Another Sparkling DIME For Offliners!!!!!!!!
ByWow, it seems like it has been a while.
But I am back with a BANG!!!!!!!!
I have been sooooo busy but in good ways and have loads of projects going on at the minute (well it seems that way anyhow!)
Ok, it may have been a little while but I am back with some things for you to try out and a few little nuggets I have uncovered. Firstly, I have been busier than ever over the past month or so, but this hasn’t been by an influx of new clients, this time it has been on more work for existing clients, some of which have required some extreme management. But, I am seeing light at the end of the tunnel of management now and I can get to my blog and let you know what I have been up to!
With my offline business growing, I have also just acquired a new job site I intend to launch to the UK. It is a new project for me but one I can see huge profit in if I can gain some ground from the big boys, we will see over the next few months! Other than that, as mentioned, it has been fingers to the pulse on the offline business apart from another little product I have been trying to put together in parts.
It isn’t necessarily a offline product but may help some of you. I have been working with WORDPRESS for years now and I have been killing the SEO side of it, so I decided to put together a guide on optimal SEO for WordPress and how I rank simple WP sites top page of Google. It is aimed sort of at newbie WP users but I am sure many WP users will get a lot out of it.
Well, it has taken a while to put together because I have been too busy and offline clients are more important obviosuly, so hopefully I will have it finished in the next week or so. Not a direct offline product but could help a few of you! You will know about it when it is ready! So, that is what I have been doing for the past few weeks/months!
Now to todays post and this tip I have been going on about!
Well, I have uncovered a little dime while playing around with Twitter, some of you may already be aware of this and it is still work in progress, so I will have to keep you updated! Now I have found that Twitter profiles can be extremely powerful! This may sound like a “Yeh, We Know” type of statement but I am not talking about gathering followers.
You see, we know that local geo targeted keywords are not the most competitive and I am sure this dime could not work as well with IM niches etc. or I am sure everyone would be doing it.
What am I talking about?
Well, I am talking about ranking TWITTER profiles in Google for local businesses!
Now, as I mentioned, this is work in progress for me at the moment and I wanted to let you in on the secret so you guys can test this as well. But from initial research and playing around I am seeing some very good results. As soon as I hit a top page position, I will post here! I have hit page 2 but not 1 yet, so I will post when I am page 1 with a profile!
What is promising though is that I have found that my twitter profile rankings are growing and climbing through the rankings daily!
So, how does this work?
Well, here is a simple step by step 30 second guide:
1. Choose a keyword that has less than 5k competing pages in “quotes”
I only focus on 1 keyword to begin with! The lower the competing pages are the better chance of hitting top page!
2. Fill out the profile with the keyword in mind!
Ok, what I mean here is, say my keyword is “Plumber Preston” then I will fill out my Name as “Plumber Preston” and my username as twitter.com/PlumberPreston. You actually only get 15 chracters so the shorter keywords work best here if you can find them. If it is a longer keyword I just take as many words as I can of the keyword. For example:
Keyword: Real Estate Santa Monica – Longer than 15 characters so I would shorten it too say: twitter.com/RESantaMonica
Get creative with it as this is work in progress! We have more opportunity to fill out keywords in the profile etc.
3. Create Profile and now we edit things!
4. First thing I do is post a new tweet surrounding the keyword, for example:
Plumber Preston: In need of a Plumber in Preston then we can help – Get in touch with the Preston Plumber!
5. I then fill out the profile, again basing it on the keyword and upload a relevant picture!
6. Ok, lets go link building and optimising!
The beauty with twitter is it is like a blog and because of the constant updates, your profile gets indexed real quick. You can type in the full twitter URL for your profile into google including the WWW and you will see if it is indexed!
We now build links!
Social Bookmarks, Directories etc.
This then starts to push the profile up through the rankings and if done properly can be a very powerful tool for building followers and also selling as part of your marketing packages etc.
The other added bonus of Twitter is you can constantly update it with keyword rich statements to keep pulling the search engine back! So make sure you post a tweet once a day and make sure the keyword is involved every now and then. You do not need to do it in every tweet as I have tested but keep it updated! ; )
Again, I will reiterate this is work in process and I am testing many things but wanted to throw that out there so you guys can have a play around with it!
Enjoy and Happy Tweeting!!!!!
GoGetta
P.S As always, let me know what you find!!!!!!!
13 Comments
October 1st, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Hi Jamie,
Thanks for the dime. A bit like Greek to me at this point. I’ll have to read a few times. I presume you are opening a new Twitter profile for each biz or is that for each kw?
October 1st, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Good advice Jamie.
You advise to tweet once a day. If you were doing this as a sercice, would you tweet once a day for your client, or outsource it?
Jim
October 1st, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Well, again this is work in progress but I have found that tweeting once a day for the first week is good.
After this, maybe not as frequent but this can be done by you or your client, they can then make the profile their own adding offers and links to their site etc.
As far as a Twitter profile for each biz, this is how I have been doing it so far. I have worked on 2 models:
1 for a client!
1 with the possiblity of flipping!
GoGetta
October 1st, 2009 at 5:10 pm
There is one big problem with using twitter for seo: All twitter links are nofollow. They wont pass any pagerank to your own website.
So to me, putting a lot of work into twitter solely for ‘seo reasons’ is kind of a waste of time. Spending time link building your own site, or a site that actually passes page rank (squidoo, google knol, facebook pages to name a few) is a better use of time.
Thats not to say that twitter is poor to use… its great, use it to help build yourself up and market with it. Maybe use it for that initial quick ranking on search engines.
But in the long run, you should be trying to get YOUR site (or your clients site) to rank… Twitter doesn’t help you do this…
Does that make sense to anyone?
October 1st, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Sounds like a worthwhile project!
Actually this could be another service to sell or a bonus service to get the original sale. I’ll have to try it on a few of my sites to see how it works.
October 1st, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Peter, you are right!
But optimising a Twitter profile in this case isn’t to boost the clients site, it is to maybe add another ranking to the campaign!
How I see it is:
A huge umbrella of sites all pointing to my clients phone number and contact details!!!
Great point though!
GoGetta
October 1st, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Sounds like a good way to build your twitter profile.
Seems to me a good way to pass ranking on to your (or your client’s) site would be to triangulate the tweets. Send tweets to an article or hub page which could then have a “live” link to the site.
Thanks for yet another “nugget” Jamie
goldog
October 1st, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Hey all, twitter has placed sites on page 1 for me doing as Jamie
sez here. Type in Philadelphia Marketing Consultants, and one of my
sites is on the 1st page, and this is because of twitter, no else!
Jim
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Thanks for sharing Jamie.
As always good stuff and very helpful to us and those we serve.
Take care,
Rick
October 5th, 2009 at 8:30 am
the troubles is 5,000 competing pages is for phrases that are hardly searched….is it worth it?
October 6th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Mark, not entirely true! It depends on the niche. In the UK I am finding hair salons and beauty spas brimming with potential keywords to target, some less than <<1000. These get searchers in the thousands very month aswell!
GoGetta
October 7th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
I just ordered the Phone Obliteration Package but lost the download page before I could download anything! I just sent you an email. Can you please resend link ASAP? Thanks!
October 16th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
Just found this blog. Great show!
Mark: a local business would be happy for even 5 more customers per month. A customer can have a huge lifetime value what with repeat and backend sales. Using Jamie’s method gives that business another potential slot in the google ranking. For the offline entrepreneur this is easy to implement and businesses will be in awe of the value.