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Having a first-class website is a must in today’s turbocharged business climate. In our opinion, participating in Twitter and Social Media to drive business to your website only strengthens your companies ability to reach prospective clients. Having said this, we started thinking of ways to tie the two together.

Everyone knows about Twitter, not everyone knows how powerful it is. Many business owners simply don’t understand Twitter. It’s time to shed some light on Twitter and its ability to drive business to your website. Pittsburgh Online Marketing and Search Engine Optimization depends on being fundamentally sound as well as being innovative. That’s where this new technique comes in.

Simply linking @blackballonline to the home page of our site completes the circle of the social graph for Twitter. Now our Twitter username is linked to our website. We haven’t seen anyone attempt this. We are curious ourselves as to the results.

This brings to mind some other methods of ranking on Google for our site. What if we put #Pittsburgh #Internet #Marketing #SEO in anchor text and linked it to our site. Well, we’ll find out. Twitter and the 200,000+ apps that surround it are fantastic traffic sources. I’m sure this will benefit the rankings, just how much time will tell. Get inventive and shares your thoughts with a comment.

Oh! And if you really do want to follow us on Twitter click the button above.

I was asked on Twitter itself by a new found friend, “Where do I find more people to follow?” There are a number of places to go to find Twitter users to follow. We have mentioned many of these in previous posts and they still provide useful and relevant information so we’ll give a brief list for those who haven’t seen our previous posts on this topic.

http://search.twitter.com/ - THE Twitter search

http://search.twitter.com/advanced - A much better way to search for Twitter users – many folks never try the advanced link and we recommend it highly for better follow targeting.

http://www.twellow.com/ - Billed as the Twitter Yellow pages

http://wefollow.com/ - If your into popularity this site is very valuable

http://www.tweefind.com/ - Twitter search in real time. Also YouTube and TweetMeme most popular searches

http://google.com That’s right friends – Big Daddy G can provide another alternative search method that’s sometimes overlooked for people to follow on Twitter.

But the real breaking Twitter news is Twitter itself has launched a Who to follow section on your Twitter profile home page. Most users are familiar with the original Twitter interface and are comfortable there. This incorporates the Twitter Search in 4 distinct sections. (In order for these Screenshot links to work for you, you should already be logged in to Twitter as they are secure links.)

Find on Twitter – Find People or Businesses https://twitter.com/invitations/find_on_twitter

Browse Interests – Search by Category - https://twitter.com/invitations/suggestions

Suggestions For You – Seems to incorporate levels of existing users’ follows to generate a new list of those you may like to follow.  - https://twitter.com/invitations/twitter_suggests

Find Friends – Searches your email accounts for those already Twitter - https://twitter.com/invitations/find_on_contacts

Have more or other interesting methods? Leave a comment. This post brought to you by your favorite Pittsburgh Twitter Marketing Consultants at Blackball Online Marketing.

Being in the Social Media and Information business we tend to look for things in this space that our audience may find of interest. In this case, courtesy of ESRI, http://www.esri.com/services/disaster-response/gulf-oil-spill-2010/index.html a manufacturer of GIS, Geographic Information Systems software, we’ve found an interactive monitoring tool that is keeping tabs on an ongoing catastrophe that impacts us all – The BP Oil Spill.

ESRI’s software allows you to view location based feeds in real time including recent news, threatened  wildlife sites, Tweets , Twitter photos, and YouTube videos. You can also add your own content and updates which allows for input from real people - unbiased by any of the media, corporate and PR outlets. In our humble opinion, this is Social Media at its best.

Blackball Online Marketing specializes in Pittsburgh Twitter Marketing and Social Media solutions for small business.