10 Twitter Commandments

April 10, 2009 · For those of us who have been using twitter for awhile and are starting to get into the groove, I threw together a list of 10 Twitter commandments to keep you on the right track and keep you from committing Twitter blasphemy.

1.Thou shall not act spammy. i.e Don’t send an auto reply DM asking me to check out your blog or download your crappy E-book. FAIL! Let me put it this way: Would you walk up to a stranger, slam your business card down and say “I have a new E-book that just came out and you can get it at a reduced price if you join my mailing list!” Of course not, people would think you were insane. Networking online is no different than in real life. Just be authentic, add value to the community, and people will naturally want to know more about you. That’s the way it works online!

2.Thou shall not be boring. In other words don’t take the “what are you doing right now” too literally. No one wants to hear about you eating a bowl of cheerios. If you aren’t always skydiving or flying over the grand canyon, no problem. Just keep in mind the idea is to be a resource and add value to the community.

3.Thou Shall not Tweet with beer goggles on. Similar in concept to Googles gmail mail goggles If you are the kind of person that maybe enjoys a cocktail here and there you may want to really think through what you’re tweeting and perhaps if you should even be doing so while in such a state. For heavens sake, your clients don’t need to know if you are at somewhere getting drunk on Friday night.

4.Thou shall not Tweet using four letter words or other profanity. I’m certain there are individuals that will disagree with me on this and they are also the same individuals I’ll quickly unfollow. Especially if you are using twitter for business/networking as many people do. Twitter is about expressing yourself in 140 characters or less and certainly we can find more creative ways to do this than dropping the F-Bomb left and right. It’s just good taste really.

5.Though shalt have a reason to be on twitter! Yeah we all know Twitter is going mainstream. Smart people are jumping on board now, or they’ll get left behind. But think about what your favorite super star Joel said.”value, value, value!”, make people happy with your tweets or anything else that you do!

6.Thou shall not have a profile with little or no information about thy self. Have a link to your website or blog. If you don’t have a website or blog then use your myspace profile or something. Have a brief description of yourself. Why on earth would I want to follow someone that I know nothing about? Let’s go! Get on it people!

7.Thou shall not leave the default avatar on thy twitter profile page. If you can’t take 10 seconds to change the default avatar image then you’re clearly not taking the platform seriously!

8.Thou shall not mass follow with no regard to who they are following in hopes that they will get followed back by a large number of people (following spam). Not only is this a bad idea but it can actually get you banned from twitter. You can read more about this at the Twitter blog. What is following spam?

9.Thou shall not be a annoying. Change your tweets up. Change your style up! It gets spammy after a while.

10.Thou shall not use the default Twitter background. This is similar to not using the twitter avatar. By changing the default background you can make your profile look more professional and it also shows your taking a serious approach to using twitter. You can either design a custom background yourself or you can use a company like twitback.com You can see an example of my Twitter background at http://twitter.com/JoelJRoberts

So follow me as well at http://twitter.com/SimonRosenberg

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Chances are you saw a generic page that said something
like, “The page cannot be displayed,” or “Not Found,”
or “The requested URL was not found on this server.”

This is what is more commonly known as the 404 Error
Page.  It’s the page that shows up by default when
someone ‘accidentally’ types in the address of the page
they are looking for on your site incorrectly.

Now, in many cases, it truly happens by mistake. However,
in many other instances, people end up on this page
because they are snooping around trying to look for your
download page or thank you page without having to pay
or opt-in.  Kind of shady, but people do it. 

Why, not capitalize on it whether they are doing it
purposely or they are truly ending up there by accident.
If you have your own website and it gets traffic, some
of your visitors are ending up on that page.  Now, if
they are seeing the generic message that their browser
shows them when it happens, then you are not making
good use of your web real estate.

Every page of your website can put money in your pocket.
Even your 404 error page.  You can customize that page
just like any other page on your website.

Some ideas to utilize on that page include:

-Making an special offer at a discounted price.
-Having it be a squeeze page.
-Making it an Adsense page.
-Redirecting it to a related affiliate product.

Those are just a few of the many different, yet profitable
types of ways you can make good use of your 404 error page.

It won’t make you rich, but it definitely will put some
extra money in your account.  Maybe it will help you pay
one of your bills, or you can just reinvest it into your
business.

Either way, if you don’t customize this page, you can be
leaving money on the table.  Having something for your
visitors to see that end up on that page is extremely more
beneficial to you then not having anything on that page.

Here’s to making good use of every page on your website.

All the best,
Simon

Resource Box:
If you want to learn even more effective methods to make
the most of your 404 Error Pages, then make sure you visit
http://www.404secrets.com/404/?thankyou-page=29781

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