Anyway, we all know who Brilliant Jeni is and as we all know, she is very active on Twitter. In fact, it comes to no surprise that she hasn’t updated her blog since the middle of last month. With that said, I joined Twitter about six months ago. I thought it was pretty cool, and I made a few friends. I’ll admit, it really wasn’t all that much fun until I hooked up with Jeni and met a few of her friends.

I know that many of you guys and gals reading Jeni’s blog are twitter users so I figured that you’d probably enjoy reading this little tip on scoring traffic from Twitter. Again, Twitter has an array of purposes. Jeni has shown me that Twitter is quite useful for meeting really cool friends. With me on the other hand, it is also a place for recruiting new readers to your blog. Here is how I do it.

If you scroll to the bottom of the page on Twitter, you will see a navigation bar that looks like this:

One of the links in the navigation bar is called Search.

If you click that link, you’ll be taken to a new site that looks very much like the old Google home page:

What you might not know is that Twitter Search is just about as powerful as Google with finding things on Twitter. With that said, Twitter Search is an amazing way to find people that you KNOW will be interested in reading your blog.

The reason is simple. You know exactly what your blog is about. If your blog is about Nascar, you know that people who like Nascar will enjoy reading your blog. If your blog is about making money online with programs such as Google AdSense, then you know that people who like Google AdSense will enjoy reading my blog. Etc…

With Twitter Search, you have the power to find people based off the things that interest them. When people update and send tweets, Twitter keeps a record of everything you say and makes it completely 100% searchable. So, if you write a tweet about AdSense, it will show up on the Twitter AdSense SERP.

Because Twitter keeps a record of what everyone tweets and makes it searchable on their search engine, you can easily use their search engine to find people who have tweeted about things that you commonly write about on your blog.

In the above screen shot, you will see that Shelly213 wrote a tweet that provides a link to her blog where she talks about how to NOT get your AdSense account terminated. She sent this tweet only 17 minutes ago. I can easily reply to her Tweet and strike up a conversation with her. I can easily read her blog post, leave her a comment and then reply to her tweet and tell her “awesome job!” From there, I can almost guarantee you that Shelly213 will investigate me, and find my blog. From there, I will have a new blog reader.

So the long story short is this: While it may be difficult for you to score traffic right away from Google and other search engines, there are MANY ways you can totally FLOOD your blog with traffic. Such as the case with doing a simple search using Twitter.

I want to thank Jeni for giving me the opportunity to write this article for you. If you enjoyed reading my article, I invite you to visit my blog and subscribe to my mailing list.

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What a BRILLIANT idea! In the midst of the “fianancial crisis” what a great message to send- it is never a bad time to give and recognize how fortunate we truly are. I believe this, and as you know from my previous post, I recently felt a “bank spanking” (as NormalJoe called it) from the FC and am at a high risk to feel it again. That however, will not stop me from joining Underdogblogger’s challenge. In fact, I have pledged double what he is asking, plus $37 dollars (because that’s SuiteJ’s favorite number- isn’t he special?)

I am encouraging my fellow bloggers and web publishers to pledge also- even if it’s only a few dollars. Take a moment and check out UnderDog’s charity challenge and drop him a line letting him know he has your support.

Fellow bloggers who have signed up so far…
Kouji Haiku haiku-poems-blog.blogspot.com
WordVixen thenicher.com
Adam creadiv.com
ClogMoney clogmoney.com
and SuiteJ by $37 default SuiteJ.com

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So, after twittering the fate of my beloved passive income earnings, practicing my Spanish swear words with a very unconcerned banker, and indecisively swaying from nausea to hyperventilation… I remembered something: I can make more. That’s right, one of the benefits of being a web publisher is that you can make as much freaking money as you want.

I have decided I will earn double the money that I have lost, by February 2009.

My first plan of attack is to answer my emails, complete my daily blog rounds, and then go out and drink as many white russians as I can possibly get my hands on- not to grieve for my loss. Oh no. TO CELEBRATE. I am going to celebrate the fact that this new inspiration has simply fallen into my lap and given me a new challenge and finally… a reason, to get back to work.

Special thanks to Freddie, the motivational blog wonder and NormalJoe for this morning’s post on how thoughts effect your success. Great timing!

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Official today, Joel Comm has released his AdSense Secrets 4 FREE to the public.  He’s also including a freebie bundle including 7 free audios, and Top One Network trials.  As a side note- Joel, being the cool man that he is, hooked me up with a Top One Network account- GREAT RESOURCES that I can confidently recommend to anyone.

I bought AdSense Secrets 4 for a whole $9.95 or whatever it was when it first came out.  Since the majority of my sites are AdSense earners, I was thankful many of the tactics described were more advanced than in Joel’s previous book, The AdSense Code. I was able to implement just a few simple changes and bump up my earnings.

If I actually stopped traveling for a few months, there are plenty of additional AdSense 4 suggestions that I’m certain would increase my earnings even further. However, since NormalJoe’s following has BrilliantJENI poll’d that I need to remain on vacation….  I am under blogger peer pressure to wait juuuuust a little longer.  At least until after I return from Joel Comm’s Elevate Seminar in a few weeks.

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Friday, I caught a flight to Blog Orlando- barely unpacked from the previous weekend at Blog World in Las Vegas. Blog Orlando was fantastic. Met great people, took in a lot of information, and laughed harder than I have in ages… alas, that is another post that will be coming soon.

I arrived in San Diego Monday night. Caught a flight to San Francisco from Long Beach, Tuesday morning (almost Tuesday afternoon as I missed my flight- love LA traffic! Keeps you on your toes!) So today is… um… Wednesday (yes, I had to actually check) and I am in San Francisco to meet with Luca Filigheddu, CEO of Abbeynet in Italy. Abbeynet is a leader of Italian VOIP services, including Sitòfono and the newly released beta, Hictu. If you haven’t checked out Hictu yet, I recommend you do. Think Twitter with video, audio, and image in addition to text plus the option for direct mobile messages. Hictu is still in the early stages of beta but after speaking with Luca (twitter.com/filos - tell him Jeni sent you ) I’m interested in seeing where this goes. Particularly since there is talk of revenue-sharing in the works and unique options for aspiring video bloggers. In fact, if you’re a bit of a card and not camera shy, I would recommend giving Luca a shout. Never know where that might lead.

Catching my next flight to Long Beach in… 6 hours. Outtie!

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So one of my questions was about how to identify trends for niche website opportunities. I was a bit surprised when Joel said he used nothing fancy- good old Google Trends, Google Zeitgeist, and “going into stores and asking staff about trends in whatever topic.” That last one might just be a brilliant idea.

Other tips from Joel- get off Blogger.com. Suggested WordPress.
Captain Pajamas, Get free copy of “Top 1%” report from Joel on his site.
And of course, order Joe Comm’s new book “Click Here to Order” which you can read about on imwithjoe.com (best review I could find so I’m sharing!)

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In the interview, I call in following Blog World 2008 in Las Vegas. Not too much detail, but a few props to keynote speakers Timothy Ferriss, author of “4 Hour Work Week,” and Mike Shinoda, awesome blogger from Linkin Park, and Rahit Bhargava who did a fantastic and entertaining job discussing Branding for bloggers amongst other, interesting things; Did you know Ferriss originally titled his book, “Drug Dealing for Fun and Profit” and Linkin Park actually changed the spelling of their band just to get the .com? Gotta love stories like that!

I also talk about a few of the exhibitors I met, a few companies coming out of beta (finally! Come on BuzzLogic- 4 years, you keep us waiting!) and my brief, but interesting meetings with Darren Rowse and John Chow.

So, there you have it- me talking about Blog World, the back of Darren Rowse’s head, and a little about myself; yes, I love a good plurk-bacon joke. Yes, I twitter incessantly, and yes, I take embarrassingly long vacations! Enjoy the interview!

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