Using Twitter

I have recently started using twitter on a regular basis. I registered with the site about 6 months ago but never really got into using it.

A few weeks ago I went back to it to see what all of the fuss was about. I started adding more friends and a few different other users such as The Guardian and the BBC. I'm sure that these sites have noticed the same thing as me, that the site is a really effective method of generating traffic.

It seems a bit geeky logging in to a website which is no more than a glorified facebook status, but it is quite addictive. Adding the news sites makes the site act like a little Google Reader giving tiny 140 character bite size nuggets of info. You can quickly catch up on what's kicking off around the world.

Twitter also allows me to keep tabs on my new SEO best friend Edward Lewis, so what more reason do I need to keep going back?

Propeller has had a facelift

It's all kicking off this week.. It seems like lots of sites are revamping for the summer.

Facebook is at it..

Metafocus have launched our new Global Internet Marketing site..

and now Propeller has done it too..

One thing I noticed though, the new Propeller logo looks very similar to the Allan & Heath X:ONE logo



One of these logos is for a world class dj mixer, the other one is for a website that isnt quite as good as digg :)

Google Alerts for SEO

One online tool I have recently started using much more is Google Alerts. It is an automated system that emails you when it discovers new online material relating to your alert criteria.

Currently there are 6 different Google Alert types available: Comprehensive, News, Web, Blogs, Video, Groups and Comprehensive. These relate to the different search options available in Google.

The alerts are designed to be set up for keywords, but I have started using them for urls. This is quite a handy trick for anyone who works on a site’s SEO. The Google alert lets you keep tabs on any developments to your web pages – It is very handy when you find out where and when people have linked to them, very important if you are building links into the site. A friend on the David Castle SEO forum also suggested that the Google Alert technique could be used to help get new web pages or new domains listed in the search results.

I currently have lots of Alerts running. I have quite a range of different types and keywords. Examples of these include: a comprehensive alert on my SEO Nottingham blog url, and several of our clients keywords such as “luxury bed and breakfast” “hellebores” or “global online marketing”

Give them a try, keep up to date with your competitors and stay up to date with changes to your keywords and urls.

Making Money on the Internet.. Update

Well.. it's been a few weeks and I am fast approaching my deadline of the end of July to come up with some big suggestions.

I have managed a few ideas. I have registered a new domain for a Beaver Castle site I am going to create. At the moment I am working on the site design and also writing some content.

The Beaver Castle domain was only registered a few weeks ago, but it is already ranking quite well in Google for its main keyword. It's quite suprising, the site is ranked in the top 10 Google results in the space of a few days, with no inbound links (the above link is the first one!) and very little content on the page - just shows the importance that the domain name plays in a website's SEO.

Overall its been a fairly productive few weeks. I have got a few more ideas in the pipeline which will hopefully work out quite well.. On a plus note, I have also made £7 selling bits and bobs on ebay :)