Friday, July 17, 2009

How to get more Twitter followers

In response to Promote your twitter and how you can get more followers, I sat down and wrote this short article.


I'm not really interested to write it. I focus on a new blog, which I'm going to launch in few days.
So I'm writing this post to reply to your comments, emails and tweets: How to get a mass of twitter followers.

If you doubt about my strategies, no they do "mass" following to your twitter account. Just check mine with more than 20,000 followers.

So you think I'm going to tell you a big secret how I did it and built this strong (yet very weak) following over twitter.
It's all about mass following; but let me tell you: it's crappy and useless.

Mass following, huge following... crazy twitter following... everyone did it!!!
So it's useless, because anyone can do it. If something anyone can do it in few clicks, then it's useless.

Let me give you an example.
Let assume we are in 95, there's a huge number of web user, however a little number of websites. Only professional and engineers can build websites. Then, there will be few websites, and professionals will profit a lot.
Now in 96, there's the same number of users, but anyone can build a website, rank it high and drives lead... So for the engineers it becomes useless because they have to fight with an ever ending community.

Few months ago, when the Twitter following bubble was in the top, I sell a 1,000 follower twitter account with $50 or more, few weeks it worths $10. Now it worths $0, yes exactly $0.

Conclusion:
The twitter bubble has just began, however the following bubble dead completely! If you want to have serious followers, that reads your tweets like RSS feeds, then build something interesting.
Now you can spread the word with twitter with exactly 10 followers!

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Create your web application instantly

All of you know that I’m a PHP developer and I code a few sites. But I’m always surprised!
I’m always wondering about the work programmers do to code their startups. They do a lot of work? How can they build powerful websites and applications with multiple functions and AJAX support...
Now I no longer wonder, they just hack, scripts like iScript!

For example to create a social network like Mysppace, orkut… iScripts makes it easy for you with a professional program iScript Social Ware.
As of always I have tried the demo
User Name: demouser@iscripts.com
Password : demouser
The application seems to be full of functionalities but the templates is not well tweaked at least with Google Chrome.
Any way, this give me new inspiration for my Twitter Community that I’m preparing its launch the next months..
Using this social networking tool is fast and easy and better than posting on Freelancers websites “Facebook clone for $200” which is something impossible.
Yet with this Open Source Social engine it’s possible! It costs only $99!

The iScript have also another bunch of software, that will be especially useful for webmasters and startup owners, like the MultiCart script that function like Amazon or iboutique mall which is a multi vendor shopping cart.

It has also a professional website builder (Iscript Easycreate) with an WYSISWYG editor and a set of professional layouts. It works like sitezen but have a high price that worth it.


The iScript have also a surprise for you! The EasySnaps script that allow to host images for free or even paid. It’s a simple Imageshake clone! Don’t you think that it’s interesting to host images? Me also, but getting a Digg submit that goes popular and bring 100,000 in 8 hours or less may be interesting.. for a simple photo submitted by user and dugg by a ‘power’ user.

Finally I want to say: Start your business!
Whether you want to start it with iScripts or one of its competitors or even start it from scratch! You are free, plan a project, code it, find a hosting, start and go!!

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Make money while participating on forums

Few days ago (only 3 days), I found a great new way to make money online: Posting on pay per post (thread) forums.
One of those forums is Make Money Kingdom.
The forums pays with Paypal or Moneybookers, which means wherever you are, you can earn money, especially for those who can’t create a Paypal account because of their country.
I have read some reviews about it and joined. The moderators seems to pay for long time and them there’s no risk to put some time and effort investment on those forums.

Yet you get paid for every thread and every post as following
3 Gold Coins for each post
4 Gold Coins for each thread
250 Gold Coins for each person your refer

And then you get paid once you reach 1000 Gcs which is $10!
Easy, no? So you should make about 300 posts in order to get the money, but there are many problems…

• You can’t post more than 20 posts in paid sections (and paid sections are another problem which means not all forums part are paying!!)
• If you get an infraction so it’s less 200 Gcs
• There’s a little members so you can't be so active :(
• Minimum payout is $10

So it’s not easy to make $10 a month, right? But hey there’s another solution ‘Referrals’
Yes, you can do referrals and get paid 250 Gcs, but only if your referral is active or you get paid only 25 Gcs!

Here’s a look on my profile

I have been active a little bit and then I got bored so I turned it into referrals.
If my 6 referrals become active this mean I would make an additional 1350 Gcs.
So I have to wait and see my program results.
This forum can makes me cool money, if just I refer 15 people each month, I would earn $40 with some activities on forums.. Supposing they are all (referrals) active!
What do you wait?
Love forums? Join and get paid to post
Want Money? Join refer people and get paid

Friday, February 6, 2009

Why I didn't rank high on Google?

Readers who have read 'How to rank high on Google', would ask now:

Why the blog post didn't ranked high as I predicted, it's just ranking 5th for the term.
The answer is so simple : I did optimize the page, but no the blog.
Google rule is very simple.
As more simple it is, the more better it does
And this is why yesterday I come up and fetched the blog source code.
The sidebar widget is affecting negatively my blog, because it preceed the post and there's more than 30 Javascript code.

I noticed this with Google APS, a simple website who ranked quickly for the term 'Google APS' just because I created a cleaner template with less widgets (no at all) and scripts.
If widgets are vital for your blog, then there's only one solution : Move to Wordpress
The advantage on Wordpress is that it uses PHP, PHP is compiled before Google crawl the blog, then no long Javascript snippets.
But if you want to use Wordpress, then you should affrod some hosting costs and I don't recommand free hostings at all!!

Keep up with the blog, I'm going to update this post to tell you about the results of my experiment, it may takes a week or two

Saturday, January 3, 2009

I have +1,000 Twitter follower

Today my twitter account cross the 1,000 followers level.
I'm happy, but what's next?

Yet I discovered something serious... Twitter don't work!
Yes Twitter don't work as I want it, because the quality of followers is getting worse than ever.
When Twitter first was launched, I got some followers, and a rival of dozen of visitors comparing to the number of followers.

Now I notice that people no longer look on your tweets, that's simple.
Every one now, is social, like me, have thousands of followers, this lead to two things

  • The more people you follow, the less you'll read their twits, you can keep with 10 or 15 friends tweets but not 3000!
  • I no longer click on links, I feel that they are promotional and want to gain from my traffic and I think most of people does.
So I change from Twitter?
Yet, I think FaceBook can be another solution but won't provide rival of traffic.

The problem with Twitter, is 'The Wrong Growth'.
You can have (will have) more followers, but the result is always the same. This is because not only people are joining Twitter, but also because current members are addicted to click the Follow button and follow anyone.

Here's a picture (old) that shows the number of followers for top 100 on Twitter Holic
Now here's a newer one

There had been an unusual growth on Twitter and the result is 'Quantity Trumps Quality'!
But I want to know if this happened to you also??

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