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Taking Back FollowFriday the Chris Brogan Way

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Earlier today Chris Brogan tweeted about an idea he had regarding the Twitter FollowFriday Trending Topic and a cool way to give props to the cool people you follow on Twitter and Turn Twitter’s Follow Friday in Blog Traffic at the same time. Curious? Read on to see how you can join the movement to take back FollowFriday on Twitter, Chris Brogan style!

Help spread the word: Turn Follow Friday into blog traffic. Link to a post of your favorite followers. (pls rt?) On 2:23 PM Apr 9th 2010 from Seesmic

In essence, the idea involves creating a blog post that highlights the folks you’d like to recommend for FollowFriday and linking to it from a status update that get’s posted to Twitter like the one from Chris Brogan below:

My list of people to follow for this Friday - http://bit.ly/b8Fg3S On 2:36 PM Apr 9th 2010 from Seesmic

A Quick Note About FollowFriday

The point of FollowFriday is to mention someone you’re friends with and why you think they are the cats meow, thus “introducing” them to your followers and helping forge new connections and help build relationships in your social circle. Of late though, the problem is that all too often FollowFriday Twitter status updates contain little more than a list of names followed by a hashtag making them of little or no use at all.

Count Me In

Originally @ADSMitchell, @VSellis and I had agreed to lobby for better quality FollowFriday Twitter updates by including only one user per update, a reason to follow them and the #FF or #FollowFriday hashtag (and getting our friends to do the same), but I prefer this "post and tweet" approach to FollowFriday for several reasons:

  • It’s a great way to put the users you recommend in context as you’re no longer restricted to 140 characters.
  • Your message more meaningful to followers and invites interaction outside of the Twitter community in general.
  • It’s extra (and original) content for your blog, which is community focused and generates goodwill.
  • If used effectively , it could be used to produce link worthy content (think top 10 lists and link bait).

Moving Swiftly Along

So, look out for my new FollowFriday posts, featuring some of my favourite friends from Twitter. (Who knows? Maybe your mug will be in one of them!)

First Look at SEO Wushu Box Art

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SEO Wushu System

SEO Wushu System

I just put together the first draft of the box art for another project I am working on over at SEOwushu. SEOwushu is a new eLearning product that I’m working on in my spare time, my first info product that will help people build and market their own online businesses.

Think of SEO Wushu as the Wudang School for Marketing Masters!

So far i think the box is looking pretty cool, but lacks the necessary product information to make it a useful image. I think the box also needs some dust and scratches or a textured cover to make it look more authentic. I’ll post the table of contents at a later stage, perhaps as the rear of the box to give you a hint at what inside and open that up to you for feedback as well.

I’d love to hear what you think of it and if you have any comments or suggestions on improving it I would be delighted as well. The feedback is always appreciated.

If you would like to stay updated on this project, please visit SEO Wushu and subscribe to the rss or email feeds available and I’ll be in touch as and when things develop.

10 Tips for Improving Blog Traffic

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In every bloggers life comes a special day – the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else’s blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader – you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that’s about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.

Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers. These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.

It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is called "traction", which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers. Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.

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