Build Leads and Business Using Twitter

Jesse Friedman — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:24:12 +0000

As you read this, millions of people and potential clients are “tweeting”. They are tweeting about everything. The overstressed single mother is tweeting about needing a massage, new homeowners are tweeting about searching for a new home and the newlyweds are tweeting about their upcoming wedding. You might be asking yourself, why do I care about strangers tweeting. Well, if your a real estate agent, Im sure you would love to find potential buyers or if you own a spa wouldn’t it be nice to find people in your local area in need or some rest and relaxation?

Enter, Twitter Advanced Search. Lets take a spa owner for example. You can do a search in twitter for “need a massage” and you can add criteria for a radius around your geographical location. The results will be leads, plain and simple. People in your area, looking for a massage and all you have to do is hit reply to contact them. Offer them “The Twitter Special” free 30 minute massage, Im sure you will gain a client for life.

This works for a variety of businesses. Real estate agents can search for “searching for a home” or “buying a house”. Travel agents can key in on people “looking for a vacation”. The possibilities are endless.

You will also have a nice side-effect which is building your reputation on Twitter. All of these messages you send out will also be on your Twitter account, building content and messages for others to see.

Have any success stories using Twitter or any other simple lead building tactics using social media? Send us a comment and let us know.

Shared Servers effect on Yahoo Search Indexing

Jesse Friedman — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:28:33 +0000

The majority of SEO experts agree that Google places little value whether a site is hosted on a shared server. The only risk noted is that of a spammy site hosted on the same server may have ill effects. None the less, Google has no issues and I can attest to that with some great results had on shared servers. Yahoo, on the other hand might be a little more of a pain when it comes to this. I have one particular site that is really taking a long time to get indexed through Yahoo. Yahoo has a site manager much like Google Webmaster Tools. While a website will usually get indexed in days on Google, I have been on hold for about a month now with Yahoo. After doing a little digging around, I found this little post on the Yahoo SiteSearch Discussion board. It seems another user is having the same issues and a Yahoo representative responded,

I’ve been looking into this case and have identified why your site hasn’t been crawled yet.
Basically, we haven’t been able to crawl because of the number of other sites hosted at your hosting provider and the limited number of connections we can make to their IP address.

I assume your site is hosted by a larger hosting company or is on shared hosting. Usually this means that the hoster will allow many domains to share the same resources, including the IP. What this means to us however, is that we can only crawl a limited number of these sites at a time.

If possible, let me know who you are hosted with and we can *attempt* to contact them and get the situation resolved. I must emphasize that the situation is dependent on them assisting, so I can’t guarantee that it will have a favorable conclusion.

Let me know if/how you want to proceed.

The post goes on without conclusion so far but it seems as though Yahoo sets limits on the amount of sites it will index on a shared server. Just to be safe, if you are on a shared server you might want to try and get a Static IP to appease Yahoo.

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