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Much has been said about Twitter in my blog and in many blogs throughout the blogosphere. Twitter is a social media tool allowing people to stay connected virtually 24/7 by allowing you to update your status via tex message.

To get the most out of twitter and your blog you should install the Tweet This Wordpress Plugin once that plugin is installed you will see the tweet this post option become available in your blog posts. The plugin works for past, present, and future posts. You can see it in action here in this and every other post on my page.

I’m working now on posting more SEO Videos and hopefully I will have them up this evening. I will also be creating my own videos and free e-Book download. I’m still writing every night and once I’m done editing I’ll convert it to .pdf and create a link for you guys.

Along with the definition of common SEO/SEM terms I am constantly being asked how to use Google Webmaster Tools. Well along with the Webmaster Tools, Google also offers the Website Optimizer; I figure why re-invinte the wheel so I found this Google produced video that explains the whole process.

Hello everybody, Just a quick post tonight on my impromptu razor review. What do Shoemoney, Problogger and me ContentPig have in common, besides the fact that we are all devastatingly good looking we are all bald.

These are highly debatable, but here’s my ranking:

1. Produce Remarkable, Attention Grabbing Content

Everything starts with remarkable content i.e. content worth remarking on and linking to. Do you have unique, timely content? Does you content solve a problem? Does you content provide a new insight? Does you content spark controversy? Does you content start - or contribute to - a conversation?

2. Crawlability

If your content can’t be crawled, you won’t rank. Ensure your site is easily accessible to both humans and search engine spiders.

3. Build Links

Google’s algorithm is heavily weighted towards links. Beg, buy, or earn links, and rankings follow. Get your keywords into the link text. Building links also means building relationships with people. Spend a lot of time doing this, especially in the early stages.

4. Title Tag

It is debatable how much ranking value the title tag has, both it definitely has click-thru value. Your listing fights for attention with all the other links on page. What will make people click your link?
Learn the lessons of Adwords. Match your title tag to the keyword query. Solve a users problem. Arouse curiosity.

5. On-Page Content

Forget endless on-page tweaking. Largely a waste of time. Instead, keep a few keyword phrases in mind when writing. Use semantic variations of your terms in order to help catch long tail terms. Link your page to related pages, using keyword terms in the link.

Bonus: Watch Your Competition. Do What They Do

My good friend Mr. Mike over at Double Treble, the place for weekly crochet savings and green eco-friendly yarn, recently hand-crafted me an awesome beanie. Being that I shave my head I seem to notice the colder temperatures sooner than others. Now I have nothing to worry about, I’ve got my head covered thanks to Mike. If you guys have any interest in crochet or have afriend that might you should definitely check out his site. He has a better post over there with a few more pictures.

The first five minutes of my local TV newscast last night was spent showing how much local interest there was in President Barack Obama’s inauguration. People watched on TV in schools, sports bars, department stores, dentists’ offices, nursing homes, and just about anywhere else a TV could be turned on.

Google says that interest was also reflected online. In a late-night blog post, Google shares some interesting facts and figures about inauguration-related search activity:

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As the campaign progressed many pundits were taken aback by the way in which the candidate had managed to use the net to mobilize supporters in a way never seen before. By allowing supporters to take his core values and messages, tweak them and broadcast them in whatever way they saw fit (such as the video below which was submitted to a YouTube competition), he had made this the first UGC campaign. By taking citizen journalists seriously, he had ensured that the bloggers were on his side. And by utilizing social networks, he had made sure that his supporters were organized in such a way as to maximize his vote.