The Top 10 Twitter SEO Tips

1. Choose a good handle

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Be sure to pick an optimal handle that’s relevant to your brand or campaign and easy to remember. Your handle (also known as your Username) then becomes part of your customized Twitter URL such as twitter.com/yoursite or twitter.com/yourtopic. Doing this creates a static address for future search indexing, which also helps usability for other cross-channel promotions. So choose wisely! The fun challenge: doing all this while keeping your name short and succinct so it’s easily tweetable.

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2. Select an account name wisely

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Optimize the Twitter account name to best reflect your brand. Your name is what appears next to your profile, which can be different than your handle/URL. You obviously want an account name that promotes yourself, your company or your brand. You should also consider which variation of you brand name has the most search frequency every month.

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3. Make your bio count

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Optimize your Twitter page’s “Bio” line so it includes the most important, mission-critical phrases for your brand. Take advantage of all 160 characters! (Yep, that’s right: They give you 20 more characters than a normal tweet.) Your bio is consistently indexed so its contents are what provide your Twitter page with its core relevance.

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4. Spread the word

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Now think about ways to build the link reputation of this newfound social web address. For example, you can integrate your Twitter URL into your website by placing a call to action on the site for your customers to follow you on Twitter. You could also integrate your Twitter URL within your site’s Global Footer, which appears at the bottom of every page of your site. Both of these options offer usability to your site visitors and help drive your Twitter URL up in the search engines.

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5. Remember your URL

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In the account settings, be sure to add your website’s URL or perhaps use it to promote your presence on another social platform, for example, yoursite.com. This is a great way to drive traffic back to your destination of choice; although, truth be told, the link does not provide any offsite reputation – a.k.a. SEO link juice – due to a “Nofollow” attribute that Twitter has in place. (Sorry Twitter spammers!)

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6. Select the initial characters of each tweet carefully

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The “lead-in” of each tweet appears to be important for SEO as it will determine what appears in the tweet’s title tag when it shows up as a search result on Google. Approximately 42 characters are factored into each tweet’s title tag, including the account name, as well as the initial characters of each tweet. Keep in mind that your full tweet and all its characters are still being indexed by major engines, though.
[The first characters of your tweet may have the most impact on its future SEO value.]

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7. Write keyword-rich tweets if possible

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Wherever possible, start your tweet with a primary keyword phrase to theme each message. Take advantage of any “active lingo” or buzz words as this will enable you to capitalize on timely searches on those terms. Of course, this doesn’t mean you should fill your tweets with buzz words at the expense of providing value to your followers! Rather, think carefully about which word choices will best convey your message and also allow you to leverage the real-time and long-term index relevance across the engines that continuously spider and index tweets.

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8. Mind your retweetability

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Make sure your tweet’s character limits allow for optimal “retweetability.” If you want a message to proliferate on Twitter, it’s ideal to keep it under 120 characters so your followers can easily add RT @YourHandle in front of the tweet. However, the exact number is different from everyone as it depends on the number of characters needed for someone to include the phrase “RT @yourname” in their re-tweet.

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9. Provide some link love

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Insert back links to redirect users back to your content. Twitter has proven to be a significant traffic driver for bloggers and others using the space to share links. If you do share links, use one of the many URL shorteners available (TinyURL and Bit.ly are two common shorteners). We recommend using the URL shortener Bit.ly, as it tracks click-throughs for the specific links you share on the platform. Bit.ly even has the power to track links in aggregate. For example, if multiple Bit.ly URLs were created and shared by separate users, all leading back to the same URL, the service can track and report click-throughs for all of them in aggregate. Bit.ly also tracks clicks over time, so you can see when people are clicking your links most.

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10. As always, give ‘em what they want

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When providing Bit.ly links or any other URLs, make sure the redirection leads to pages which provide a richer content experience. Twitter users are hungry for information and accustomed to getting it “right now.” Send users directly to the details instead of having them fish around for it.

Top 10 Twitter Tips for Beginners

Is it finally time to take the Twitter plunge? The free service that lets users micro-blog 140 characters at a time had accumulated around 1.9 million users as of December 2008, according to comScore. If you are just now jumping on the Twitter bandwagon, or are intimidated by your inexperience with Twitter etiquette and acronyms, allow us to share some Twittery tips that will make your experience easier and more enjoyable.
1. Shrink Your URLs

One of the most common uses of Twitter is sharing links. But you only have 140 characters to work with, so instead of sharing a long URL, use one of several URL-shortening services to shrink that link. Some of our favorites include tinyurl.com, is.gd, ow.ly, and bit.ly.

2. RT = Retweet

If you want to copy and paste someone else's tweet, that's totally accepted and appreciated, as long as you give the original tweeter credit for it. Just put "RT @name" in front of their tweet and post it yourself.


3. Direct Messaging

With Twitter's direct-messaging (DM) function, you can send a private 140-character message to another user, kind of like abbreviated e-mail. However, you can only direct message Twitter users that are following you.


4. Use the @ Sign

To create a reply or to give someone props on Twitter, simply place an @ sign in front of their Twitter name. If it is a reply, the @ sign must be the first character of the tweet. To see replies to your own tweets, click on @Replies from your profile page.


5. Search For Your Friends

Search.twitter.com works well for finding your friends, celebrities, or organizations, or for searching for specific topics you're interested in.
6. Categorize Your Tweets for Added Visibility

If you're tweeting about a popular subject (Obama, Lost, etc) putting a # in front of the subject makes it easy for others to find your tweet, and perhaps they will want to follow you. For example, when the plane crashed into the Hudson River in January, #flight1549 became a popular tag and search term.


7. Share Pictures

People love sharing their photos with the world, and some even break news with them, like Janis Krums, who used TwitPic to post one of the first up-close photos of Flight 1549 on his Twitter feed. Services like TwitPic let users easily upload their photos and post them directly to Twitter.


8. Tweet from Your Phone

Twitter allows you to update your status and receive updates via text message. Under Settings, go to the Devices tab and enter your phone number to start sending and receiving mobile tweets. If your incoming tweets/texts are overwhelming you, disable this option by going back to the same panel and following the instructions.


9. Pick a Good Desktop Client

With desktop clients such as TweetDeck, Twhirl, and TwitterFox, you can receive tweets in a much more manageable fashion, especially if you follow a lot of people, respond often, and use direct messages a lot. TweetDeck, for example, allows you to create specific groups, if you want to split your feed into individual columns.


10. Download a Mobile Client

If you have a BlackBerry, an iPhone, or another smartphone with Wi-Fi or 3G access, a mobile client might be a better option than using text messages. Mobile Twitter clients worth checking out include Twitterific, TwitterBerry, PocketTweets, and Twidroid. 

10 Easy Tips and Tricks to Successful Twitter Microblogging

People have been searching for the formula to finding value out of twitter.  My previous post on 10 steps to finding business value in twitter.  Now that you're using twitter, you'll find these will launch your experience and value into hyperspeed.
I use SharePoint as my community example throughout, if you're not a SharePoint person you can easily replace with .NET or whatever.
1. Twitter to Facebook - Add the facebook twitter app at http://apps.facebook.com/twitter then put in your twitter account.  One draw back... if you tweet a lot you get a lot of wall posts, including replies.  It does say it comes from twitter so the techy people should understand, but your family may be confused.  It does allow for a nice interesting threaded discussion on your wall.
2. Blog to Twitter (to Facebook) -  Twitterfeed.com as simple as logging in and putting in your RSS.  I suggest putting "Blog:" so we can tell immediately what this is.  Cool thing it can automatically be shortened even.
3. Twitter & Blog to FriendFeed - Yet another aggregation service, but I like this one better than legit.  FriendFeed.com consolidates all your twittering and blogging and flickr and about 50+ other services.  Scoble is recommending it based on the ability to see what you're doing across the web.  My initial feedback is, yes it's worth it.  You don't have to spend any time there, but it is a decent way to provide web consolidation of your various feeds.  This will make your twitters and all the rest available via RSS via a "Home Feed."  (You can view and subscribe to my friend feed at http://friendfeed.com/joeloleson)
4. Twitter to blog with Twitter Widgets - You may or may not have seen my recent post on SharePoint Widgets and Webparts.  The Twitter widget that you see on my blog is from widgetbox.com.
5. Use Global Search - On twitter.com in "Find People" you can search.  http://twittersearch.com/statuses?searchstring=sharepoint or http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23sharepoint If you search for SharePoint, you can see recent tweets where people use the term "SharePoint."  The real value I've found in tweetdeck the ability to add a search for "SharePoint." There are always some interesting tweets from people who are having conversations, people needing help, or people beyond help.  Tweet deck adds a pane so you can watch your normal following, plus this pane.  I'm also a fan of the twitscoop pane.  If you follow twitscoop you can add this pane.  This will show you current trends, from Windows7 to DOW to Palin.  The latest SNL Palin with Tina Fey... if it's any good :).  You'll stay ahead of the days trends and news minus the commercials and repetition.  Without doing much I can simply do a quick scan and see how I can help people in the SharePoint community.  Obviously it's much easier to do when they follow me or @ contact me.
Using search.twitter.com you can actually subscribe to the RSS feed of query.  http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?lang=en&q=sharepoint
6. Use Hashtags - hashtags.org has setup indexing if you follow @hashtags and use one.  Check out their site hashtags.org for more information #SharePoint, whether you follow hastags or not, it will be much easier for all of us to see your posts if you include #SharePoint or SharePoint in your interesting SharePoint posts.  Many events will have special tags like #TEUS08 (Teched US 2008) or #Gartner (Gartner Symposium).  Hashtags will give you visibility outside your followers as people search or even retweet these tags.

olivermarks #cse I'm at Cloud Summit Executive conf at Computer museum mountain view ca, high end saas business discussion
#Gartner new analyst video now available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/gartnervideo

More on hashtags on the twitter wiki.  That's another place to learn and get better.  There are some people that are annoyed by hashtags and would prefer you use the new Track options.  I don't want IM notifications, I simply want to be able to filter the relevant community related content.
7. Follow to be followed - Enter your real name in your profile.  If you search for your full name and can't find yourself, how can anyone else?  Those who understand the value of twitter, understand that those you follow dictate the level of interesting conversation.
Secret: I follow people who follow SharePoint.  This means I look at the followers of SharePoint, SharePoint MVPs, and MS SharePoint people.  I now follow over 1000 people and see 10 tweets every 5 minutes.  I went from having a tight following of just SharePoint folks to a much broader base of SharePoint Users, Admins, Developers, and people who occasionally complain about SharePoint amongst other social networking and news contacts.
8. There's MORE! It's not just marketing or lame status updates - I actually find a lot of conversations revolve around development, support, even venting can be therapeutic. :) Let me give you a glance into the future.  Today there's a lot of people who don't get microblogging.  They wouldn't see twitter as a place to go for answers... cause what can you really get in 140 characters?  In the future people will say... I do a search or pose my question to my favorite microblogging interface and ask my 5000 friends (followers) and within seconds I can have the answer and a source (URL.) Your following becomes very valuable.  Think about the millionare game show.  If you could ask your 60 second million dollar question to twitter, google, or facebook.  You'd have a different experience on each.

LLiu Finally! Someone said "everyone is a marketer - support, dev, etc." I heart you man! :-) Social media not just a marketing thing. #nms08

9. Retweet incredible things and big announcements - RT at the beginning of your post means ReTweet.  This is a way of passing on an important or incredible message.  It's amazing what you can fit in 140 characters, but these will give you visibility.  I recently retweeted where someone lost their teenager daughter.  In the next 10 minutes I saw the message retweeted a half dozen times.

RT @genochurch's 14 yr old daughter is missing http://tinyurl.com/5yodvb. Please retweet! (via @tranqy)
This one spread like wildfire on twitter.  I see a rate of 20 tweets per minute of this tweet now.  <Update>More like 250 per minute according to this article</update>

10. Twitter Mashups and Community - There is so much possibility here.  When you mashup maps and twitters you get twittervision.com and twitspy.com.  Look at election.twitter.com and you can imagine a sharepoint.twitter.com where you see the top recent tweets and topics and realtime rolling search results.

Stupid Twitter Tricks

Might as well face it, Twitter is here to stay. Not that it’s all that bad, just used to be a lot more laid-back and enjoyable. These days it seems to have been taken over by the lowest common-denominator, mostly high-school twits or useless commercial propaganda. Even so, I still enjoy tweeting the occasional profound thought once in awhile, and even like to play around with various types of “advanced” Twitter functionality. You know, cool stuff like including “Tweet This!” links with short URLs, showing off my number of Twitter followers, displaying the number of tweets for each post, and even backing up my marvelous tweets quickly and easily. As you might have guessed, these are the kind of stupid Twitter tricks that you will find in this article. So kick back, relax, and enjoy these twitterific techniques that will make you go tweet.

“Tweet This!” short links for posts

I like to include an easy way for readers to “tweet” my posts, but the URLs are generally way over Twitter’s 140-character limit. Fortunately, we can use PHP’s handy file_get_contents function to grab short versions of our URLs from a free minifying service like TinyURL.

All we need to do is add the following script to your web pages or your functions.php file:

function shortenURL($longURL) {
 $shortURL = file_get_contents("http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=".$longURL);
 echo $shortURL;
}

Then, in the location where you would like to display your shortened “Tweet This!” links (e.g., after your post loop), call the function and create the link with the following code:

<a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Reading:%20<?php the_title(); ?>:%20<?php shortenURL(get_permalink()); ?>" rel="nofollow">Tweet This!</a>

This is basically a link using the Twitter API to specify the contents of our tweet. For each post, the value of the_title() and get_permalink() will change to reflect its title and URL, respectively. If you are using a platform other than WordPress, you will need to use the equivalent of these dynamic tags.
Once you have this code in place, it will generate “Tweet This!” links that send the following information to Twitter (using this post as an example):

As you can see, the original long URL for this post was automatically shortened via the TinyURL service. Nice, clean and effective.
For more social media links, check out my comprehensive article, Fully Valid, SEO-Friendly Social Media Links for WordPress.

Custom short links using your own domain name

If you would rather not rely on a shortening service (such as TinyURL) for your shortened links, fret not — it is easy to create your own, customized URLs. There are several good reasons why you might prefer to use your own domain for your shortened URLs, including:

• preservation of valuable link juice
• prevention of link loss if the shortening service dies
• control over the appearance and branding of your links

The key to setting up customized shortened “Tweet This!” links is the inherent post ID that is associated with each of your posts. Regardless of whether or not you have permalinks setup, every one of your posts has its own unique post ID, such as seen in these examples:

• http://perishablepress.com/press/?p=711
• http://perishablepress.com/press/?p=712
• http://perishablepress.com/press/?p=713

We can use these post IDs to fashion our own shortened URLs, and then use those shortened URLs to create our own customized “Tweet This!” links. All we need is touch of HTAccess placed in the same .htaccess file as our WordPress permalinks:

RewriteRule ^x/([0-9]+)$ http://domain.tld/?p=$1 [R=301,L]

This directive will redirect our custom shortened URLs to our default WordPress URLs, which WordPress will then redirect according to any existing permalink rules. Once this technique has been implemented, the following redirects will take place for each of your custom URLs:

Once we have the HTAccess code in place, we use the same basic markup as in our previous example to create the link. Add the following code to the desired location in your theme file (e.g., after the post loop):

<a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Reading:%20<?php the_title(); ?>:%20<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/x/<?php the_ID(); ?>" rel="nofollow">Tweet This!</a>

This code will create “Tweet This!” links that send the following information to Twitter (using this post as an example):

As you can see, the original long URL for this post is now a customized short URL using the same domain. Feel free to change the “x” to whatever you want — just remember to edit both the markup link and the .htaccess directive if you decide to do so.
I should also note that, for any of these “shortened” URL examples, we are only using Twitter as an example application. Many sites these days simply include a shortened version of the post URL for people to copy & paste anywhere they wish. To do something similar with the current technique, we would simply include the following snippet:
<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/x/<?php the_ID(); ?>

Drop-dead simple short URLs using the post ID

For the sake of completeness, keep in mind that we can use the post ID to (re)create our original WordPress URL structure:
http://domain.tld/?p=719
That’s pretty short, and may work perfectly for your short links if the format is suitable for you. All we would need to do is include the following code into your WordPress theme:
<?php echo get_bloginfo('url')."/?p=".$post->ID; ?>
WordPress will automatically redirect such URLs to the corresponding permalink (if you have permalinks enabled).

Display the number of your Twitter followers in plain text via JavaScript

Another fun thing to do with Twitter is show off your subscriber number on your website. Many sites these days prominently display two numbers: one for their Feedburner subscriber count and another for their Twitter follower count. Displaying either count with a button or badge is a no-brainer, but displaying the numbers in plain text allows for greater stylistic control. Plain text is desirable because you can do just about anything with it, whereas a badge just kind of sits there, looking ugly.
To get our Twitter follower count in plain text, we need to include some free JavaScript made available to us at TwitterCounter. Just place this code wherever you would like to display your follower count:

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://twittercounter.com/widget/index.php?username=username"></script>

Simply edit the “username” to match your own and you are off to the races.

Display the number of your Twitter followers in plain text via PHP

If you would rather not rely on JavaScript and a third-party service to deliver your follower count data, we can use PHP’s excellent curl() functionality (edit the “www.domain.tld” to match your own):

function curl($url) {
 $ch = curl_init($url);
 curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
 curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); 
 curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_USERAGENT,"www.domain.tld");
 curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,10); 
 $data = curl_exec($ch);
 curl_close($ch);
 return $data;
}

That curl snippet will grab the content of the input URL and prepare it for parsing via the following code:

function followerCount($username) {
 $followers = curl("http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/".$username.".xml?count=1");
 $xml = new SimpleXmlElement($followers, LIBXML_NOCDATA);
 return = $xml->status->user->followers_count;
}
echo followerCount("username");

This second snippet uses SimpleXML to parse the curl output via the Twitter API. SimpleXML is pretty common on most servers running at least PHP 5. The only thing you need to edit is the “username” in the last line. Everything else is roses. Drop this code into a web page and enjoy your follower count displayed anywhere you like, and in plain-text, no less.

Display the number of tweets for each page or post

If you are running SimpleXML (you probably are, ask your host), displaying the total number of tweets for any given post or page is easily accomplished with the following slice of PHP:

function tweetCount($url) {
 $content = file_get_contents("http://api.tweetmeme.com/url_info?url=".$url);
 $element = new SimpleXmlElement($content);
 $tweets = $element->story->url_count;
  echo $tweets . " tweets!";
}

If you are using WordPress, you may place that code into your active theme’s functions.php file. Then, to display the total number of tweets for your posts, you would add the following function call to your post loop:
<?php tweetCount($post->permalink); ?>
You can also show the number of tweets for a particular page, even if it is not on your site. For example:
<?php tweetCount("http://perishable.biz"); ?>

Backup your tweets

Once you have been tweeting for awhile, you may begin to wonder what would happen if Twitter ever lost all of your tweets. It could happen, and if it does, do your tweets contain anything of value? If they do, I would highly recommend making regular backups (like monthly or something) of all your tweets. Doing so is easy. All you need to do is login to your Twitter account and enter the following URL into your browser:

http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/username.xml?count=n

Before this will work, you need to replace the “username” with your actual username, and also change the “n” with the number of tweets you would like to download. To download all of your tweets, check your number of updates on your Twitter profile page. After entering this URL into your browser, you will be taken to an XML page containing your tweets. To make a backup, just save that page to a safe location on your computer.
Now you can rest so easy just knowing deep down that all your precious tweets are safe and sound ;)

Twitter Tricks How to Do Various Things With Twitter

1. Know When Others Talk About You

With TweetBeep, you can set up Twitter alerts. These alerts can be about anything, such as your name, user ID, website URL, etc. Whenever anyone from anywhere tweets about this, you will get an email. Cool way for ego-tweeting.

2. Auto-posting on Twitter

Just sign up on TwitterFeed. It allows you to automate tweeting with any RSS/Aton feed. Just input your blog feed, and whenever it updates, a tweet will be made in your profile. In the same way, you can give your followers good content, by feeding some interesting important blogs or niche/news sites.

3. Know Whom to Follow on Twitter

Just follow MrTweet. This is a Twitterbot that will tell you some users you will be interested in following. The data is collected from your tweets and the people you are following.

4. Know When Someone Stops Following You

If you want to track if any user stops following you and enquire why, just go to Quitter and sign up an alert. TwitterLess also does this service, but seems to require your Twitter password (why? I don't know). Just follow @tless to sign up.

5. Know What's up at Twitter

Just follow Twitter's own official Twitter profile, and you will get to know everything happening in Twitter.

6. Following Twitter Conferences/Meetups

Just hashtag your tweets related to any specific topic. This means, when you start a conversation with someone on Twitter, just put a '#' before the topic and it will be tracked automatically. To track these hashtags, just to Hashtags.org

7. Posting and Managing Multiple Twitter Accounts

You ever wanted to type one Twitter message and post it across multiple accounts you own? Then Splitweet is the tool you should use.

8. Cross-posting Your Tweets to Jaiku

By using the Twitter application, Twhirl that makes use of Adobe AIR technology, you can cross-post your tweets to your Jaiku account. It also supported Pownce accounts (which is now shut down).

9. Larger 240-character Tweets

Use BigTweet for the purpose. You can drag this button to your bookmarks toolbar to enable this: BigTweet.

10. Schedule Your Tweets

Use TweetLater. This application takes your Twitter credentials and posts on your profile at any scheduled time, which means, you can update "I am sleeping!" when you are sleeping.

Conclusion

So they were ten useful Twitter services. You will find updated edition of this post as newer apps are researched. Just make sure you bookmark this page.

Also read: The Complete Guide to Twitter

5 Cool Twitter Tricks You Should Be Using

Most twitter users completely under utilize twitter and those that know how to use it have a huge advantage and can gain a huge following.
5 twitter tricks to maximize twitter traffic
1 Create a post on your blog that is twitter related or something that your twitter followers would be interested in. For instance this very blog post is a good example. Try to deliver some good content that people would love to share on twitter.
2 Optimize your blog to work with twitter, as you can see I have optimized my blog with a few simple wordpress plug-ins most of which are free.
3 Optimize your blog to get members on your mailing list or to subscribe to your blog.
This creates another form of connecting with people and growing your twitter following, you can even send out an email on Aweber and have it post on twitter.
4 Utilize the @ reply on twitter such as @jbode if you were sending a reply to me. This creates several important advantages including more exposure for you and the person your replying to, twitter users are more likely to check an @ reply than a direct message, an @ reply is more personal…
5 Start using this in your blog and you will get more blog traffic
Plus it is free to do and once you figure it out it is easy to implement.
Create a blog post as indicated in tip 1, optimize your blog as in tips 2 & 3.
Now you are ready to add this powerful little link to the bottom of your blog post.

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   This service has been discontinued. X-Friends is a unique tool for tracking friends that disappear from Facebook.
   

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16. How to Hide Your Online Status on Facebook Chat from Select Contacts

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2. A simple guide to terminate, delete or cancel Facebook account, together with the Facebook profile easily.