Welcome to our discussions.

You bring up a good point. While I don’t really submit articles, I do use Squidoo lenses for many things for the reasons you suggest: search engine benefits and rankings.

In fact, right now I’m working hard to promote local brick and mortar business online and a Squidoo lens will be built for each of them that syndicates their blog (if they have one), their Twitter feed (if they use it), etc.

It will also point to their profile page on the new site I’m building and I’m sure it will help put the site in the top results in a few weeks.

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JD

Thanks for the comment.

Do you use Twitter in marketing your real estate business? Is it helpful for you?

I wrote this original message almost six months ago and I’m still working on plans for educating people in my area for getting more out of the online tools that are now available.

I’m always open to ideas and feedback about these topics.

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JD

“This is good thinking”

I think it’s time I start deleting some twirps.

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I agree. Some of the top names are some of the worst when it comes to tweeting drivel. Not all, but some. When I get tired of what they’re saying, I stop following them. No muss, no fuss.

When it comes to Twitter, I’m definitely not about the numbers. I don’t care how many I’m following or how many follow me. I just want it to be a convenient and worthwhile way to contact friends and get to know them better.

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JD

I think I may have to follow your advice and start removing them, just so I can get some peace and quiet.

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Welcome to our discussion about Twitter and promoting our local communities.

I was just on your Sevier County Blog and it looks like you’re off to a good start this year. I hope you have great success with your blog and real estate business.

At first, I didn’t understand the lure of Twitter nor its usefulness. As I tweaked my goals for using Twitter and started following people who were interested in the same things I am, it became much more useful to me.

When I start following someone who tweets about everything they do, it won’t be long before I stop following them.

I enjoy following someone with a nice mix of personal information and tweets about their business and career activities.

I’ve met some very nice people on Twitter and enjoy when one of my friends shows up in the latest tweets. Frequently, I follow the link to their latest blog post, Squidoo lens, or an addition to their website. In some cases I can get there within seconds of their posting the new item.

I’m going to tweak my Murphy, NC blog so that it will announce new posts using the #MurphyNC hashtag. I have lots of plans for promoting Murphy this year.

So, do you use Twitter?

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JD

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You’ve given me the biggest laugh I’ve had in a long, long time.

I try to be organized on the computer and more-or-less with my business, but you have entirely the wrong idea about my office.

I’ve never had a clean desk in my life. Every horizontal surface is covered in books, printouts, scribbled notes, and notebooks. Some almost-horizontal surfaces have precariously stacked piles that may not be there the next time I look.

My main personal goal for this year is to declutter my life and be better at cleaning. It’s something I’ve never been good at, so I’m going to pretend that I’m a grown-up and take some responsibility for this mess.

While I’m mostly an open book on the Web, I am NOT going to post any photos of my office.

So, you have lived through the Information Superhighway Roadkill phase, too!

I know how you feel. There are a few things on some old private BBS sites that I’m happy never made it onto the Web.

Thanks for the laugh, Sire, it felt good.

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JD

I once did a search on my name and was surprised on the results. It even came up with my old BBS and a add-on I once designed for Lord Of The Red Dragon, an online game. Yep, they were the days, and then the Internet killed it. lol

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You bring up an excellent point, and it’s one that I should have been thinking about when I wrote the original post.

You’re right. Some of those results when searching for “John Dilbeck” are not about me. Some are one of my ancestors, and some may be distant cousins. A few were about people I didn’t recognize instantly.

I looked through the first 10 pages of results, and over 90% of the results were about me, my sites, or things I’ve said somewhere.

When I started, a few years ago, when I searched for “John Dilbeck” the results were almost all about me. Now, that’s changing, as more sites come online and more people with my (relatively rare) name are joining in the conversations.

So, maybe there aren’t over 8,000 references to me, but there are still thousands of links to things I’ve been doing or what others have said about me.

I’ll have to keep this in mind in the future as I write.

When I looked at the first 10 pages of search results for “johndilbeck” all of them were related to me except for two which appear to be irrelevant results since the term wasn’t found when I looked at the source code for the page.

I made a conscious choice to use one email to send from and receive all my business-related email. Like you, I have multiple email addresses, but I think it’s made it a bit easier for me to deal with the hundreds of emails I get every day by using one main account and filtering the messages into about 100 inboxes based on criteria I use, and which changes over time as my priorities change.

I can understand that it can be difficult to remember an email address when you use several of them regularly, but I think my original point remains valid. There are lots more people who barely use their email, or don’t use it at all, than there are people like us who use email all the time.

Don’t you think?

Thanks for keeping me in line, Sire.

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JD

I didn’t realize that those old tweets still existed, so thanks for that bit of info. In regards to the email address, when someone aslo me for mine I have to stop and think about which one to give them.

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As long as you’re adding social value to the work others are doing, you deserve some income for it.

Have you considered Google Adsense ads? You won’t get rich, but it could be some extra income without being too distracting.

Best of luck with your blog and helping the nonprofits in your area.

Act on your dream!

JD