Why Guest Blogging Is Still A Major Part Of SEO
As you know, I help businesses online to achieve better year end sales through online marketing campaigns and SEO services.
From time to time I also get involved with other SEO professionals in the industry like Adam White from GuestPostTracker who Im currently working with to help test out a few great SEO tools that him and his team developed to make my job as a Digital Marketer easier…
As I started out doing research, as I always do and found that this was a amazing asset to my digital tools arsenal.
Here is what Adam had to say about the Tool and What Guest Blogging means for SEO
There are a lot of questions in the SEO world on whether guest blogging and posting on other websites is a legitimate way to build links anymore.
I started Guest Post Tracker almost a year ago because in spite of what I had heard from basically every SEO “expert” (including Google) I was getting great results with guest posting.
As I did guest posting on behalf of my clients, their rankings continued to improve as I did my due diligence, guest blogging for business.
Because it worked so well I found myself spending hours upon hours trying to find more websites that accepted guest blogging opportunities online.
There were a few free lists out there that were created before Matt Cutts dropped the bomb on guest posting and but since his announcement those lists hadn’t been updated.
I only had one option, I needed to create my own list if I were going to continue to meet all of my guest blogging goals for my clients.
I literally started going through these lists one by one and doing searches on my own finding actual blogs that were still accepting posts from outside content writers.
I began putting together what I referred to as the real ultimate list of guest blogging sites.
It was a list that quickly grew to over 1000 blogs, all legitimately owned by businesses or established bloggers! No small feat.
SEO colleagues of mine begged me for access to the list and I realized this was a major need for anyone doing SEO.
It was at this point I decided to build GuestPostTracker.com a guest blogging tool for other professionals in the industry.
I took this huge list and organized it into about 30 categories which made it much easier to find blogs in whatever niche my client’s website was in.
I then created software to help me keep track of my submissions to all of these sites.
Guest Blogging for SEO
So through the entire submission process I could track each guest post.
It made it super easy for me to find blogs in any category and submit a guest post to them because it was all in one place.
Guest Blogging Software – GuestPostTracker.com
When I started the site I didn’t have an existing audience to sell it to so I decided to test the validity of the entire site.
Proof That Guest Posting Works
I wanted to prove that guest posting still works by promoting Guest Post Tracker with guest post links.
Obviously the website was new and so the SEO was starting from scratch.
I started submitting one guest post after another.
(Pro tip: don’t start trying to submit to the biggest most authoritative blogs on the list. Establish yourself first in the lower and middle tier blogs and then you can use that to pitch the bigger publications. That’s how I did it.)
Guest Posting Tool
I linked back to not just my homepage but also blog posts and other internal pages of the site. I also made sure that all of my links had a good mix of anchor text. This is extremely important in SEO. In case you’re wondering I used software that I developed to create the natural link profile for the site. (It’s currently in beta)
Within a few months I was starting to rank for phrases like “real estate guest post” and “business guest post”. Soon it was top 3 for any phrase that was {category name} + guest post.
Guest Post Blogging = SEO Results
After a few more months I was on page one for “guest posting sites”, “guest blogging sites”, and even “guest post”.
I was only building links one way, through guest posts.
Guest Post Tracker went from no traffic to over 3500 visitors a month in about 6 months all in a very specific niche.
It was living proof that you could take a brand new website and with guest posting rise up and dominate the search engines.
So if you hear SEO people tell you guest posting is dead, don’t believe it.
If you post on legitimate blogs and create great content you will see not only a direct influx of traffic but also a very real SEO benefit as well.
Make your SEO campaign more comprehensible with these 5 strategies
[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1459404147420{margin-bottom: 40px !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_col-lg-9 vc_col-md-9″ css=”.vc_custom_1452702342137{padding-right: 45px !important;}”][stm_post_details][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1471429677280{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]Google’s algorithms changes frequently in SEO industry, but it doesn’t mean that you have to overhaul or update your entire strategy every time when a new update rolls out. Using these five strategies mentioned below simplifies SEO campaign that will stand even in the time of test. It does not mean what changes the search engines make in its algorithms.
Emphasis less on keyword research and more on market research: Old SEO laid more emphasis on keyword research. This requires the webmasters to spend hours measuring expected search volume against the relative competitiveness of each keyword. It not only consume more time but is also becoming a far less viable approach as Google limits the amount of keyword data made available to SEO workers.
Instead of wasting the time in chasing data that is not accurate, simplify your research by pondering a list of keywords, you believe your customers are likely to search for and start building the content around these phrases. After a month or so, check the stats and then add more content for phrases that are performing well and if not working well, then refocus your efforts on a new set of potential keywords or queries.
Use SEO tools seamlessly: It is worth to include page or post Meta description from a usability point of view. If you write an extra thrilling Meta description that displays in search results listings and encourages a user to click through your site, then it is a win to your website in terms of SEO and overall performance. These SEO tools help you to tackle the SEO processes efficiently from a single and centralized location.
- Create a Responsive website: Responsive Website design is such a design that comes from the same URL in both desktop and mobile versions of the site. Only the relative displays are altered. If you don’t have a responsive website design then there will be different designs and two separate sites for desktop and mobile version. As a result, you have to run and manage two separate sets of SEO campaigns. Using a single site for different devices can save your SEO time.
- Create viral content pieces: Getting the back links is a continual challenge for the SEO world. It is important to get the back links from relevant and well regarded site, it is best to do so in a natural way. Even if you follow links as a part of your SEO campaign, you will find that back links are also hard to get.
All of these difficulties go away, if you redirect all your efforts towards producing a viral content instead of proactively seeking link sources. One well designed infographic will help you earn hundreds of back links from great sources. It is true that every content or infographic will not go viral but if you make just a few wins using this strategy, then it can do more for your site’s external SEO rather than spending weeks or months trolling for back links.
Outsource Repetitive SEO monitoring task: Finally, choose a SEO company from outsourcing your SEO monitoring tasks. The SEO monitoring tasks you may outsource are:
Checking SERP’s (Search Engine Result Page) rankings.
Making sure that all the website content is accessible to search engine spiders
Inserting new page links to the directory of your website
When outsourcing your SEO monitoring tasks, it is important to select the best Internet Marketing Company or services. Ensure that you do your research effectively and understand the pros and cons of each option before hiring a person or a team to assist your SEO.
Summary: all the above five strategies are simple and remains as it is even if the search engine algorithm changes. These strategies will make your SEO campaign or SEO process effective and easy to handle.[/vc_column_text][stm_post_bottom][stm_post_about_author][stm_post_comments][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][stm_sidebar sidebar=”527″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
Unlink Posts from Facebook to Twitter Feed
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Unlink a Facebook Page from a Twitter Account
UNLINK FACEBOOK POSTS TO TWITTER FEED:
I have been looking for an answer on how to remove automatic posting from Facebook to Twitter and finally found the solution online, after hours of searching. With Facebook’s new Insights dashboard it seems like everything has moved around again and a few people have asked me to find this, so here is the post…
Where Did They Move Add Posts to Twitter Feed?
It turns out that whenever I update my Facebook fan page, it updates Twitter, but if your using Hootsuite or onlywire to manage your social media you can be getting double and even triple posts like I was. This might fall into the duplicate content warnings and make the original links worthless. I decided to just unlink Facebook and Twitter, but for some reason, Facebook makes it hard to do that, so I’m spreading the love of my discovery.
To unlink your Facebook fan page from your Twitter feed:
1. When logged into Facebook, go to http://www.facebook.com/twitter/
2. Find the appropate page you manage or personal account you wish to unlink.
3. Click “Unlink from Twitter”
and now Celebrate! All daunting tasks for the day are done, more time for beer and laughter.[/vc_column_text][stm_post_bottom][stm_post_about_author][stm_post_comments][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][stm_sidebar sidebar=”527″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
5 Natural Link Anchor Text Techniques
[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1459404147420{margin-bottom: 40px !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_col-lg-9 vc_col-md-9″ css=”.vc_custom_1452702342137{padding-right: 45px !important;}”][stm_post_details][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1532784757172{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]Create a Natural Link ProfileOld SEO paradigms used to say if you linked to a page about hedge trimmers, then you should use a number of content-oriented sources that link back to the page via the anchor text “hedge trimmers.”
If only it were that easy! It’s never quite that simple – any “strategy” that places SEO before the user is bound to fail.
In fact, when search engines see dozens of links that derive from the same targeted anchor text (e.g., “hedge trimmers”), this may appear as though the links are paid for, spammy, and unnatural.
Thankfully, over-optimized anchor text is becoming a thing of the past, as search engines have been finding ways to reward natural webpages with organic link profiles that don’t appear overused or manipulated.
Certified Natural Anchor Text
SEO is not without its advantages, but there’s a wrong way to do it (forced) and a right way (natural). Here are five strategies you can incorporate into your efforts to give yourself a natural boost.
1. Conduct a Backlink Analysis – Compare your backlink analysis with a competitor’s. Not only will this give you a few insights into how you can adjust your efforts, it will keep you updated, help you improve your website, and motivate you to generate new ideas to meet your audience’s needs and interests.
2. Clean Up Your Website – Perform a quality investigation on your own website. Are there any pages that are lackluster? Do you repeat content on your website? Are you still utilizing pop ups or automatic audio? Double check each page on your website and eliminate any pages that are poor performers. Derivative content or pages with little content and tons of ads are toxic to your efforts.
3. Target the Middle – Recall the long-tail strategy? Aim for the middle of the long-tail by “sandwiching” your keywords in anchor text. Include the anchor text you want to use with an extension of relevant text to refine the topic. For example, if you’re writing an article discussing weight loss strategies for women over 40, then instead of using a generic anchor text link like “weight loss,” use “weight loss for women over 40.”
4. Use Your Brand/Company Name – Practice co-occurrence or brand association! In addition to your brand name, use keywords associated with your brand in your Resource Box to reinforce your transparency, relevance, rank, and click rate.
5. Focus on Your Message – Don’t forget your reader! Solidify your credibility by writing naturally and focusing on your reader’s benefit-oriented message. Build an original, quality article portfolio to cultivate interest and build exposure, but let your unique experience be all the natural SEO you need to succeed.[/vc_column_text][stm_post_bottom][stm_post_about_author][stm_post_comments][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][stm_sidebar sidebar=”527″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
Small Business Guide to Google Analytics
[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1459404147420{margin-bottom: 40px !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_col-lg-9 vc_col-md-9″ css=”.vc_custom_1452702342137{padding-right: 45px !important;}”][stm_post_details][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1471428375247{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]For many small businesses, Google Analytics can seem like a tricky tool to start with. It’s time to rejoice, small business owners, because this guide is your step-by-step manual to Google success!
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Submit Your Site to Google, Bing, Yahoo
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The first step to getting your site online and to get better rankings in Google is to submit your URL to search engines. An example of an URL is www.yoursite.com. Eventually the search engines will find your site but this will help expedite the process.
Once you submit your URL, it could take several days, weeks, or months for the search engines to index your page(s). Results may vary so don’t write this in stone. Factors such as other websites pointing to your site can affect this time as well.
Submit your URL to Google:
1. Go to the following link:http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
2. Type in your URL, example: http://www.yoursite.com
3. Enter comments about your site. This is optional. Usually I enter the genre of the site and a few keywords. Example: Website design in Hollister, CA.
4. Enter the captcha text shown in the box
5. Select “Add URL”
Submit your URL to Bing:
1. Go to the following link: http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx
2. Enter the captcha text shown in the box
3. Type in your URL, example: http://www.yoursite.com
4. Select “Submit URL”
Submit your URL to Yahoo:
**UPDATED NOVEMBER 2012**
1. Go to the following link: http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html
2. Click on “Submit Your Site for Free”
3. You will be redirected to Bing. Follow the on-screen instructions for submitting your URL.
Submit your Sitemap to Ask:
**UPDATED AUGUST 2012**
Ask does not have an URL submit feature. Until recently, you could submit your sitemap to them. But Ask.com has now retired this feature and says they will be crawling sites instead. So, the next best thing is to add a directive in your robots.txt file that specifies auto-discovery of the XML sitemap.
Like this:
SITEMAP: http://www.the URL of your sitemap here.xml
The sitemap location should be the full sitemap URL.
That’s it! Once you complete the above steps, just sit back and be patient. It takes time for the search engines to index your pages. If you submit more than once, some search engines may consider this spamming which could result in not indexing your site at all.
Do Not Use an Automated Submission Program
Using an automated submission program to submit to multiple search engines at once may be considered spam attempts and is frowned upon by search engines such as Google.
Also note that you do not have to add all of your URL addresses for your entire site. For example, you do not need to add http://www.yoursite.com/about.hml and http://www.yoursite.com/contact.hml. Simply enter the home page URL and let the engines do the rest.[/vc_column_text][stm_post_bottom][stm_post_about_author][stm_post_comments][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][stm_sidebar sidebar=”527″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
SBC Presents: Social Media Marketing
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10 Online Tools to Create Facebook Timeline Covers
[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1459404147420{margin-bottom: 40px !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_col-lg-9 vc_col-md-9″ css=”.vc_custom_1452702342137{padding-right: 45px !important;}”][stm_post_details][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1471354384117{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]Recently, Facebook introduced Timeline feature to all the Facebook users. Timeline feature replaces the profile page & wall and lets the users to turn their account into an online scrapbook of their life. Timeline design provides a big photo area at the top of your profile. This area works as a cover page for your life’s story so it is recognized as cover.
You can customize the timeline cover with the picture that reflects you or your hobby / interest. Many website are there which help you to create / design your own cover images by selecting premade awesome designs from different categories. These websites also let the users to create their cover images by selecting their own memorable images. Here is given a list of some great websites to create Facebook timeline background cover.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1471354315939{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]Websites for Creating a Facebook Timeline Cover:
1. Newfacebookbanners
Newfacebookbanners.com allows you to make new or customize premade Facebook Timeline Cover without charging you any amount. The site also lets you to use different types of tool and text options to insert text, draw and change the image’s hue & colors of the background. You can upload backgrounds, pictures and other graphics to create the dreamed Facebook Timeline Cover. You are able to add emoticons, profile picture banner frames and scrapebook art. Hit the “Done” button as you finish the banner, to save it in your pc in PNG image format.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1530884780358{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
2. FaceitPages
To make Facebook Timeline Cover you are required to create an account with this website. As you create an account “Create a New Timeline Cover” option will appear. No registration fees will be charged for you. The site allows you to select a premade layout or to upload your own background image. You can add your bio, personal/business information, upload a logo/small graphic as well as add other social network links such as Twitter, Google Plus, YouTube, etc. You are also able to see the preview of your Timeline cover. After creating the image, you can download it on your computer and then upload on Facebook.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1471354328786{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
3. Myfbcovers
It is another great website to create your own Facebook Timeline Cover. You can make 2 types of covers: Custom FB cover and Photo Collage cover at this site. To create normal cover, upload image of your choice and make changes like flip, rotate, color settings, resize as well as give effects such as emboss, sepia, panorama, black & white, etc. Your created image will be added to the existing library covers by a screening process. Photo Collage cover is made from 24 photos of your friends’ profile. Before creating Photo Collage cover you are asked to be logged-in in your FB and share some FB information. You can also share the created cover with others and win $50 per week and $100 per month if your cover is the most downloaded image of the week.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1471354335114{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
4. Thesitecanvas
You are required to log into your Facebook account with CoverCanvas to make unique and stylish Facebook Timeline cover. The site provides more than 20 templates for you to select from. As you choose a template it will select the pictures automatically that are included. You are able to get a new set of images if you don’t like automatically selected pictures. After creating the desired cover, click “Make My Cover” button to upload it to your Facebook profile.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1471354341290{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
5. Facebookprofilecovers
It is another excellent website to get Facebook Timeline cover. Facebookprofilecovers provides cool and interesting covers for you to choose from the desired categories such as Animals, Celebs, Religion, Funny, Food, Cars, Flowers, Love, Geeks, Nature, etc. New designs of covers are added every day. Just click on the word “Make My Facebook Cover” pick a design you like and login to your Facebook account with FBProfileCovers.com. The site does not allow users to create their own covers but users can recommend or submit a cover on FacebookProfileCovers.com.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1471354347578{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
6. Fbcoverpix
Just log into your Facebook account and make/share your own created Facebook Timeline Cover or select any cover from premade collection. You can also download the cover to your pc without logging in to your FB account by visiting large gallery of the site. After downloading, upload the covers to Facebook yourself and add them as your cover pages. Fbcoverpix .com provides perfect appropriate cover for your profile.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1471354353745{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
7. Coverize.me
This site allows you to create or select a cover image from already made images. There are A-Z categories of premade cover images. These pre-made cover images may be just recycled banners, screensavers or Twitter backgrounds. Coverize.me provides 2 ways to download the images: automatically and manually. If you like to download the image automatically then you have to log in with Facebook. There is also “suggest a cover” page where you can leave a suggestion about which cover you want.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1471354359363{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
8. Myprofilecover
Myprofilecover provides a variety of categories such as animal, artist, car, nature, people, cartoon, etc. for you to choose from. You will also get Facebook Timeline Cover Images with motivational slogans as well as images of your favorite sports heroes or teams. Just, download your favorite cover image in your pc and then upload it, and add it as your new Timeline Cover.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1471354365251{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
9. Facebooktimelinebanner
It provides a huge collection of high-quality and awesome cover images for your Facebook Profile. Facebooktimelinebanners contains A-Z pre-made cover images categories ranging from games to illusions, abstract to funny, etc. and each category has lots of images under it. The site lets you to search particular type of cover image. Simply, right click at the image to save it to your computer and upload it to your Facebook profile.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1471354148197{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
10. 99Covers
There are 1000s of designs and collections of Facebook Timeline Cover images at 99covers.com. You will get many categories like actors, male & female models, actresses, music, creative, mood, sports, entertainment, nature, etc. to choose your favorite cover image. Click on the word “Add as My Facebook Cover” and then login in your FB account with 99Covers.com to upload and set the selected image as timeline cover.
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How to Use Twitter’s New Discover Tab & Twitter Card Features
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Advanced Twitter Marketing for the Code Lover in You!
Twitter.com introduced the new Discover and Connect tabs back in May, it essentially “socialized” the platform more efficiently by advanced options. The Discover tab allows users to view tweets and stories from their connections in one centralized area while the connect tab shows interactions and mentions of your twitter user name.
Then, in an official blog post published on September 28, Twitter announced it had reworked the Discover tab yet again. According to the post, “When you visit the Discover tab on Twitter.com, you’ll see a continuous stream of tweets, which automatically expand to show you the most relevant stories and most engaging photos.” This gets into the second part of today’s post which deals with Twitter Cards and how to get rich media content into your tweets using HTML code on your website.
The Discover tab is essentially “What’s happening now, tailored for you.” and if you get a handle on Twitter Cards you could be serving up photos, videos and relevant tweets to followers who are generally interested in your posts. This is a major leap forward in Advanced Twitter Marketing so lets dive right in to Twitter Cards:
TWITTER CARDS
How to Post Twitter Cards From Your Website:
If you create a little extra HTML code on your website, Twitter can post your tweets with a media rich content including Titles, Description, Pictures and yes even Video. Even if you are viewing them with a Tablet or a Mobile device the Twitter developers have given us the code to Tweet out amazing content full of pics and vids!
To display Twitter Cards with Media Rich Content in your Tweets add this HTML code to the webpage your tweeting about…
Specify the type of card for your content by adding the following HTML to the HEAD section of your page:
Example
meta name="twitter:card" content="summary"[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1471351926607{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]These are the different Card Properties you can use in your HTML code, utilizing the Meta name Tag:
Card Property Description
twitter:card The card type, which will be one of “summary”, “photo”, or “player”.
twitter:url Canonical URL of the card content.
twitter:title The title of your content as it should appear in the card.
twitter:description A description of the content in a maximum of 200 characters.
twitter:image A URL to the image representing the content.
Card and Content Attribution (Not Required-Additional)
twitter:site @username for the website used in the card footer.
twitter:site:id Same as twitter:site, but the website’s Twitter user ID instead. Note that user ids never change, while @usernames can be changed by the user
twitter:creator @username for the content creator / author.
twitter:creator:id Same as twitter:creator, but the Twitter user’s ID
Values Accepted for meta name “twitter:card”
summary: The default card, which includes a title, description, thumbnail image, and Twitter account attribution.
photo: A Tweet sized photo card.
player: A Tweet sized video/audio/media player card.
Example of Twitter Card “Summary” Code on Website:
meta name="twitter:card" content="summary" meta name="twitter:site" content="@nytimes" meta name="twitter:creator" content="@SarahMaslinNir" meta name="twitter:url" content="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/arts/music/amid-police-presence-fans-congregate-for-whitney-houstons-funeral-in-newark.html" meta name="twitter:title" content="Parade of Fans for Houston’s Funeral" meta name="twitter:description" content="NEWARK - The guest list and parade of limousines with celebrities emerging from them seemed more suited to a red carpet event in Hollywood or New York than than a gritty stretch of Sussex Avenue near the former site of the James M. Baxter Terrace public housing project here." meta name="twitter:image" content="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/02/19/us/19whitney-span/19whitney-span-articleLarge.jpg"[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1471352339200{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]If you are using the Twitter Card “Photo” attribute you can have your Photo centered in the middle of the tweet as the focus.
This is the Resulting Twitter Card:
Example of the Twitter Card “Photo” Code on Webstie:
meta name="twitter:card" content="photo" meta name="twitter:site" content="@examplephotosite" meta name="twitter:creator" content="@sippey" meta name="twitter:url" content="http://example.com/photo/a/" meta name="twitter:title" content="Good Morning, San Francisco" meta name="twitter:description" content="Great view this morning" meta name="twitter:image" content="http://example.com/photo/a/image.jpg" meta name="twitter:image:width" content="610" meta name="twitter:image:height" content="610"
This is the Resulting Twitter Card:
Twitter Card (Type:Photo)[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1530883672813{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]If you are using the Twitter Card “Video” attribute you can have Video embedded right into your tweets…
There are a few more tags that utilized using this Twitter Card option and they are as follows…
twitter:player HTTPS URL to iframe player. This must be a HTTPS URL which does not generate mixed content warnings in a web browser.
twitter:player:width Width of IFRAME specified in twitter:player in pixels
twitter:player:height Height of IFRAME specified in twitter:player in pixels
twitter:image Image to be displayed in place of the player on platforms that don’t support iframes or inline players. You should make this image the same dimensions as your player
(For Mobile & Tablets)
twitter:player:stream URL to raw stream that will be rendered in Twitter’s mobile applications directly. If provided, the stream must be delivered in the MPEG-4 container format (the .mp4 extension). The container can store a mix of audio and video with the following codecs:
Video: H.264, Baseline Profile (BP), Level 3.0, up to 640 x 480 at 30 fps.
Audio: AAC, Low Complexity Profile (LC)
twitter:player:stream:content_type The MIME type/subtype combination that describes the content contained in twitter:player:stream. Takes the form specified in RFC 6381. Currently supported content_type values are those defined in RFC 4337 (MIME Type Registration for MP4).
Example of a simple “Video” Twitter Card, here is the Code for Website:
meta name="twitter:card" content="player" meta name="twitter:site" content="@examplevideosite" meta name="twitter:url" content="http://example.com/watch/a" meta name="twitter:title" content="Example Video" meta name="twitter:description" content="This is a sample video from example.com" meta name="twitter:image" content="http://example.com/keyframe/a.jpg" meta name="twitter:player" content="https://example.com/embed/a" meta name="twitter:player:width" content="435" meta name="twitter:player:height" content="251"
This is the Resulting Twitter Card:
Twitter Card (Type:Video)
Example of a “Video” Twitter Card also providing a URL to a raw stream to be rendered in Twitter’s mobile and tablet applications
meta name="twitter:card" content="player" meta name="twitter:site" content="@foobar" meta name="twitter:url" content="http://example.com/watch/a" meta name="twitter:title" content="Example Video" meta name="twitter:description" content="This is a sample video from example.com" meta name="twitter:image" content="http://example.com/keyframe/a.jpg" meta name="twitter:player" content="https://example.com/embed/a" meta name="twitter:player:width" content="435" meta name="twitter:player:height" content="251" meta name="twitter:player:stream" content="https://example.com/raw-stream/a.mp4" meta name="twitter:player:stream:content_type" content="video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E1, mpa.40.2""
This is the Resulting Twitter Card:
Final Notes & Further Reading:
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Twitter Card (Type: Video Viewed on Tablet or Mobile)
Remember Twitter bot needs to access these files so you would have to configure your robots.txt file to allow for twitterbot to check your code:
Example of Robots.txt
User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: *
If you want to restrict certian areas you can use this code (this will only allow twitterbot to crawl the images and archives folder)
User-agent: Twitterbot
Disallow: *
Allow: /images
Allow: /archives
Further Reading:
Twitter Cards Development for Web
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Top 5 Free Keyword Research Tools
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1. Google Adwords Keyword Tool:
The most popular free keyword research tool from Google, which is constantly upgraded and is a good competitor for paid keyword research tools like WorkTracker.
Google Keyword Tool
https://adwords.google.com/o/Targeting/Explorer?__c=1000000000&__u=1000000000&ideaRequestType=KEYWORD_IDEAS
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2. Seogadget Excel plugin and AdWords API tool:
SEOgadget has a great tool for keyword research and which works with MS Excel making your life easier and organized.
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3. Google Suggest Keyword Scraper:
Ubersuggest is a keyword suggest or scraper tool. Just give the root keyword, example “best shoes” and select the country to target and it lists out all the keyword suggest ideas for the root keyword, it is like automating your manual keyword collection using Google.
Uber Suggest Keyword Research
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4. Google Trends- Trending keywords from Google:
Very popular trending keyword tool from Google. You will know the latest trending keywords and if you are a trend blogger, it will help your drive search engine traffic back to your posts.
Google Trends SEO Research
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5. Touchgraph SEO Maping for keywords:
This not so popular keyword tool that I use which acts very much like the now removed, Google Wonderwheel. It serves as a great replacement and maps out both keywords and companies and can show you how they are visually related. I usual use this tool as a good measure of a companies digital footprint as well as keyword research.
SEO Digital Footprint
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