RSS aggregators. Imagine submitting your Twitter
RSS Feed to 20 RSS aggregator services with a single click. Note: These services ARE
delivering targeted traffic to my pages just like the search engines.

The links below are for videos that give you the basics of setting up Google Reader and
FriendFeed. I’ve included them here because you can import the RSS Feeds from anyone
you are following into either service and browse the tweets at YOUR leisure.

=>Get A Google Account
=>Using Google Reader
=>The Google Reader Secret
=>Google Reader Tips and Tweaks
=>Getting Started with FriendFeed
=>Tips for using FriendFeed

Twitter and SEO
Twitter is a social networking tool that lets you build a list of contacts you can interact
with in real time but it isn’t meant to be used like an instant messenger.

There are several features of Twitter that a smart person will use to their advantage for
marketing and a few of these are:

• Your tweets are added to your main Twitter profile page for visitors to see.
• Your tweets are indexed individually according to the content in each tweet.
Example: The exact match phrase ”noble samurai” returned approximately
10,400 results and a tweet is sitting in position 14 out of the results. I’ve seen
tweets in the SERPs that are actual testimonials to friends about products or
services.
• Your Twitter page has an RSS Feed that can be added to feed readers and RSS
Aggregators.
• Your Twitter page has an RSS Feed that can be promoted like any other Web 2.0
property.
• Your tweets are often indexed by Google in a matter of minutes.
• Your indexed tweets and followers help build the PageRank of your Twitter page
with their inbound links. Example: The Twitter page for Dr. Ron Capps who
wrote 5 Secret Steps To Twitter Success is http://twitter.com/nicheprof and it has
a Google PageRank of 4. if that rank doesn’t tell you this man understands the
power of Twitter and social media in general, I don’t know what will.
• The keyword phrases used in each tweet MAY lead people back to your Twitter
profile which has a link to your website.
• If you use the keywords you are targeting with that Twitter account in your bio,
you are making it easier to be found by anyone using the Twitter search engine to
find new contacts associated with a specific word or phrase.
• You can import your Twitter RSS Feed into your Facebook account, your
FriendFeed account and similar social networking services. Each of these services
has a different audiences, different friends of friends, different indexing in search
engines and different internal search engines so your tweets can have a far wider
reach than just your Twitter followers.
• Each of the social networking services mentioned above gets indexed by the
search engines. Some of them use the ’nofollow’ tag which means the site doesn’t
want any link juice (PageRank) passed to you. This belief may or may not be true
but that’s irrelevant because the link has traffic generation potential from all
search engines and authority is built in some, if not all, of them.
• If you use Aweber for your mailing lists, you can set broadcast messages you
send to be saved as an HTML page, sent as an RSS Feed and posted to your
Twitter account. (Imagine all of the different ways this information can now be accessed besides email AND the number of people that haven’t opted in for email delivery that can read your messages.)
• There are widgets and plugins that let you import you tweets into web pages and
blogs which means a steady stream of fresh content and relationship building if
used correctly. Example: No More Stinky Smoke uses a widget you can create in
Twitter to add to static pages.
• There are WordPress plugins that will automatically take your tweets and publish
them as pages or posts on your blog. Example: The ArticlesBin Blog uses a
plugin to automatically turn tweets into posts.

Twitter Traffic Secrets and Tips Revealed….http://twittersecrets.blogspot.com/2009/03/free-twitter-training-guides-and-videos.html

If you would like to know more about TweetDeck then please contact Iain Dodsworth:

email: hello at tweetdeck dot com
twitter: @TweetDeck
blog: http://tweetdeck.posterous.com/
feedback: TweetDeck feedback

What does it do?

In recent months there has been an explosion in social media with hundreds of services offering an abundance of information to the masses. Tweetdeck is a realtime application that allows users to monitor that information in a single concise view. Tweetdeck currently integrates services from Twitter, Twitscoop, 12seconds, Stocktwits and integrates functionality from a host of other services.

Anybody using Twitter will discover the mass of tweets can be somewhat overwhelming and difficult to digest. Tweetdeck enables users to split their main Twitter feed (All Friends) into columns allowing a broader overview of tweets.

But at the heart of Tweedeck, is it’s ability to group people together and search across the twittersphere. Grouping friends or work colleagues separately means you have a window on all aspects of your twitter life. Searching across the twittersphere means you can monitor any subject within Twitter. These additional columns automatically update so providing the user with a very effective dashboard of realtime information.