Scoring Legit Twitter Followers – Really!

This newsletter is sponsored by Quiet Light Brokerage How much is your web business worth? Find Out Today! Understanding Google and What Really Matters this Season As you know, in keeping with the rash of recent Google changes, our Site-Reference motto has been "community-building – not just linkbuilding" for quite some time now. Today, it's all about creating a brand for yourself, networking with peers in your niche, and building your brand into true authority status over time for maximum exposure and ranking power in the SERPs. You're likely aware that social networking plays a vital role in building your brand, and rightfully so. Users of social media have exploded in recent years, and Twitter is one of the primary platforms of choice for webmasters to be seen. Nowhere else can you communicate with your followers in real-time and keep your peers up-to-date with all the latest happenings in your site's neck of the woods. Unfortunately, Twitter's been abused quite a bit over the last few years. Fake followers are big business, and even the most well-respected public figures have been found guilty of purchasing fake followers for the sake of appearances. Twitter's even filed lawsuits against auto-tweeting and automatic following software in an attempt to wipe spam from the platform. Gaining legitimate followers for your brand's Twitter account is important because you don't want your reputation tarnished by accusations of playing dirty to get a higher follower count. It's much more than that, however – every real follower you gain is a person willing to listen to what you have to say and potentially share it with their followers as well. That said, why in the world would you want to attract anything other than the real thing? Let's look at some great ways to beef up your follower count – and keep your efforts aboveboard in the process. Learn how to get legit followers... Advertisement What's The Best Way to Grow Your List? Give your visitors multiple places to subscribe! This plugin shows you the incredible results of 10,000 subscribers and how you can mimic these results on your site easily! Read More... More Articles Basing Your Business on Google: A Cautionary Tale Regular Site-Reference readers know that we've been warning against basing your business model on ranking in Google's SERPs for quite some time now. For those of you who've kept doing what works instead of heeding our advice, let this post serve as more food for thought. Tim Carter of AsktheBuilder.com has made a killing with Google AdSense. As he should – he runs a website that's been around since 1998 and he's a real authority in his niche. His site boasts a PR of 5, he's got loads of killer mixed-media content, and it's even been plugged by well-known media outlets such as Fox, ABC, and the Chicago Tribune. Then, just shy of two years ago, all that changed. Google's now-infamous Panda algo hit his site with a vengeance, and it unexpectedly tumbled from the search results for keyword terms across the board. Carter was stunned. He'd been raking in close to $1,400 a day through AdSense, and he saw that amount tumble to $70... seemingly overnight. What did he do wrong? Read what he did wrong... Marketplace How to Increase Email Subscribers 30% - With Facebook! Make subscribing to your newsletter as easy as pushing a single button!  This is what this Wordpress plugin does - by intergrating with Facebook, your visitors can opt-in to your email list through simply clicking a button!  Results from our tests show an increase of 30% in subscription rates.  Check this out today! Learn More Coffee Shop Millionaire Have you ever seen those people at the coffee shop with their laptops who seem to spend all day there in their t-shirts and flip flops? What do they do? Don't they have a job? Learn the secret of these people... View the video