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How To Use Twitter as Marketing Tool For Local Businesses

  » Local Businesses


When using search.twitter.com add a location filter to search for tweets near your location. for example near:NYC within:15mi would return tweets within 15 miles of New York City. You can also use Zipcodes.

Tip Credibility: 6


submitted by 10minuteexpert 2009-07-19 09:35:25 pm    

How To Get Free Traffic To Your Website

  » Business & Finance


Create a wordpress blog and post regularly. It will automatically ping the blog search engines. Add socialize and twitter plugins to automatically update Twitter and provide easy sharing of pages. Add links back to your main site for help with SEO.

Tip Credibility: 6


submitted by 10minuteexpert 2009-07-19 09:35:46 am    

Article marketing strategies for more traffic

  » Computers & Internet


Use a Tool Like Market Samuari to find keyword phrases that get high traffic and low competition. Optimize your article for that phrase. If it becomes popular, you may dominate the phrase with links back to your site.

Tip Credibility: 4


submitted by 10minuteexpert 2009-07-19 09:32:57 am    

Quickest Way to Get Your New Blog Indexed

  » Computers & Internet


If it is a wordpress blog, download a Google Sitemap Plugin and register your Google Sitemap with Google Webmaster Tools. It will keep the bots visiting new posts.

Tip Credibility: 5


submitted by 10minuteexpert 2009-07-19 09:30:04 am    

How To Drive Traffic Using Twitter

  » Computers & Internet


use sevices like tweetlater.com or hootsuite.com to scedule tweets throughout the day and catch people from different time zones.

Tip Credibility: 6


submitted by 10minuteexpert 2009-07-18 11:59:39 pm    

How to use Twitter to promote your business

  » Computers & Internet


I recommend a ratio of 10:1 valuable links to promotional links. It seems to work very well for me.

Tip Credibility: 4


submitted by 10minuteexpert 2009-07-18 11:56:45 pm    

How to find a good domain name for your website ?

  » Computers & Internet


Getting your keywords in your domain is important for good SEO. I use Market Samurai to analyize keywords for low competition and high search volume. I then look for available domains with the keywords in them.

Tip Credibility: 4


submitted by 10minuteexpert 2009-07-18 11:19:06 pm    

Backup, Backup & Backup Some More

  » Computers & Internet


Back up your information to offsite backups to protect yourself if there is a fire. You can also back up information to DVDS for quick restores.

Tip Credibility: 4


submitted by 10minuteexpert 2009-07-18 11:16:36 pm    

Building Credibility in Social Media

  » Computers & Internet


Provide links to valuable information. Search on topics you know and look for people asking questions you can answer. Respond to questions from your followers and friends.

Tip Credibility: 4


submitted by 10minuteexpert 2009-07-18 11:14:17 pm    

How To Use Tip Drop

  » Games & Recreation


If you have a spelling error. Copy the text of the posted tip, delete it, paste text and repost it to fix.

Tip Credibility: 9


submitted by 10minuteexpert 2009-07-18 11:07:57 pm    

What are some Keyword Research Tips

  » Business & Finance


Market Samurai lets you start with a base keyword and eaily create a list of keywords. It will then analyize them for search traffic and competition. You will quickly have a very useful list of keywords.

Tip Credibility: 4


submitted by 10minuteexpert 2009-07-18 11:02:01 pm    

Beware! TipDrop Is Addictive.

  » Computers & Internet


TipDrop is great. It will become a valuable tool for searching for Answers. I wish I had thought of it. I guess Twitter will not occupy all my time anymore.

Tip Credibility: 5


submitted by 10minuteexpert 2009-07-18 10:59:05 pm    

How To Make Money With Private Label Rights

  » Computers & Internet


Search for the title of the product and examine your competition. Make your sales letter unique and make sure you offer bonuses that are better then your competition.

Tip Credibility: 4


submitted by 10minuteexpert 2009-07-18 10:50:34 pm    

How to rank well in the search engines for local search

  » Local Businesses


If your company services certain cities, then lists the cites near the footer of every pages. If the page is about gas leaks, this will help it rank for city name gas leaks.

Tip Credibility: 4


submitted by 10minuteexpert 2009-07-18 10:42:29 pm    

Top Free Productivity Tools

  » Computers & Internet


For Keyword Research, Site Ranking Monitoring and other SEO Tasks, I highly recommend marketsamurai.com. It will save you tons of time and give great analysis of your competitors.

Tip Credibility: 4


submitted by 10minuteexpert 2009-07-18 10:36:23 pm    

How to get people to link to your web page.

  » Computers & Internet


Provide easy social network links on your page using services like addthis.com to make the page easy to share.

Tip Credibility: 0


submitted by 10minuteexpert 2009-07-18 10:30:53 pm    


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