Every Once in a while you come across something truly unique on the web, Something that you wish that you had thought of before “they” did and something that is extrememly innovative.

Today I came across what is called “Twittter Mosaic” while searching the web for Twitter resources that i may want to include in “Twitter Influence”

I realized that twitter mosaic was a pretty cool idea, I mean who doesn’t want to see a picture collage of all of your twitter friends right?

It is pretty simple, All you do is visit http://sxoop.com/twitter/mosaic.pl and enter your twitter username to see your collage.

You are probably wondering how they monetize this right? Good question…

As your twitter mosaic is loading they also offer you t-shirts and coffee mugs with your twitter mosaic on them! How cool is that?

I just had to blog about something unique and emerging that i saw on the web.  What a great idea for a web business!

Think outside the box and form a whole new business that anyone has ever made before!

Leave your comments below and let me know what you think! also if you are plastered on this twitter mosaic wall leave a comment and let me know as well!

Now I am off to finish the “twitter Influence” course! finally!

Have a great day!

Dbk

Please Re-tweet for me! I want as many people that have faces on this blog to see it! Thanks!

Blogging is easy once the design is done and you understand wordpress, typepad or blogspot or whichever platform that you are using.  I

recommend that you blog using wordpress because in the opinion of many of the best bloggers out there and mine it is the best blogging platform.  Wordpress allows you to integrate plugins unlike any other blogging platform that help your traffic and seo and ability to increase the overall effectiveness of your blog.

Alright, let’s get into blog marketing and the simple tactics and methods that many bloggers use including me to grow there blog readership and traffic.

I’m going to talk about 3 strategies that I use just to cover the basics so that you can get started and use these three synergistically to grow your blog’s traffic and readership.

Social Media blog marketing

If you aren’t active in social media sites such as facebook, twitter and linkedin yet than you definitely need to be! I think that being active in social media sites and networking with people in your business space is one of the best ways to get loyal blog readers.  If you are producing high quality content that add’s value to your marketplace then your new friends and connections that you come into contact with will subscribe to your blog and become loyal readers.

Interact with like-minded individuals in twitter, facebook and linkedin.  By connecting with people that want to grow and evolve in your business and then delivering high quality information to them through your blog you will create loyal readers over and over again.  Think about this for a second, You spend hours and hours in twitter and facebook meeting new people and networking and once in a while you tweet or post a linke to your blog to let them know that there is a new blog post about what they are interested in.  What do you think will happen?

Social Media and your blog’s positioning

The greatest thing about social media is you can duplicate this over and over again.  You create a strong relationship and network with people at the same time.  The great thing abotu social media and an established professional looking blog is that you can position yourself as an authority with a little bit of value and elbow grease.

Keep networking and meeting new people, and when you write a new blog post or create a video or do anything that would add value to your marketplace be sure to post that link in your social networking sites.

As time goes on your not only positioning yourself and your blog as an expert in your business but you are networking and building relationships with business people that could be potential partners in the future.  We all know that it is important to network and be connected and have as many connections as you can in your business and all businesses as a whole even.

So keep networking through social media and sending them to your blog.  Be sure to encourage commenting at the end of every blog post as well so that they comment and provide feedback for you.

Positioning your blog for optimal search engine exposure

Your blog is content.  The more often you deliver content on your blog the better, Update your blog frequently.  If you can post to your blog once a day even if it’s a 200 or 300 word post.  It’s a good habit to get in to post daily.  By posting frequently you will start growing your traffic from the search engines.  If you post frequently and use targeted keywords related to your business you will start to get organic search engine traffic without learning much about seo.

A couple of things that you can do in order to improve your search enigne rankings are as follows.  The first thing that you can do is link every page in your blog to one another, start with the first page and link to the second page and so on and so forth.  Then link the last page to the firstpage.  By linking all of your pages together like this you help your search engine rankings.

Another thing that you can do is add a sitemap to your blog.  Adding a sitemap helps your blog’s seo as well.  A sitemap organizes it and make’s it easier for search engines.  Wordpress has a sitemap plugin that make’s it quick and easy, I highly recommend that you use it to help with your search engine marketing.

I hope that those Seo tips can help you get more traffic and utlilize the power of the search engines to bring you more and more traffic as your blog grows in content and authority!

Blog commenting

okay! finally the last step! I know that this blog post is getting  a little long so i will keep this quick.  This concept is pretty simple but barely any bloggers use it and it is extremely undervalued! By searching out similar blogs in your space and reading them and interacting and leaving comments you leave little trails of yourself all over the internet on these other blogs.  You show your expertise and give your own advice and recommendations on other blogs and people will see that and want to learn more about you.

The great thing about leaving blog comments is that you can leave your link to your blog.  they click on your name and it take’s them straight to your blog and walla! You just leeched traffic from another blog and brougtht them to yours.  If you do this over and over again you will leave traces of you all over the web.  If you work hard at this alone you can attract readers and subscribers continuously from that one-time work.

To sum it up you want to network on social networking sites with people in your business space then post a link to your blog and your new posts every once in a while.  Spend time writing posts as often as you can, preferably everyday and use keywords that are related to your market.  Then last but not least be active in the blogsphere and comment on other blogs to leave traces of your blog all over the net.  By using just these three marketing and strategies you can grow a highly successful blog online.  Not only do you get to have an awesome blog and community but you also are networking so you develop more business partners and relationships and connections.

Keep up the great work and STAY CONSISTENT! WORK at it! this is work remember!

Take care!

David King

let’s discuss several things that you need to know about seo in order to help you get more search engine traffic!

The first thing is on page and off page factors.

On page Search engine optimization factors would be your word count, the placement of your words, word density
and the basic flow of your content “ON” your website.

Off page search engine optimization factors are things that are not on the website but on the web that would effect your website, So
for example Links to your site and the overall “buzz” of your website on the rest of the web.

make sense?

The difference between the two are pretty simple, One is on page and one is off page. Kind of
self-explanatory there!

With your on page seo there are several things that you want to do.

Seo can get pretty complicated so I will just stick to the basics in this blog post and you can research
what I am talking about at a deeper level if you would like.

The first thing that you want to realize on page is that you have to use keywords that relate to your
market or website.

If you own a blog or website about weight loss or small business marketing you want to be sure to include
those keywords and keywords like them on your website.

I know you are probably thinking… Of course? why wouldn’t I?

keyword research can get pretty wide and deep. Be sure to research the types of keyords in your marketplace
so that you can target your blog post or website accordingly.

The next thing on page that you want to watch is your title tags and meta tags. This is simply the naming of a webpage
on your website or page.

You want to be sure that you have your targeted keywords in these areas so that the search engine spiders
will know exactly what your website is about!

on page factors are fairly easy.

You want to use the keywords in your title and meta tags, Use the keywords in your blog posts and say them
frequently but not too frequently that it would seem “out of place” or strange. Believe it or not the
search engines can pick up on it!

Off page seo factors are more Important than on page seo factors and they take work.

The main thing that you will want to understand about off page seo is your inbound links.

Having links pointing to your site is gold in the eyes of google, yahoo and msn. They see it as a vote
that your site is awesome and that people like it so they are linking to you. There are 3 types of Inbound links
the first one is…

1. One way links- These are the type of links that random website owners will link to you and you may not
even know it. These are the best links because google see’s that you are not exchanging links and they see
that you are genuinely liked and appreciated by other people online.

2. Reciprocal links- Reciprocal links are links that two website owners will swap. Basically I link to your website
and you link to my website. It’s the classic I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine. This link is beneficial but
not as beneficial as a one way link.

3. 3 way links- This way is pretty simple to Reciprocal links but it’s just another person added into the mix. Basically
Site A links to Site B and site B Links to Site C and site C links back to Site A. Does that make sense?
Just picture a triangle with A, B, and C all linking to the next alphabetical letter!

Incoming links to your website are important. Probably the most important factor for off page seo.

If you can get your on page factors correct and keep building links to your site and keep updating the
content frequently you will be on your way to a constant increase in traffic to your website!

Good LUCK!

Get Links and keywords!

David King

just so you know…

The purpose of this blog is to teach and train and educate you in the following areas.

• Social Media Marketing
• Social bookmarking
• Seo
• Free website traffic strategies
• Website monetizing strategies
• email marketing
• blog marketing
• Blogging
• Youtube and video marketing
• Facebook and social networking
• Building your brand through blogging and social media
• twitter- how to use it to your networking and marketing advantage
• and MORE!

I want you to be able to build and grow your own web business just from the knowledge that you learned from this blog.

Own a blog, have a social media impact and influence and make money from the internet so you can travel anywhere in the world and live the internet lifestyle!

So we all have things we need to catch up on in life…

well most of us that is.

some of us have everything together… I’m working on it!

I have known for a while that I have quite a few unread emails.

You probably already know what I’m going to say.

Yes. You guessed it.

I have 86,316 unread emails.

A little opt-in happy? Ya think!

It’s throughout 5 different email addresses.

Don’t worry I won’t be catching up on those anytime soon.

I am just curious now as to how many emails I have opened in my life!

Probably at least 5,000 maybe even 10,000 or more.

It’s ridiculous how fast the internet is growing.

information travels at the speed of Li.. no… soun… no THE INTERNET!

I mean twitter… Digg… Facebook.

Word travels fast.

the question is…

Is yours?

Leave comments below.

No… no… i’m not talking about words per hour (typing)!

I’m talking about an acronym i just invented!

Your WPH is…

W-Worth

P-Per

H-Hour

your worth per hour is the amount of money that your business skills are worth in one hour of work.

so…

If I were to hire you for one hour how much would it cost?

sure we can all make up a figure.

I’m worth about $1,000 an hour, $50 an hour… whatever.

Unless you are a lawyer we really don’t know how much one hour of our work is worth.

But there is a way to find out… were gonna do a little math ok?

here’s how it works.

Take your business Net profit in one day…. an average will do.

Subtract all and I mean ALL expenses so that whatever is left is Your money.

then divide that by however many hours you work on an average day.

So here is the formula.

NP-TE=WPH

NP= Net profits

TE= Total expenses

WPH= worth per hour

now you know how to calculate your worth per hour.

calculate your worth per hour and know it.

then increase it.

grow your business… your profits and your wph will grow as a result!

have an awesome night!

David King.

all of the chitter chatter about how joe smith just made $1,000,000 online in a MONTH! HOLY COW!

who cares?

honestly.

It’s awesome joe johnson did that (hypothetical character!) but why does it matter?

things like twitter, facebook and your email are distracting.

then you have internet marketers promoting software programs, books, courses, websites, services and

EVERYTHING else under the sun!

well at least it seems like that sometimes!

I love promotions because it’s good to know what’s going on in the industry and what can help you grow your business quicker.

But guys… we all need to stay focused on our business and implement the basics first.

once the basics are solid and functional in our business then we can move into advanced marketing strategies, advanced seo, advanced software site tracking etc…

these are all great things but get the backbone strong first!

Leave comments and share if you liked it… if not then find another blog! just kidding!~

I just made a new facebook called…

Twitter… You follow me… I follow you.

The concept of the group is to get as many people who “tweet” into the facebook group.

what you do is you post your twitter url on the wall and then you can follow the other twitterers in

the group.

They post their twitter url on the wall and you can just go and get as many twitter followers as you want.

Here is the link:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=39042390987

I encourage you to join and start getting those twitter followers!

Have an awesome night!

David,

Web 2.0 describes the changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aim to enhance creativity, secure information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web. Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, video sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies.

Pretty cool how the web is evolving right?

I just watched this video the other day and I was shocked at how fast the internet is changing and will continue to change.

It describes how web 3.0 will be.

EXCITING stuff ladies and gentlemen!

What do you think about that?

pretty amazing stuff right?

there is so much opportunity online.

The internet is in our lives more and more because of the technology that allows the internet to be so useful to us in our lives!

Leave comments below and let me know what you think of Web 3.0

David King,

I’ll call it the “drunk networking story”

I really do believe that this is an important lesson that a lot of people can learn from…

I was on facebook the other night, networking meeting new people and chatting… normal facebook stuff.

I get a chat from a guy asking me if I’m in the ad business.

I was kind of confused by his question, so I said yeah sort of.

He then said what do you mean.

and I said well… what do you mean by the ad business?

Kind of weird conversation so far right?

It get’s even stranger…

He proceeds to tell me how he works for this ad agency and it’s the largest one in the coutnry.

He then tells me his race and other weird facts.

I was confused.

I didn’t know how to respond.

I basically said… oh ok the whole time.

I’m a nice guy ya know!

as we near the end of the conversation he tells me he’s been drinking.

Hmm? i thought.

What a good way to make a good first impression.

The story of the drunk networker… LOL that could be my next best-selling book!

I have seen a lot of this “drunk networking”

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You may not be drunk but do you come across as a drunk person would?

throwing out random facts, debt free company, solid company, better than them… etc. I think you get the picture.

Marketing your business without building the relationship at all.

Can I ask you a question?

when is the last time that worked?

when is the last time your sales pitch worked?

Learn to build the relationship and give value upfront first.

that value could be education, resources, people etc.

You’d be suprised at how many people message me information about their business etc.

Let’s get something straight.

YOU DON’T BUILD A BUSINESS BY SPAMMING!

You build a relationship by marketing!

What’s the difference?

One is “HEY GO CHECK THIS OUT, PEOPLE are quitting their jobs in a week! you’ll be a millionaire by next week!”

and the other is… Hey, thanks for the friendship… I like your website or blog and i like what your doing.

I see that your starting to learn more in this area… I made a group over here, or i have a newsletter or I have a blog about that here… I am sure you’ll find something useful there that should help you out in some way or another…

That second one, that’s how you go about it.

Give them value.

Show value, How can I help you?

Everyone’s favorite radio station is WIFM…

that’s…

W- What’s

I- In it

F- For

M- Me

be the person to give value and you’ll see that your business will grow by building those relationships.

It’s the future of marketing… I’ll call it relationship marketing.

It’s one thing that Gary Vaynerchuk over at http://winelibrarytv.com does very well.

He educates and has had personal contact with thousands of his blog readers…

When’s the last time you’ve done that?

Remember to build a relationship and deliver value before you try to sell anything.

also remember that anytime you deliver WAY more value than the other person…

they’ll owe you… and that’s usually a good thing!

It’s better to be owed than to owe!

Have an awesome day… the spartans just beat purdue 21 to 7~

David King,