Four Great Twitter Applications
Toanswer is a very useful Twitter application. It is very similar to Yahoo answers. You ask a question and then it is indexed, and you wait for other uses to respond back. Here is how you get started! You simply add the profiles Toask & Toanswer to your Twitter account. You can post a twitter update in the following format: “@ToAsk are there any good websites for a computer themed Wordpress theme?”
Toanswers scours the twitterverse, then finds the answer and will post it on the homepage. It may take a few minutes to appear due to Twitter’s API limitation.
Twitter Search (Formerly Summize). Twitter is also a good functional tool itself. You can go to the website and search for whatever you like i.e. your company name or your industry related keywords. You can track conversations about a particular topic as well. You can also see who is talking about you, your brand or a topic you are interested in. For example, a user can type in “SEO” and you can find hundreds of useful tips and people in the SEO field.
Have you ever been on twitter and you are trying to keep up with all your tweeples at a conference, or even try to keep up with an important conversation? Hashtags will be your weapon of choice. Hashtags are a way to group twitter messages of choice. Hashtags is an opt-in service. You must follow @hashtags for the service to index your tweets. To see all tweets for a hashtag simply add the hashtag name at the end of this URL: http://hashtags.org/tag/”keyword” (i.e. http://hashtags.org/tag/SEO).
Twitter Local helps you find local people who use Twitter in your area. This is a great networking tool to find other users in your area who may be in the same line of business or whom have similar interests in your field. It also shows a leader board of what users have tweeted the most in your area (i.e. @cyandle for our area). The results only show people who have sent tweets within the last 24 hours. If you want a run down of who uses twitter locally to you, but not posted lately, you can always use a Google query command such as site: twitter.com location Raleigh NC.
These are just some of the tools we use with our twitter accounts here at Regency Interactive. Feel free to contact us today for your free, no obligation consultation and free Internet visibility report. Just 10-15 minutes with one of our search engine marketing consultants could be the difference in your business just getting by or becoming a major player in your industry.
Tags: regency interactive, regency interactive corporation, social media, twitterSEOmoz Seminar - Sessions So Good They’ll Make Your Head Hurt!
As you all know I attended the SEOmoz Expert Training Seminar last week (Aug. 19 & Aug. 20) and I had previously told you that I would review the sessions for our readers once I got back. Well, unfortunately, I cannot review the sessions for you as they have asked us not to blog about what was taught at the various sessions. I totally respect that and have no issues with not being able to tell our readers what we learned. I can, however, let you know what the sessions were about. Then, you can see why my head hurt after the sessions were over! That’s just how good the sessions were at SEOmoz and I am definitely glad that I got to attend the event.
Day One
Thinking Like A Search Engineer - Rand Fishkin
Elite Site Architecture - Rand Fishkin & Stephan Spencer
White Hat Cloaking - Rand Fishkin
Spam Detection & False Positives - Nick Gerner
Legal Issues - Sarah Bird
Site Reviews - Rebecca Kelley & Rand Fishkin
Global Search - Will Critchlow & Duncan Morris
Sitemaps & Webmaster Tools - Rand Fishkin & Stephan Spencer
Crawlability - Jeff Pollard
Day Two
Reputation Management - Will Critchlow & Duncan Morris
Social Networks For SEO - Jane Copland
Opportunities & Pitfalls Of Buying Links - Seth Besmertnik
Enterprise Link Building - Rand Fishkin
Vertical Search Inclusion - Stephan Spencer
Future Of Search Engines - Danny Sullivan
Expert Q&A - Danny Sullivan, Rand Fishkin, Stephan Spencer, Nick Gerner, Will Critchlow & Duncan Morris
These sessions were so great we’re going to implement quite a few of their suggestions in our services at Regency Interactive. Just to give you a hint of what we will be implementing; we’re going to offer more in depth site reviews, more social media services, putting more thought into conversions for our clients and so forth.
P.S. It was also great to meet the people I treat with on a daily basis: Alex Bennert, Brian Carter, Dana Lookadoo, Danny Sullivan, David Mihm, Derek Edmond, Dr. Pete, Duncan Morris, Jane Copland, Jeff Donenfeld, Joshua Sciarrino, Martin Bowling, Monica Wright, Stephan Spencer, Taylor Pratt and Will Critchlow.
P.S.S If you are ever at one of these events and by chance see something on someone’s shirt like say some chocolate from a Twix they ate a couple of hours before lunch then be sure and let them know it’s there. Otherwise, they will walk all around at lunch and throughout the rest of the day with chocolate rubbed in on his/her shirt. That’s not a good way to network now is it? 
New Wordpress Blog & New Blog Look
We have finished converting our Blogger blog over to a Wordpress Blog. With the transfer to Wordpress also came a new look for our blog. So let us know what you think!
Also on a programming note, Regency Interactive will be attending the Experts Seminar being given by SEOmoz so there may not be any new posts next week. However, we should have a “wrap up” type blog post once we get back.
Tags: blogger, misc, wordpressConverting Blog
To all of our readers:
We are currently transferring our blog from Blogger to Wordpress, so until we are through with the transfer there will not be anymore posts. Be sure to check back in with us! Thanks!
Regency Interactive Support Team
No tags for this post.SEO: SEO Site Reviews Step-by-Step
A couple of weeks ago SEOmoz posted a Whiteboard Friday video of SEOmoz Global Associate, Tom Critchlow, explaining the “site review” process. We wanted to summarize what the video was about so that our readers could see just how thorough site reviews are as well as how well thought out they are too!
Feel free to check out the video after you have finished reading our summarization.
- First Impressions - Look at the website as the user would. For example, look at it as far as conversions, usability, long forms and are concerned.
- Accessibility/Spiderability - Look at it as a robot by turning off javascript, cookies & CSS to see what the website looks like; does it have all of the content visible? Also, be sure to check out the robots.txt file to make sure you’re allowing robots to crawl your website. Next, use the crawl test tool on SEOmoz’s website to see if your website is crawlable. Also, be sure to browse as Googlebot so that you can see what it will see.
- Google Health Check - Make sure to do a Google health check, i.e. performing the following:
- site search: “site:regencyinteractive.com” (minus the quotation marks)
- Brand searches such as your company name
- Look at the Google cache and pay particular attention to your important pages to see if your content shows up.
- Duplicate Content - It’s important to make sure that there’s not duplicate content within the web results. Search for content strings within quotations to find content scrapers. Also check the web results for non www vs www versions of your website as well as check all domains look hosted on that particular web server. Look at all of their domains (use site only ip check).
- Website URLS – You need to ensure that the website only has one URL per page. Don’t have a dynamic URL for it as well as a static version. Also, make sure your URLs are clean, short and descriptive with your keywords targeted in them.
- Title Tags - Make sure that your website has unique title tags and that they are descriptive.
- Content Review - Make sure that you have enough content throughout the website and that you also use header tags that contain your keyword phrases.
- Meta Tags - It’s key that you don’t have a meta description that is too long. Also, make sure if there is a robots tag that it has been done correctly.
- Redirects - You should use live http headers (Firefox extension) to check out headers codes and so forth. Also, it’s helpful to check everything else as well.
- Internal Linking - You should check the # of links then check out the # of links on homepage then the # links on category pages to make sure it’s a good ratio and that it will not stand out to the search engines. Also, look to see if there is any anchor text within the content as well as look for links to nofollow. He makes reference to also checking for pagination.
- Geo-location - Make sure your IP address is the right address for your targeted location. Be sure to check out SEOmoz’s tool for this as well.
- External Linking - Look to see what anchor text is pointing to your site to make sure that they’re not all the same anchor text. Review any type of deep linking to make sure that all of the links are not just to the homepage, but are actually spread throughout website. Also, look to see if they look natural. If you have any paid links and they look obviously paid then you need to fix it.
- Semantic HTML - Look through the website to make sure that the website does not have bulky pages (long load time), poorly formatted code or that it’s missing alt/title text relevant to page that it’s linking to on the website.
