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So you have done your keyword research and have written a killer post on your Blog, now what?  You wait for the search engines to find it.  After all, until the search engines smile on you and give you a high ranking position for your keyword of choice, very few people will see your article amidst the billions of articles posted every day.

Sure some of your fans will read it via their email subscription or their RSS subscription to your Blog feed, but you could count on them reading it anyway.  What you need is a world wide web submit site for a fast index.

You must be indexed.  Indexing occurs often on popular blogs because the search engines know those of you who post often with new, fresh, exciting content and those little index spiders will come back and crawl your site several times a day if you are an A-Blogger, whatever that is.

So what about a niche site that you care about because you have built a site around a very specific subject or product and you have optimized this site with advertisements or offers that you want to make money with?  You may only post to this niche site once a week or maybe once a month.  The spiders will find it eventually, but they are not hanging around outside your hosting portal just waiting for you to feed them with new digits.

So what do you do to call them in and say “Hey spiders, I’ve got some new awesome content!”  Well here is what I suggest.  You probably already have a Facebook (the biggest) and Twitter (the hottest) social network accounts, but what about having more than two dozen real popular social sites that you could post to all at once with just one button?

Well there is just such a magic button out there and it is free.  Ping.fm is my new best friend.  Go there now and get your free account and set it up with all of your social bookmarking sites of choice, and then when you write a post all you have to do is copy the title of the post and the url of your new article into the Ping.fm text box and hit “Ping It!”.  That’s all there is to it you have now announced to up to 30 social sites that you have new content.

I guarantee that the spiders that live at Google, Yahoo and Bing will be running across their webs to come to visit your new post.  You will be indexed almost immediately.  Now that’s what I call a fast index!

Sure it takes a little time to set up Ping.fm but it is worth the effort, I promise.  Here is a list of social sites that you can post to all with one push button; Twitter, Facebook, Ning, Tumblr, Brightkite, FriendFeed, hi5, Delicious, Diigo, Multiply, posterous, Facebook Pages, MySpace, Gtalk Status, AIM Status, LinkeIn, Identi.ca, Plurk, Jaiku, Blogger, Plaxo Pulse, Live Journal, Bebo, Xanga, WordPress.com, Custom URL, Friendster, Koomk, you are, Yammer, Flickr, Utterli, Seesmic, Laconi.ca, Present.ly, Vox, TypePad, ShoutEm, StreetMavens, Radar, MyYearbook, Photobucket, Tagged, MerchantCircle and Yahoo Meme.  This list changes from time to time and more are being added often.

What I do now is to keep Ping.fm open on a page of its own.  Then every time I post, I Ping.fm it.  Every time I comment on another Blog, I Ping.fm it.  Every time I create a back link somewhere on a directory or other website, I Ping.fm it.  Get the idea?  You want traffic?  You can’t handle the traffic that you will get with this web submit site!

Every business needs a Blog.  Period!

If you are a blogger you should also use Twitter.  Why?  Simple, it is the single easiest way to find birds of a feather.  You know that they fly together, right?

By using the Twitter search bar or better yet use the real Twitter search tool at search.twitter.com which will give you far better search metrics, you will be able to hone in on people (tweeple) in your niche of interest.

What this means is that you will be able to mix it up with like minded users that will either be selling something in your niche or interested in buying something in your niche.  Of course it probably runs 99% former and 1% latter, but either way there is a chance to create a buzz.

Personally I do not use the Direct Message (DM) feature because it is just 99% crap auto messages that say thanks for the follow, I am the best… blah, blah, blah.  DM’s totally useless.  I do use the @ mention feature a lot and the RT (retweet) of other messages of interest.  The RT also gives some link juice to the 1st twirp.

Twitter now has an RT symbol that they just introduced and for the life of me I see no use for it, but hey, who am I?  Needless to say Twitter is a great tool for connecting up with others and to promote your latest posts which of course say how great you are.

I check my stats often and every day there are at least some visitors that found my sites through Twitter.  Some is better than none.

Have you been experimenting with all the Twitter apps that come along?  Well I have tried many, not all of course because I do have a life after all.  When you try one and then you decide to not use it any more, then by all means go back and disable it.

I did not disable one app some where along the line and for the life of me I do not know which one it was because I could never find out, but one app that I had experimented with evidently auto followed after a certain time period.  I would check my settings and the apps that were installed did not seem to be the culprit but I was determined to stop it.

So I wanted to change my password figuring that would keep any unwanted activity from being able to access the account.  The password that I had in my notebook did not work so I had Twitter send me a password change authorization.  I used my Twitter user name to identify myself.  Day or two later noticed that it was still auto-following.  Then I tried changing the password again but this time instead of using the username I registered with my email.

Success!  The auto follows have stopped.  So be careful about letting others have access to your Twitter account.  So many of these apps  require your user name and password.  Do you really want to do that?  From now on, no one, or no app gets access to my account.  Period!

Follow me on Twitter (@linkmoneydotorg).  Change your password often.

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” Kill the Competition on Twitter! “

Twitter will no doubt be using search in their master money plan.  You should too!  Here at Linkmoney our following and follower base has been growing immensely using this and other methods.

I have been using a method to use Twitter Search to narrow down some excellent tweeple to follow with a little used method that Twitter gives you for free!

Note when you log in to Twitter you will see a great big search box, which is why I say that they will be monetizing soon with search ads.  The method that you will want to use is not with that search box though.

Go instead to http://search.twitter.com and you will find a more sophisticated search form that allows you to use Boolean search methods without having to know boo.

If you have a product or a service that you are selling, and who does not?  Then you will want to click on the Advanced Search link and use the following format to get ahead of the competition.

The search form fields are:
All of these words:
This exact phrase:
Any of these words:
None of these words:
This hashtag:
Written in: (select language)

So for the example shown, and I’m sure you will come up with a million better ways, I selected; All of these words: buy, Any of these words: music iphone zune blackberry, None of these words: http www.

As the photo here shows by inserting specific qualifiers in your search string you have not only narrowed the users down to users in your specific niche, you have eliminated all the other competitors.

Twitter Advanced Search

How does this work?  Simple, by using the “None of these words” field and inserting both http and www you have effectively eliminated all the other competitors that are trying to sell something, because you have searched for all messages with no “LINKS”.

Now go out there and get some followers that are looking to buy just exactly what ever it is you are selling!

Follow me at twitter.com/linkmoneydotorg.

ps: If you have some tips on how to use Twitter Advanced Search we would love to hear about them.  Please send comments.