Blog Marketing

This is my most asked question lately: how exactly do I go about creating a twitter bot? Its really not as complicated as one would think. I will walk you through the process.

Step One: Creating a new twitter account for your bot

First you need to goto twitter.com and log out of any account you are logged into. Then you need to go through the process of creating a new twitter account that you will dedicate to being a bot.

When creating your twitter bot account, keep this in mind. Accounts with seemingly real names and a picture get followed more frequently then obvious made up names and accounts without a picture. The only time to veer from this general thought is when you want to claim SEO of your twitter page.

When I say claiming seo I mean picking a highly relavent name relating to the posts you will make. For example I have recently created a bot @problogmarketer. This name clearly states what my bot tweets will be about and who they will help. They are about marketing with blogs and anyone who has a blog would be interested in following.

Step Two: Make a twitter post
This is an important step! You do not want the first people to find your bot to say to themselves “great another bot”. Instead you want them to be saying “hmm a real person. I think I will follow”. This is a key to making bots! To ensure people think you are real you want to make a post as if you are using twitter for the first time. After all you have no followers at this point.

A simple twitter post like “I am new and trying to make some friends on twitter but not sure I understand things yet” will work wonders. Also your first posts you want to use your popular hashtags. For example I usually try to start out using words like #blog, #blogs, #seo, #sem, and #serp when I set up my marketing blogs.

Another trick to use when making your first post is adding a link to your myspace or facebook profile. For example a great first post could say something like “Hey everyone I am new to twitter but you can find me on facebook at http….”

These types of first posts make people want to follow you more then if you instantly start spamming advertising.

Step Three: Building a following with The MTF Dashboard

Now you want to load up MTF dashboard. If you don’t know what MTF dashboard is yet, check out my post Professional Twitter Marketing Revealed / A Complete Twitter Marketing Solution. This post includes the download link.

MTF Dashboard login

After loading MTF dashboard you want to login to twitter through the dashboard. When logging into the dashboard you really want to pay close attention to what account you are truly signed into. Make sure your dashboard has the correct name for the bot you are working on. Sometimes twitter messes up and logs you other accounts on the same computer.

Next you want to build up your follower list with the MTF dashboard. To do this, pick a very relavent keyword or hashtag – search terms like facebook, myspace, and chat work great for this! If you are using a hashtag note that you can’t use the # sign. You must use %23. So if you want to use the #fb hashtag it would look like %23fb.

Note: You want to disable email notices from your settings before continuing!

MTF Dashboard Logged in

Now put the relevant search term in the “key word” box of MTF dashboard and set the “limit” box to 1000. Then just [start the task]. You want to have at least 100 followers before you go on to step 4. This is highly important. If you start step 4 before you have 100 followers, building your follower list is going to be increasingly harder.

After you get the 100 followers (this can take anywhere from 1 day to 1 week depending how good you are at convinsing people you are real) you are ready for step 4.

Step Four: Adding rss feeds to your bot

This is the fastest and easiest means of getting a bot going. Rss feeds allow you to post automatically to twitter based on titles, descriptions, and links found in the rss feed. So where do you get rss feeds? Well they are everywhere! The first place to look is your blog. After that you are definitely going to want a clickbank account. You can create one by clicking the clickbank link in the MTD dashboard.

Clickbank is a service that allows you to search and pick products to sell and earn commissions on. You are paid via paypal. After you have a clickbank account you need to use the dashboard to visit the clickbank feed generator.

mtf clickbank rss feed

To generate a clickbank feed just add a keyword, add your clickbank id, and create feed. Great keywords, especially for use with a twitter bot are things like “twitter”, “tweets”, and “seo”. After your feed (or feeds) is created, store the feed address somewhere. You will be needing this for step 5.

Gathering up all your feeds and storing them in a text file is what I find to be easiest because you will need this information quiet frequently.

Next you want to go back to the MTF dashboard and find your favorite “free twitter bot” service. My personal recommendation is the first one on the list http://twitterfeed.com/ so thats what I am going to use in this example.

So chose twitterfeed from the dashboard bot list and set up an account. The process is very straight forward and you only need 1 account. You can add as many bots as you need from this account. After creating an account with twitterfeed, login!

mtf twitterfeed

After logging in you should see the feed dashboard. Just click on create new feed, and then plugin the information you want. Note that if you use bit.ly shortening service when creating your bots you can monitor click tracking, HOWEVER its very probably that because of twitters close relationship with bit.ly that it may be monitored. The decision is yours (when I say monitored I mean that twitter may monitor or gain access to statistics and kick out spammers easier during spam sweeps)

My personal preferences when setting up my rss feeds are as follows: Check for new posts every 30 minutes; post up to 5 new updates at a time; Include title only; Shorten link through bitly with no api info given; Post new items based on GUID with sorted feed unchecked.

The next setting is VERY important and will come up later. With feeds you should always use the post suffix, never the prefix. Its just considered standard on twitter. And what do you put there?

Relevant hashtags. If you have a feed about dog products you might want #dogs #pets and #cats. If you have a feed about twitter you want a selection of #twitter #tweet #affiliate #marketing (you are limited by characters just pick favorite and switch them from time to time).

Repeat this process for as many feeds or bots as you want. When you create the bot bot you will be asked what account to attach it to.

Step five: Adding Auto Follow/Auto Dm features to your bot

For adding a DM and auto follow features to my bot, I use the second bot service on the MTF bot list called http://tweetbots.com/. This is very easy to set up. Just login to the service, click bots from the top left menu, click create new bot, add your account information, and check the auto follow and auto DM checkboxes.

mtf tweetbot

When creating your DM avoid using any url’s. Tell people exactly why you are there, what type of information you will be giving them, or in some way say hello and thank them for following. People who get spammed in DM’s are twice as likely to block you.

Step Six: Tweet into the future

For this step I strongly recommend getting a paid account with tweet later. I recommend this because its the only service I have found that allows you to upload future tweets from a bulk text file upload. All the other require manual tweet creation.

However I am going to assume for the sake of this post that you don’t have an pro account. If you just can’t afford or refuse to pay for a professional account ,the work load is going to be nearly 100x but either weay its worth having. For future tweets use your pay dot com style affiliates. These are the ones who don’t provide you feed but instead give you hand selections to chose from.

Grab links to your favorite products and create your posts. Just like when posting via the web, all posts have to be 140 characters including the link. Then log into the first service listed under the tweet into the future of tyhe MTF dashboard. The service is called http://futuretweets.com/.

mtf futuretweets

Create your accounts (you need one account for each bot you have) and login. From that point everything is self explanatory. Just click Schedule and make your posts one by one setting various times in the future. Make a tweet no more then 5 times before changing the wording around. Twitter will block to many of the exact same tweets with the same urls.

At this point you should have a fully functional twitter bot. The only feature it is missing is auto retweets. This is something that is a lot more complicated then a normal bot and I will explain that another time. If you simply MUST know sooner, post a comment.

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This is the hottest twitter application/service at the moment. Watch the video to understand. Basically put, they pay you to build your follower list. AWESOME!!! When I first found this program I didn’t expect it would work, or pay off. I am glad I paid the $1 for my two week trial cause this is just AWESOME! Get in on this before it is too late.

In just under 24 hours of using this program I have already made 2 sales and earned $20. May not seem like much but imagine making $20 a day off just 1 program? Thats $600 a month. Then you add all your other programs in with it, who wouldn’t want to join? This is the easiest and fastest way to grow followers. Check this out before it stops working.

How many ebooks have you seen that can “teach you to get rich in a month”? How many applications have you seen to grow your twitter following? Have you ever even considered one of these ebooks or softwares?

The fact is I have. I’ve actually invest in various ebooks and products that ALL fall short of what was expected or what was claimed. However I have picked up some tricks and tips from some of this reading.

Well I am not one who likes scams, lies, or half truths. So yet again I am going to bring you a secret the twitter marketers don’t want to let people in on. I am letting you in on the secrets of the professionals and I am not charging you one penny to learn them.

First let me start by explaining to you the three main reasons people are using twitter, because honestly it all boils down to three reasons. Some people use it to be social and interact with people on a live basis. They use twitter as a social website much like a large chat that saves what people say.

The others use it to watch their tweet feeds. They scan through see if they have any interesting headlines and if so they click them, if not they post to twitter for a few minutes then go about other business.

Finally we have those trying to market some product or service and make money. That’s the category most of us fit into (at least I assume so if you are reading this blog).

Honestly the first two types of twitter users are the ones we care about. The trick is to appease both types of people. For example, I have my main twitter account @bloggingforbuck. I hardly ever spam this account and when I do I make it plainly obvious by warning my followers first.

I also direct people to my twitter bot @blogging4bucks. The bot is used for one reason, to market goods and products. I do this to appease to those who are on twitter for the feed and not the interaction. In fact I have over 10 bots set up all over twitter under various names.

Why would I do that? Because twitter monitors smaller accounts less plus its just easier that way. If I can get each of 10 accounts to have 2000+ followers, thats effectively marketing to about 10,000 people (some will be duplicates thats why the low number).

So how do I go about building these followers and creating all these bots? Well I have created a free software just for that purpose. This software allows you to mass follow based on search terms, mass unfollow those who don’t follow back, mass unfollow ALL of your followers, create free tweet into the future bots, create free auto return follow bots, create free rss feed bots, create feeds of your affiliate links, and a whole lot more. This is all jammed into one easy to use dashboard.

So are you interested?

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Have you ever really wondered how they do it? These companies out there can guarantee to get you hundreds and thousands of links to your website in a short period of time.

They promise they can tell you simple methods to increase your search engine rankings. Whats best is they all seem to be able to do this in one month or less.

Do you think they are false claims? After all you have been trying for months and can’t even negotiate one hundred link trades, how are they going to get you thousands of links without trading?

And how is it they have the time to take on all these new clients and examine all these web pages? Are they using software to do all this stuff? If so is it really all that great? Or perhaps they are just more false claims?

Well that what I am here to talk about today. I am going to tell you exactly what they do, and how they operate their business. For starters, they don’t have this huge never ending list of sites that all partner with them to increase rankings and links.

Lets talk about these links. How can anyone promise you 1000’s of links in a months time? Can it really be done? To put it simply, yes it can, and its very easy. Its done through a process known as cross social bookmark trading.

First of all let me tell you this is a blackhat method, it flat out breaks the rules. But this method does so in such a way that its almost impossible to get caught. First of all let me explain social bookmarking.

Social bookmarking is a way of sharing sites you like publicly with others. Most social bookmark sites also have features that will push a webpage to the front page of their site if enough people bookmark it. The most popular of social bookmarking sites are digg.com, stumbleupon.com and de.lico.us.

Almost all social bookmark sites have rules against bookmark trading. These rules exist so that you can’t force articles and pages to get more notice by getting more bookmarks. Its usually very easy for bookmarking websites to filter who is trading and who isn’t.

However because of cross social bookmarking that process has become very hard to stop. Cross social bookmarking is the process of trading bookmarks with people across a multitude of sites. For example, I promise to bookmark you on digg if you promise to bookmark me on stumbleupon. I may not even have a stumbleupon account and my site gets a vote. Very hard to stop.

So how do these SEO firms engage in cross social bookmarking? Well until about a year ago this practice was kept very hush hush. However now there exists a website called lavalinx.com that automates the entire process for you. It gets you in touch with other webmasters and monitors all cross bookmark trades. There are literally thousands and thousands of pages to trade social bookmarks with.

The proof however, speaks for itself as to if this free program actually works. Below I have posted some of my stats from using this site in a VERY LIMITED manner. You can see I have made 30 trade requests, so far I have only completed 12 trades successfully. Doesn’t seem like a lot right? But then right after that you see out of the 12 completed trade requests I have received 109 social bookmark links.

Also note my numbers are high because I took the time to sign up for over 75 bookmarking sites. I can bookmark trade with almost anyone of any requirement.

Okay so that explains half of it. That tells you how to get those thousands of links at no cost in a big hurry, which within itself will send your search rankings and seo through the roof! However that doesn’t explain where these sites get the seo reports they are so famous for sending out (that I myself use to draw people to me).

That is also an automated thing, only its not blackhat. Its $10 software. There is a lovely software package that costs $10 that allows you to add websites to it, and completely scans every aspect of the page and its SEO then creates a very easy to understand report that you can use, or send to clients.

I have actually mentioned this software on this blog many times before but it seems people don’t understand the power of it, because I still send out free reports to people all the time using this software and they are amazed at my “expertise” on the subject.

The software I am referring to is WEBCEO. This is an affiliate site but believe me when I tell you with all honestly I use their software everyday, its one of my most valued softwares and I could truly run an SEO consulting company with just this $10 software. If you invest in anything to help with SEO, for your sake I hope its this and not an ebook or some other garbage software.

Today my blog belongs to that of another and it is to him I post and for him I post.

Rest in Peace William Gary Saura III

May God accept you in to his home with the same open and nonjudgmental heart that you accepted me into yours. Today all of my thoughts are with you. Today all of my tears are for you. I hope you have moved on to a better place and that everything that is good awaits you.

You treated me like family and accepted me like family with all my flaws and imperfections. I will never forget you, you truly are my hero. I hope someday to be half the man that you were everyday.

May God bless you and keep you always

Your true friend…
***** *****

Do you have your own personal marketing guru, advertising guru, affiliate guru, or blogging guru? It seems everyone these days has some personal guru. Perhaps you follow your favorite marketing guru’s blog. Perhaps you follow them on twitter and myspace. Perhaps you even get personal coaching from them.

If you do follow a guru of your own, then you are probably wondering why they are continuing to be successful but you are following their methods to a tee and you are not. Is there something they aren’t telling everyone? Well that’s what I am here today to talk to you about.

This little bit of information is what no marketing guru or marketing expert wants you to know. I am about to expose their biggest secret to success. Its what makes them successful and what keeps you from ever becoming successful on their level. In my opinion this is the biggest hoax the world has ever known and it happens by accident.

You want to know the secret of their success? Its really simple. Its fame! What do I mean? Well just sit back and think for a second and it will all become clear.

We have a guy who we will call James. Now James got into blogging when no one new what a blog was. James started his blog just as a side project like so many others do now. Only at the time like I say, no one new what a blog was. No one new google would love the fact blogs were a constantly updated source of information.

No one realized that because of that a blog craze would get started and every business in the world would try to create a blog of some sort. But what James did know is that one day he started to see a bit more traffic to his blog then usual. In fact not just a bit but his traffic almost doubled in a month.

He realized that it was because of this new found craze and he was going to take advantage of it. So James wwent out and started collecting all the tools that he could find that would help him get the word out about his blog. At this time tools were just being developed. Because of this he got the chance to try the best and the worst of tools for free. Some worked and some didn’t.

He figured out what did work for him and went with it. Because he was of the first to do this, as the craze grew on and became more popular, more people started using these tools. The thing was his blog was already their. So naturally people checked it and his blog became more and more popular.

He became rich and it was all by accident. But wait it doesn’t end their!

Because he was the first to use these tools they worked for him, but as the craze went on the tools became less and less effective. Why? More and more people used them until the blog tools were not much different then the search engine tools. We all know how hard it is to get a website number one in a search engine when you are fighting 300,000,000,000 people for the same tame? Well thats how it became for bloggers.

But James already made his money and had his claim to fame. So he didn’t care that these tools no longer worked. What he did know was that now 250,000 people were watching everything he typed. He could sell a new product faster then ever because people started saying “well he must know what he’s doing because he is successful”.

So James decides he is going to write an ebook about marketing. The truth is the ebook is 2nd rate and not very useful to many people with a lot of made up statistics and facts. It didn’t matter though because with 250,000 people thinking he knew his stuff it would still sell. So he publishes the ebook and charges people $50 a copy for his inside “secrets”. now out of his 250,000 readers, 100,000 buy his new ebook.

Guess what? He just made $5M and he can claim he is STILL a marketing guru, after all how else could his ebook be so successful as to make him $5M? But the fact is the ebook was only successful because he was famous within his own right.

This is the scam behind most marketing gurus and blogging gurus. They don’t know what they are talking about and they are only successful because they were at the right place at the right time. This is what makes most MLM people fail but the higher up levels continue to make money. They had a claim to fame when the company was first created and ran with it even after things were falling apart! People trusted them, they got rich because of it and others got poor.

So how do you avoid self proclaimed gurus and find legit gurus? Its HARD! Especially now that people have gotten into the practice of displaying their earnings online. I have a really simple tip though. If a person is only marketing one product, one company, one idea, one ebook, or MLM they don’t have a clue. They got rich and ran with it.

Why do I say this? Because those who REALLY figure out marketing online, realize its more profitable to sell in QUANTITY!!! No marketing and/or affiliate professional is making 2M a year off one product unless its via a claim from fame. Instead a good affiliate marketer, a good marketing professional, and a good blogger will be able to show you a portfolio of things they do and/or have been involved in.

For example in the past 10 days of using Adollow:

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Or my last months earnings with PayDotCom:

Paydotcom earnings

I could post over 100 different sales accounts I have that all make between $30 and $100 a month. You can try to calculate the math and tell me if you think I am a success or not. Nope I didn’t have an ebook that sold 5 million copies, nope I didn’t happen to be in the right place at the right time, and no most of the marketing professionals I know can’t help me achieve the results I get.

I have no secret to my success. I do everything I claim I do in the blog. As I do more I post more (okay I’ll be honest not EVERY trick I use is posted yet but they are all coming and if sked none of them are hidden!)

Why is this important to tell people? Because the truth is I know many people who follow these self proclaimed guru experts and will swear by their advise when the truth is if they stopped spending all this money making an already rich person even richer, perhaps they would find a website like this were they can learn some truths behind marketing, advertising, and blogging.

So I posted an article a while back called The Best Kept Marketing Secret revealed. I actually received a couple of emails and got a couple of tweets that basically said that was one of my worst posts ever.

Well if you are of the many who didn’t fully grasp the concept of why viral tweet is so powerful I am here with a part two of that first posting. I am going to show you why viral tweet is so powerful and why everyone should be using it to market with twitter.

After you have installed viral tweet you get a series of configuration options. Depending if you have a free or paid account defines just how many options you have. Of those options is one that says “Redirect URL” (this is in both free and paid versions). This redirect url is what truly gives the power to the free viral tweet.

Why? Because all sorts of offers can take place with that tweet code. Take for example my ebook, Article Marketing Secrets. Now this ebook costs $5.00 a copy. On top of that I have this software called the forum seeker which is also $5.00.

Now because of the power of the free viral tweet I can set up a page in a secret location and use the redirect url to offer people a discount on purchasing both packages by simply using the viral tweet code.

Here is exactly what I mean.

If you click on the viral tweet I have posted below, you will get taken to a totally separate page where you can have both my ebook and my software absolutely free!

Download The following software and ebooks absolutely free!

The Blog Seeker

The Forum Seeker

The Keyword Seeker

Article Marketing Secrets

I have tried explaining this to people, I just can’t seem to explain it.

Its free blog marketing,
its free website marketing,
its free affiliate product marketing,
its a way to sell advertising space on your website
and make real money.

What I will say is this, its totally free to join and they give you real money to try their service with.

I beg you please buy ad space on my website using their free service for telling you this. PLEASE!!!!

I will return the favor to as many people as I can! I promise!

Whats it hurt to try something free? This idea is going to spread very fast and not be free for long so please help me out, sign up for an account and buy advertising on my website.

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