Okay as I mentioned Twitter is catching on like wild fire people are outsourcing people now to ghost twitter for them. Now what the fun is that. Here is a great article on Ghost Twittering.

35 twitter tips from those that tweet  

Want to dress up your twitter space check out www.mytweetspace.com

Get your news alerts from Twitter 

Learn what Twitter Tracking is.

Here is some Common list of Twitter commands from Everything you ever need to know about Twitter
Written By: Koka Sexton

• @username + message
  directs a twitter at another person, and causes your twitter to save in their “replies” tab.
  Example: @ijustine I love that song too!
• D username + messagesends a person a private message that goes to their device, and saves in their web archive.
  Example: d krissy want to pick a Jamba Juice for me while you’re there?
• WHOIS usernameretrieves the profile information for any public user on Twitter.
  Example: whois jack
• GET usernameretrieves the latest Twitter update posted by the person.
  Example: get goldman
• NUDGE usernamereminds a friend to update by asking what they’re doing on your behalf.
  Example: nudge biz
• FAV usernamemarks a person’s last twitter as a favorite. (hint: reply to any update with FAV to mark it as a favorite if you’re receiving it in real time)
  Example: fav al3x

• STATSthis command returns your number of followers, how many people you’re following, and which words you’re tracking.

There are some really great events throughout the year locally for Search Engine Optimization, Social Media and Online Marketing networking usually I don’t make it to too many of these type of events because I feel there is so much information and so many resources available to you online that I am very picky as to which events I attend. Plus at some of these events you just hear the same people SELF promote and I find that a bit of a turn off. But as I said there are a few that are worth marking on your calendar and going to. ~ InnoTech and eMarketing Summit 2009 looks like a great event to attend. 

The two-day eMarketing Summit brings together marketers, business owners and internet professionals from throughout the Northwest.eMarketing Summit @ InnoTech Wednesday, April 22 & Thursday, April 23, 2009 Oregon Convention Center  Register at eMarketing Summit 

Check out the list of topics with several nationally recognized speakers

Member of Obama’s Social Media Team to Keynote on April 23
Yes We Did: Strategic Insights and Social Media from the Campaign that Changed History  — Rahaf Harfoush, New Media Strategist, Member of Obama’s Social Media Team, & Associate Director of the Global Cooperation Initiative at the World Economic Forum 

Local Search Marketing Strategies -David Mihm, Director & COO, GetListed.org

Convergence Marketing: Combining Brand and Direct for Unprecedented Profits -Richard G. Rosen, President & CEO, ROSEN – a global marketing consultancy

Experience Strategy: Driving Customer Interactions in a multi-layered Brand Landscape - Ascentium

Online Marketing Now - Lessons Learned From Internet Marketing Experts
Dylan Boyd, Vice President of Sales & Strategy, eROI, Inc. Kent Lewis, President, Anvil Media, Inc.

Web Analytics - Eric T. Peterson, Chief Executive Officer & Principal Consultant, Web Analytics Demystified, Inc.

How Best-in-Class Companies Make Word-of-Mouth Marketing - Scott Ballantyne, Founder and CEO of SR2 Marketing LLC & Former VP & General Manager, Personal Systems Group, Hewlett Packard

What is your Social Media Conversion Rate? - Brian Massey, Conversion Scientist, Conversion Sciences Dave Evans, Digital Voodoo

Companies and Communities: Participating Without Being Sleazy - Dawn Foster, Fast Wonder Consulting Moderator Kelly Feller - Intel, Jake Kuramoto - Oracle
Dan Divens - Tripwire.

Hot Seat Panel - Real World Advice For Your Web Site - Moderator: Ben Lloyd Hallie Janssen - Anvil Media, Inc., Kent Schnepp - EngineWorks, Lisa Williams - Media Forte Marketing, Scott Hendison - SearchCommander

Wednesday, April 22 & Thursday, April 23, 2009
Oregon Convention Center
Register at eMarketing Summit  

The purpose to Network thru social media resources is to build awareness to you or your product or brand. In addition having a following of fans is critical to the potential power of your efforts.

If you watch CNN or The Insider you now see everyone promoting their twitter page and encouraging you to connect with them on Twitter why? Because it’s such a powerful way to communicate and influence people. It’s IMMEDIATE and that’s what everyone craves now IMMEDIATE SATISFACTION and IMMEDIATE INFORMATION. Twitter comes out on top for this type of marketing and the viral potential it can have. 

Other Social Media sites are learning from the Twitter model and adapting it for their own business model because it is so powerful. Facebook is a good example of following the twitter model with their recent modification to their page structure.  An important note that I haven’t even mentioned is a secondary benefit to being active in Twitter you can receive incredible Link Juice from it.

Start Tweeting Today!
Step One Create a Twitter Profile and then add friends who are interested in and active in your niche.  Look up others in your nich by doing a related keywords search and see who comes up and start chatting away.  http://search.twitter.com

Facebook can arguably be ranked as the number one fastest growing social media site on the market for the past 2 years.  It’s my favorite social media site for personal and business pursposes. With the newly revamped pages that I spoke about in an early post has sweetened the ability to use facebook as a more powerful marketing tool.  It will be interesting to watch the user feedback as users get accustomed to the recent updates.

Get started on Facebook today!
Step 1 create a Facebook profile and then join some groups related to your niche.  Participate in conversations that you can add quality feedback to and add friends that you connect with ande are releveant to your niche.  Be sure to create a Facebook page for the product or service you are promoting and become a fan of your own page to make it public.  Note:  You can have only ONE profile but as many pages as you like.   The goal is to have a large fan base think of it as a email list you are always looking for ways to build your list and you need to do the same on your facebook pages but let me be clear here ~ DON’T DO GIMICKS or STUPID STRONG SALE LIKE JARGON that will turn off people. People in these type of social media communities don’t want to be pitched to. The purpose is to contribute and build trust and crediability within your niche.

Now I don’t talk to much about MySpace.com because I’m not a huge fan of it personally but it is still a very important player in the social media landscape. Like Blogger and EzArticles, MySpace was one that came out originally and is still a highly ranked, highly trafficked site that is worth your effort when focusing on newtworking.

Sign up for MySpace today!
Step One: Create an account populate your profile and then find groups related to your niche and engage in group converstation, make useful and meaningful contributions and add friends that share the same interest.

Now you may say I have NO TIME to to manage all these social media sites and do work and have a personal life. I get it!  In my next post I will focus on tools that can help you manage your time and still allow you to be active in all of these sites.

I normally don’t get into endorsing things or giving away all my best secrets but this is almost too good to keep to myself and I in some sort of way want everyone to benefit from this tool. It’s that good!  I started working with Traffic Geyser doing video promotion and video marketing about a year ago and have had incredible results from it. If you know anything about video’s power of getting organic results or the power of Youtube you know VIDEO IS WHERE IT’S AT!!

Facts about YouTube: their user base ranges from 18-55, evenly divided between males and females and spanning areas of the country. 51% of users go to YouTube weekly or more often and 52% of 18-34 year olds share videos often with friends and colleagues.

Traffic Geyser is one of my best tools I use for instantly getting traffic results for my clients.

Check out the 30 day free trial

After trying to play the domain game for a couple years now I finally had a live one on the line and sold a domain for $2000.00 not a bad return on my $7.95 investment, However, the other 140 domains I have still sit there with no nibbles.  So like many, I got impatient and tried parking them with those stand alone article sites like whypark.com but again failed to receive any ranking which I ultimately knew would be the outcome.  Then, I ventured into the cash parking arena and the only one making money off my domains was godaddy. 

So as the winds & the rain continues I have decided to take some of my domains that are best suited for affliate marekting and entered into the world of clickbank affiliate sales.  The commisions are much more impressive than commission junction which I tried several years ago and never saw worthy results from. So wish me luck as I cast out my line again in the never ending opportunist world of DOMAIN LURING! oh and if your curious, here is my short list of domains for sale ~ i’ll be updating this soon i have about 60 more to add.

Want to join the fun; http://www.domaintools.com/,  http://www.nameboy.com/ , http://www.domainsbot.com/, http://www.godaddy.com/

With 175 Million monthly users on Facebook I recently heard Ed Dale say it’s like people aren’t on the internet anymore they are on facebook.  There are 750,000 new users signing up daily. Now what marketer doesn’t want a piece of that. 

Recently FB announced that their fan pages would be changing which is HUGE news. The old format was limiting in a number of ways and this recent update now allows marketers to create fan pages which ultimiately are product or business or services pages  that can attract fans (unlimited now) and when a fan likes your info that is updated in their feed they can click on like and share it with their community of friends which is really the big excitement. People love Twitter for the mass amount of people that you can reach in a very short amount of time and the viral effect if can have. With these new changes in facebook pages they are trying to create that same environment~ which I believe will be well received even by non marketers.

Here is a snipet of the facts directly from FACEBOOK…. Starting today, we are announcing new profiles for public figures and organizations. Once called Pages, these new profiles will now begin looking and functioning just like user profiles. Just as you connect with friends on Facebook, you can now connect and communicate with celebrities, musicians, politicians and organizations. These folks will now be able to share status updates, videos, photos or anything else they want, in the same way your friends can already. You’ll be able to keep up with all of their activity in your News Feed. This means that you can find out that Oprah is reading a book backstage before a show, CNN posted a breaking story or U2 is working on a new song, just as you would see that your friend uploaded new photos from her trip to Europe.

We’re also going to make some changes to the home page. The new home page will let you see everything that’s shared by your friends and connections as it happens. It will also provide you more control by letting you choose exactly who you see among the people and things you are connected to. You can decide you no longer want to get updates from your old friend from high school who you rarely talk to, or you can filter the stream to only see updates about your family members. And now, if you want, you can read what President Obama is saying on the same page as your best friend. You can find out what it is your mother, your high school classmate or President Obama are doing, thinking and sharing right now just by logging into Facebook.

Read the full blog post on improving your ability to share and connect

Here is BIG NEWS — THE MOST IMPORTANT ADVANCEMENT IN SEO PRACTICES written by Rand from SEOmoz.

Rand is SEOmoz’s CEO, and co-founder, as well as the primary blogger for the site and the architect of most of the tools and resources, so in my opinion it’s hard to say it better then him … http://www.seomoz.org/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps