SEO, Social Media News & Domains
Twitter Competition Winner Announced.
May 6th
Thank you to every one who entered my Twitter competition for my 2000th Tweet on Twitter, it was a good success with various different online marketers entering. As their can only be one winner I placed all the Twitter user names into a hat and shuffled them and the winner ended up been Perth SEO Bob Jones.
Video of competition draw here:
Stay tuned for more competitions soon, thank you to all who entered!
Recent images a new feature on Twitter, is Twitter trying to mimic Facebook?
Aug 23rd
Today Twitter rolled out another new feature to enhance the engagement within the product, the feature called recent images displays any new images which have been added to your twitter account. (view screen shot below)
Recent-images-tab
What this shows is that Twitter is trying to mimic Facebook recent images in some ways and to also make the product not just for text based content yet also for visual content images and video.
Twitter SEO Value drops as Google search deal ends!
Jul 5th
Twitter-SEO-Drops
News today on the SEO front is that Twitter and Google’s search deal which started in October 2009 has ended, this has now resulted in Real Time data from Twitter been removed from Google. Yet the most evident change is the impact on Tweets from authority sources and ranking for SEO terms. I have noticed that many large scale SEO’s in the US market are testing Tweet related tests and it is evident that the power of Tweets may have in fact been dropped significantly.
This is a very interesting development from a Social SEO front and we will be testing and monitoring development further.
Putting a @Follow us tag in a website Title Tag for a Huge Website?
Jun 17th
So a huge website in the US has taken an interesting move which I have not seen many websites do online.
This website ranks first for terms like “Hip Hop” so I imagine the traffic would be good and the Alexa is quite high.
The title tag they are using is as follows – AllHipHop.com: Follow Us! @AllHipHopcom, view the image below:
All Hip Hop
Any one seen something similar to this, if so please share the example here!
Top Users on Twitter A Great Graphic
Apr 7th
Here is a graphic which shows the top users currently on Twitter.
Top Twitter Users by followers
The most popular are musicians and the important thing to remember is that these guys will be popular for many years to come and will be able to charge thousands per Tweet.
Follow me on Twitter @connections8
Charlie Sheen Gets back his Domain name charliesheen.com
Mar 13th
For any one who has been following the Charlie Sheen developments over the last few weeks, you be be well aware that Charlie Sheen is building a strong following via social media channels. He built 1 million followers on Twitter in 1 day, He is building strength via uStream and other website where thousands to millions of users want to know what he is saying and in the blogasphere he is going crazy.
In the middle of all this I was wondering why is Charlie Sheen building up a social presence on Twitter and other websites which he does not technically own, I decided to check out Charliesheen.com and see who owned it to my dismay it was pulling up a 404 error page. I instantly did a who is check which allows me to see who owns the domain name, some company called Alberta Hot Rods owns the domain for many years interesting.
Yesterday I saw Charlie put up a tweet, saying he had taken his domain back from the Troll, now he owns it because if you visit charliesheen.com you see his website come up –
charliesheen.com domain name
Charlie is Winning once again taking the domain from Albert Hot Rods and now owning it, I am sure he can make his personal brand via social media even stronger now with a domain name to divert all this traffic back too.
NAB Takes aim at CBA via Social Media!
Mar 5th
So the NAB bank has recently been pushing alot of advertising material on offline media – TV/Print and online telling people to move from their current bank.
This week I had some problems with Commonwealth bank, I needed to urgently send some money.
Yet they had issues with their network so the whole Netbank was down for the best part of a day, I took to Twitter to post about the issue saying how I was not happy with CBA and thinking ab out changing banks.
Instantly (within 30 minutes) NAB strikes back offering me to join their bank:
NAB-CBA twitter
So it shows these types of customer acquisition’s methods whilst are a little sneaky are obviously working for big banks.
The Top Trends on Twitter in 2010
Dec 16th
Here is a great list of the top Trends on Twitter 2010, this is some powerful data form Twitter to show you which terms people were tweeting the most over the last 12 months.
Overall Top Trends
• 1.Gulf Oil Spill
• 2.FIFA World Cup
• 3.Inception
• 4.Haiti Earthquake
• 5.Vuvuzela
• 6.Apple iPad
• 7.Google Android
• 8.Justin Bieber
• 9.Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows
• 10.Pulpo Paul
News Events
1. Gulf Oil Spill
2. Haiti Earthquake
3. Pakistan Floods
4. Koreas Conflict
5. Chilean Miners Rescue
6. Chavez Tas Ponchao
7. Wikileaks Cablegate
8. Hurricane Earl
9. Prince Williams Engagement
10. World Aids Day
People
1. Justin Bieber
2. Dilma Rouseff
3. Lady Gaga
4. Julian Assange
5. Mel Gibson
6. Lil Kim
7. Zilda Arns
8. Kate Middleton
9. Kim Hee Chul
10. Joannie Rochette
Movies
1. Inception
2. Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows
3. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
4. Despicable Me
5. Karate Kid
6. The Last Airbender
7. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
8. The Expendables
9. The Chronicles of Narnia
10. Paranormal Activity 2
Television
1. MTV Video Music Awards
2. Pretty Little Liars
3. True Blood
4. Walking Dead
5. Grammy Awards
6. Glee
7. Family Guy
8. CSI
9. MTV Movie Awards
10. American Music Awards
Technology
1. Apple iPad
2. Google Android
3. Apple iOS
4. Apple iPhone
5. Call of Duty Black Ops
6. New Twitter
7. HTC
8. RockMelt
9. MacBook Air
10. Google Instant
World Cup
1. FIFA World Cup
2. Vuvuzela
3. Pulpo Paul
4. Dunga
5. Diego Maradona
6. Cristiano Ronaldo
7. Cala Boca Galvao
8. Lionel Messi
9. Oranje
10. Felipe Melo
Sports
1. Lebron James
2. Wimbledon
3. Manchester United
4. Brock Lesnar
5. Celtics
6. Brett Favre
7. Tony Parker
8. Antonio Margarito
9. Blake Griffin
10. Mike Vick
Hashtags
1. #rememberwhen
2. #slapyourself
3. #confessiontime
4. #thingsimiss
5. #ohjustlikeme
6. #wheniwaslittle
7. #haveuever
8. #icantlivewithout
9. #thankful
10. #2010disappointments
Source:
Twitter Local Trends for Australia and Analytics
Nov 18th
So Twitter has not been showing much love for Australia, to date they do not have an office in here and many clients have been asking questions about Twitter for the past 2 years+.
Finally Twitter has been showing some signs of love for the Australian market with the release of Australian Twitter trending topics for the local market which have been needed for some time due to the fact all our trending topics were from the USA market which was a bit confusing this new change will show local trending topics from the Australian market which is a real plus for this market.
Furthermore Twitter has boosted its analytic offering and is now going to offer a new Twitter analytic product which is going to be great for any one who wants to track things on the twitter platform and give detailed insights for clients.
As Twitter is a must for any social SEO strategy I think these developments are great for Twitter and I look forward to more growth in the Australian market for Twitter.
Twitter Trends Australia
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Weird Twitter spam!
Mar 8th
Posted by SEO, Social Media & Domains in Twitter
1 comment
Today I was on Twitter and I noticed a few suspicious @ comments posted to me, it seems these guys have bots that automatically make a bunch of account then they run off some type of script to bombard many users in a same group.
Weird Twitter spam
the link they keep spamming me with is going to a payments gateway.
Has any one seen this type of spam before using @ comments on twitter?