Have  you had much success with Twitter?  Have you been bombarded recently with emails telling you how to become a “Twitter Ninja” and how you can build a huge following, and use that to generate a chunk of change on demand?

Well, if you’ve on any Internet Marketer’s email list you’re bound to have come across such offers, and you may or may not have had any success with them.  Once thing I’ve noticed though, is that all of these “Twitter marketing systems” have been missing a huge opportunity for using Twitter to help increase your natural search engine traffic… let me explain!

Twitter allows you to search in real time.  What that means, if you can find out what people are tweeting NOW, by the minute, 24/7.  That means when a news story breaks, or a product gets released, or an important blogger writes a hot article you can start to get people’s reactions right away.  That gives you an opportunity to create followup content, and get ranked fast for things you know people will be searching for in the coming days.

The easiest way to explain this is with an example…

Twitter natural search bump

One of my websites is a free Flash games portal called Kwikgames.  The site hosts a bunch of free games and draws quite a decent amount of traffic which is then monetized through advertising and selling brended games.  One of the most popular games this year is called Crush The Castle.

A few days ago, the makers of Crush The Castle released an update.  Called, Crush The Castle Player’s Pack, it was essentially a sequel with 50 new levels.  Within hours hundreds of game site owners were tweeting about the new release in the hope of getting people to their sites to play the new game.  I saw some of these tweets, and immediately added the game to Kwikgames, and wrote a short blog post about the game.  24 hours later I added another short blog post, both of which linked to the game game…

The result?  Within 48 hours of reading those first tweets I was on the first page of Google for the game, and my stats were showing a steady stream of visitors to the new game… visitors that were coming direct from natural search and which I wouldn’t have had if I’d not been on Twitter!

The best part is that this is so simple, and easy to repeat.  Just keep an eye on Twitter, see what’s hot, create a blog post or two and bingo - a boost in your traffic.  I believe it can be done in any niche, at any time.  OK, so you’ll need a site which already ranks reasonably well in Google, but any half decent blog with a PR4+ would easily suffice.

So there you go - my method for an instant traffic boost from Twitter!  Give it a try, and leave a comment with your results!

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After a prolonged period of absence from this site, I’ve decided to start blogging here again on a regular basis.  I won’t go into detail about the reasons, suffice to say that 2009 has been a strange and busy year for me.  From getting married, to starting a number of new businesses, I’ve had a lot going on and I’ve changed tac more than once with my online businesses thoughout the year.  Things have now settled though, and as my online businesses have matured I’ve decided it’s time once again to start up this blog and share my thoughts and ideas.

From reading emails from visitors, and comments left on posts, and also due to the changes in my own businesses, I will be changing the focus on the blog to a degree.  While it will still be focussed on online business, working from home, and building multiple streams of income using the web, my future posts are likely to be less elementary.

In the past I’ve blogged about such topics as time management, building CMS sites with Wordpress, and creating content, I believe that the majority of my readers are looking for information which is of more immediate use.  So I’ll be sharing tips and ideas to help you develop your online businesses, which you can implement today!  From great tools I’ve found online, to methods for increasing traffic or conversions, to methods for improving site design, I’ll still be sharing everything I find but many of the posts are likely to be shoerter, more to the point, and of more use to the average online entrepreuer.

I hope you like the new format, and if you do I hope you join in the conversation and leave the odd comment.  Over the next couple of weeks I’ll be sharing some background about businesses successes I’ve had in recent months, including my results from trialing the Niche Profit Classroom system which I blogged about in the spring.  I also have a freebie for anyone who uses Flash, and a way of using Twitter to actually give real results fast and increase your traffic.  So watch out for those, and add me on Twitter, Facebook or join the email newsletter to stay in touch…

It’s good to be back!

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Just a final reminder that the Niche Profit Classroom $1 trail ends today.  This offer won’t be repeated, so don’t miss out.  If you want to start making a substantial income right away this is the best way to do it!

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If you’re a beginner to online business, maybe you’ve even yet to make your first dollar, I’ve got some good news for you!  This year’s 30 Day Challenge is just starting now!

The 30DC run a pet project of Ed Dale, of Stompernet fame, and is far and away the best and most complete free course on Internet business.

As the name suggests, the course lasts for 30 days, and each day you’ll learn new skills with the aim of making a profit by the end of the course.  Now in its third year, 30DC has produced amazing results with past students, and each year it seems to get better and better.  In fact, even if you did 30DC last year and you’re already making a living online, I still suggest taking this year’s challenge (I am!!) because they always teach the latest tools and tactics and I defy anyone to take the course and not learn something that will move their business forward.

Head over to Thirty Day Challenge now and see what it’s all about!  The challenge itself kicks off tomorrow, but there is already a ton of pre-challenge training on the site, and the daily training videos stay up all year so even if you don’t read this post for a couple of weeks or months it’s still totally valid!

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I said that I had some BIG news for today, and here it is…

Niche Profit Classroom are relaunching with a whole bunch of new features, and for the relaunch promotion they are offering a month’s trial for just $1.

The offer runs only for the next week, and is never to be repeated so head over to Niche Profit Classroom and check out the in depth video to see what it’s all about.  You can even grab a couple of free sample videos there teaching you exactly how their “Money word matrix” system works and how to find profitable niches really easily.

If you’ve been following my blog for a while you’ll have ready about my successes with the NPC system earlier this years.  It’s by far the best coaching system I’ve come across for building profitable websites fast, and the information and support given are suitable for complete beginners to more advanced marketers.

The system includes all the core video training, plus loads of extra videos on specific subjects, software tools, monthly coaching webinars and a private forum.

If you’re at all interested in building an online income, or supplementing your existing income then do yourself a favour and head over to the site and watch some of the free videos to see just how good their conten is.  I promise you won’t regret it!

[Visit Niche Profit Classroom]

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As an online entrepreneur I’m always on the lookout for new opportunities.  In recent months I’ve taken advantage of several, and I’d like to share some of those with you to show just how much opportunity there is out there…

Multiple Streams of Income

I read Robert G Allen’s Multiple Streams of Online Income a while ago.  It’s quite an old book now (first published in 2001) but some of the core ideas are still valid today… the main one being that to have a solid financial independence you need MULTIPLE streams of income.  Not A website, or A service, but a number of independent income sources.

With that in mind I was inspired to take the Niche Profits Classroom course after listening to an interview with one of the founders on Yaro Starak’s blog.

If you read my early posts about the course you’ll already know how powerful I thought it was, and within just a couple of weeks I’d launched my first ‘niche profits’ website, Boa Care, based on one of my long time hobbies/obsessions - snake keeping.

I wrote a simple ebook, built a simple site following the video tutorials and guidelines in the Niche Profits Classroom, and marketed the site via simple but effective free means.  The results were outstanding, with first page Google rankings within days, not months, and sales following shortly after.

I’ve since launched other NPC style sites, and my current ‘big project’ is a much larger, in depth tutorial based site based on the same principles… but the concept remains the same, building MULTIPLE websites which are independent and are not reliant on one source of traffic.

If the idea of building small, targeted niche sites interests you watch out for some BIG news on this blog tomorrow!

My next project after Boa Care was to relaunch an old site - Kwikgames.com Kwikgames started as a portfolio for some simple Flash games I’d written back in 2003 as a way of teaching myself Flash.  I’d done virtually nothing to the site in several years, and it was very neglected but I knew it had potential.

I decided to rebuild and relaunch the site, incorporating some marketing concepts that I’d learned from NPC, and within a very short time my traffic and revenue had started to increase significantly.  I’ll now be adding new content on a regular basis with the aim of building the traffic and revenues steadily into a large income stream.

Finally, I’ve been working on a lot of freelance work.  I get several projects every month from sites such as Getafreelancer.com and ScriptLance.com It’s a great way of getting new clients, and so long as you’re careful about choosing which projects to bid on, and pitching your bid correctly (see my earlier post about how to get the most from freelance sites) it can be a substantial and steady income source.

My current ‘big project’ is under wraps at the moment but I’ll be posting about it very shortly.  It’s a full video based course which has been a steep learning curve for me, but I believe it has the potential to become one of my primary income streams quite quickly… and I’ll be telling you all about how I did it very soon!

So - the point of this post was firstly to let you know what I’ve been up to recently, and also to share the idea of multiple streams of income.  It’s a great feeling to have cheques from Clickbank every month for ebook sales, Paypal deposits from affiliates, advertising revenue from my games site, cheques and wire transfers from clients… because I know that if something happened and i lost one of those income sources I could still rely on the others!

If you’d like to know how to add new income sources to your business, very quickly, and very cheaply, then check back for a special announcement tomorrow (or sign up for my email newsletter and you’ll get an early notification of this big news!)

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