Best Twitter Tips for Post-Panda SEO

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If you want to get the most from your tweets in a post-Panda world, here are some tips and techniques to help.

Twitter Tips

While there are many ways to automate Twitter these days, in the long run if you are serious about Social Media, you have to put in the time. When you do, you're going to find the payouts are a lot better than the push-button software people promised you!
  • Profile - Make sure your profile is completely filled out, including an avatar, an informative bio as well as anything else you can do to make a good impression. If you want some ideas there are a few places online for Twitter background ideas.
  • Be Real - Yes, Twitter is mostly bots talking to each other at the moment, but as technology gets better they are going to have a harder and harder time existing in the Twittersphere.
  • Be Honest - Follow who you are interested in within your niche and don't automate the process. Sure, gaining a billion followers overnight would be great, but unless you're Charlie Sheen, you won't be "winning" with this method for very long. It's better to have 1,000 very targeted and loyal followers than 10,000 low quality followers.
Tweet Tips

Optimizing each and every tweet is important if you want to get the most bang for your 140 characters. Have you been automatically posting to Twitter? You might think about stopping in the post-Panda world. Here are some other specific tips for tweeting.
  • Hashtags - While it may make sense to just stuff your tweet with as many popular or trending hashtags as you can, this can lead to your tweet getting lost in the crowd - especially on big trending topics. If you can jump on a hashtag before it gets huge it can be good. In most cases, however, it's going to be best to pick one or two mid-level hashtags that fit your tweet. Also, make sure you use things like #followfriday and #ff... Some niches have their own hashtags, which you should know. For example, military themed tweeps have #milmon and #militarymonday which are good to use for military themed tweets.
  • Retweets - Getting someone to retweet your tweet makes it more powerful. To help make it easier to retweet, make sure you don't use all 140 characters. This can be difficult sometimes, but you want to leave some space for retweeters to add a message without your URL getting lost. Where you place items in the tweet is important, especially for retweeting.
  • Follow the Trends - If you have ever asked What is the Trend, you are not alone. There are other services like Twubs and hashtags.org that are also useful. For more advanced uses, check out TwitterFall.

More Twitter Resources

Here are a couple bonus tips and resources.
  • Twitter for Journalists - Even if you're not a journalist, you may learn something here.
  • Twitter Hashtags Resource - A little basic Twitter hashtag info with a good list of additional resources on hashtags.

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K. Paul Mallasch is the publisher of Webmaster Chronic, where you can learn about Blog Ninja Optimization as well as How to Make Money Online.
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