Leo Fogarty .com » Social Networking

Finally getting Paid to Tweet!

Leo — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:53:13 +0000

Its the statement we all want to be able to say! Whether your pushing affiliate programs, selling your own products or subscription services, everybody is trying to monetize twitter. Finally there is a service which will pay you to tweet. It’s called SponsoredTweets.com and its authorised by Twitter and brought to you by the IZEA network.

Basically SponsoredTweets pays you per Tweet that is authorised by their advertiser. They calculate how much your tweet is worth based on your influence/follower count. So the lower your twitter following, the lower you get paid.

It has a real simple interface and is very easy to get setup on:

Check it out and start getting paid to tweet!

Ever wanted to know where someone has been on the net? Follow their comments!

Leo — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:37:30 +0000

No matter who you are there is always somebody out there who is better or who gets information before you. Trying to keep up can sometimes be difficult without the proper tools. The best way to keep up is by tracking what websites they are visiting and interacting on. Let me introduce a service that allows you to do just that, Backtype.com.

What does Backtype do?

Backtype is a comments search engine with a bit more functionality. Basically you can enter any url and it will list all websites where it has commented on, so you can build up a profile of what websites of where they are interacting and commenting on. Not only that but you can follow certain websites and be alerted when they have created a new comment on any site. To give you an example below is a screenshot for Richard Hearnes excellent SEO site RedCardinal.ie:

Along the right hand side you can see all the websites they have commented on. As you’d expect foran seo consultant there are a lot of seo related websites.

What else can you do with Backtype.com?

They have a feature called “Connect” and this feature is great if your a blogger. Have you ever wanted to know what articles or topics get the most reactions? Sure you can use the search function of technorati but what about the reactions on all the new social media sites like twitter etc? To show you an example I’ve put in Shoemoney’s site to see what articles of his have generated the most comments.

As you can see his article about making money from Twitter generate huge reactions which gives me suggestions for my next post.

Just Reached Our 1st Twitter Milestone – 1000 followers!

Leo — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:31:26 +0000

Well after 18 days I’ve finally reached my first Twitter milestone. We’ve got a 1000 followers. In honour of of this achievement, I’d like to share with you the twitter tools I use and why I like to use them.

Twollow.Com

Twollow is a great service whch will allow you to automatically follow people on twitter based on the keywords they use in their tweets. It is a great way to follow people with the same interests as you!. For Affiliate Marketing purposes you can use it to follow people interested in your niche. Hopefully they will follow you back

Twist.Flaptor.Com

Twist is a nice little app that allows you to monitor trends in twitter. Want to see what the best time of the week to tweet about Affiliate Marketing? Want to see who the top tweeters are about your niche? Twist can help! Below is a graph monitoring tweets about Affiliate Marketing.

Twitalyser.Com

Twitalyser will allow you to evaluate the activity of any Twitter user and report on relative influence, signal-to-noise ratio, generosity, velocity, clout, and other useful measures of success in social media.

UseQwitter.Com

I love Qwitter.com because its developed by an irish company. It has been developed by Eoin and the lads at contrast.ie . Qwitter e-mails you when someone stops following you on Twitter with a message that details what the last tweet you did which caused them to stop following you.

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Free MySpace MyAds $25 Voucher

Leo — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:51:06 +0000

I just watched an excellent webinar on MySpace MyAds by Lisa from the MySpace MyAds team and was rewarded with an excellent gift at the end, a free $25 coupon thats valid for one week.

So here’s the code : web06250925

I really like the targeting buckets of MySpace, they have refined their demographic targeting right down to what colour underwear your wearing!! You can choose to target by marital status, occupation, interests, hobbies, right down to the football teams you support. My other favourite thing about MyAds is the cost, the traffic is a lot cheaper than google, you can pick up traffic for as little as 1c.

So have fun with your free $25 and remember try and grow it using affiliate marketing!!

Facebook Personal URL’s

Leo — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:22:15 +0000

If you haven’t heard yet, which is virtually impossible because it’s all over the internet, starting on 13 June, at 05:01 (New York Time), you’ll be able to choose a username for your Facebook account.

So What Does This Mean For Me?

Basically it means you will be able to get a nice looking search engine friendly url like

www.facebook.com/leofogarty

www.facebook.com/nike

Wheres The Catch?

Well the catch is the following, to claim your personal url you had to be a member before they made this anouncement on June 9th. For any new accounts created after this date, you will have to wait until June 28th, this is to prevent url squatting.

Update – So what URL did you get?

Well I got all the ones I wanted specifically www.facebook.com/leofogarty

So what did you get? Leave your url in the comments section!!!!