Yes, That is right. If you are reading my blog post, that means you want to find Tweeple that will always follow you back. I have been using Twitter for a while and I plan to offer something for my readers by collecting the list of Twitter followers who will actually follow you back. But there is always one trick, you are really supposed to follow them as well.

Twitter is basically a micro-blogging tool that you can have 140 characters to type in and let others share with your thoughts, status, being and news. So, make sure you always follow them while they are willing to follow you back, I don’t want to bore you with long list, because I actually maintain the list who would actually follow you back in return.

So, go get the list http://twitter.com/NandaLinnAung/followers

You won’t be disappointed with the outcome. Especially you are a newbie to Twitter. Enjoy and Leave a comment below with your Twitter account, so that more people can be able to follow you. So would I.

I am now thinking about little bit of documenting about twitter trends…  Because its fun to see how the trend is moving around the net.

So, today’s search and trending topics are currently

• #nottosayonfirstdate
• New MoonNew Moon, the next Twilight movie, will be out in theaters Nov. 20. Fans can’t wait.
• Thierry HenryWorld Cup soccer fans are upset about what many consider a blatant handball violation which led to a French goal and eventual win against Ireland in a qualifying match today (Nov. 18).
• #IReallyLoveTILA
• #FunnyButNOTCOOL
• #svuk
• #openwebawards@mashable’s 3rd Annual Open Web Awards, Social Media Edition. Voting on the 5 top nominations in each category takes place Nov. 18 – Dec. 13. Winners to be announced Dec. 15.
• IrelandIreland lost to France 1-2 in a World Cup qualifying soccer match (Nov. 18).
• ThanksgivingIn the United States, people give thanks on the fourth Thursday in November (in 2009, the 26th). People are tweeting their holiday plans, which traditionally include turkey.
• FIFA

It’s actually interesting to see twitter has now global player as you can actually see search such as Thierry Henry is now dominating Twitter as football/soccer is pretty much not the hot topic but the total volume of twitter users are no longer dependent on US population, which is pretty good news for Twitter.

So, what are your thoughts?

Previously, I have posted about viral marketing for online advertising. Now, I want to share a little bit further more about viral marketing and why should we use it in order to drive massive traffic to our websites.

So, cut to the chase, WHY do we use viral marketing techniques?

1. quick to drive traffic (once it’s starting to spread, there’s basically no limit, the message will pick up the speed faster and to the bigger audience)
2. cost effective (once again, no limit, easy to start and cheap to expect the traffic, make sure your site has some to offer for your visitors to become regular)
3. niche gathering (you will eventually find where your niche is headed and your target audience in no time as long as you offer unique content that are original, photographer offers photoblog whereas geek-blog offers all technology news)

Bottom Line, traffic means money, relevant niche means more money, cost effective mean more money. So, what else shall I say?

viral marketing

So, this comes the question, WHAT are the techniques?

1. I am going to repeat this again, provide quality content, products or services. (provide something which is unique for your visitors)
2. Give something away (I would recommend gmail service to my friends because they basically gave away free service for e-mail, don’t they? you gotta offer something so that will create buzz).
3. Recommendation or referral on your site. (something like share this post, email to a friend, etc etc, that will create more buzz because I would really recommend to my friend if a particular website offer something nice)
4. Have some video clips, or free e-book to give away or have a personal blog about your interest on the site (that will also give some kind of expose to your visitors and yes it does really attract traffic)
5. Social bookmarking icons and links (They are basically helping you to bookmark or submit to the sites, either way, they are good for traffic, easy for search engine to index, my personal favorites regarding SEO are reddit, technorati and digg)
6. Use RSS feed or any sort of Feed (Some of my audience like RSS feed because they are firefox fans, some of them love email feed as well, so feedburner or similar service sites can offer, I use feedburner of course, you can set up either RSS feed or email subscription)
7. Do what others do not generally offer (It’s very simple but sometimes it is easily overlooked in many cases, for example, I enabled “do-follow” plugin in my wordpress, which default is “no-follow” for commenters, so I would get more visitors who will want to have do-follow link on my site and will write more comments as well.
8. Run on-site competitions (Many internet gurus are still using this method, and that’s how they get massive traffic and regular visitors)
9. Build a community and relationship with your visitors (Communication is the key to success, if you interact with your visitors, you will build the better relationship between you and your visitors that is very good for long term)

Ok, There are main 9 methods I have tested and experimented in the past and they have created impressive traffic for me.

So, start right now because what I have suggested will cost next to nothing. You can basically start with no-investment methods such as adding referal scripts, RSS setup, email subscriptions and some fabulous content first.

Thanks for reading. Now, I will go back to build my viral marketing for another site

I would like to introduce an awesome little plugin for your wordpress. In default setting, wordpress does not have archival function, and I sincerely think it is very important that you have archive function on your site, not only it will help you index your posts faster, but also your readers can see the chronological order of your post entries and complete list of your creation. 

There are about 3-4 plugins for wordpress archive process, but I picked this one because It is very easy to install and absolutely effective to view. Thanks for the author viper007Bond for this fabulous script. You can download the plug-in here. According to viper007Bond,

Clean Archives Reloaded generates a list of all of your posts, sorted by month. It’s enhanced with Javascript to allow collapsing and expanding of months.

It’s highly efficient and won’t kill your server with tons of MySQL queries.

I’ll quote directly from the installation page, so that you will have no error to intall this fantastic plugin.

Installing The Plugin

Extract all files from the ZIP file, making sure to keep the file structure intact, and then upload it to /wp-content/plugins/.

This should result in the following file structure:

- wp-content
    - plugins
        - clean-archives-reloaded
            | readme.txt
            | clean-archives-reloaded.php

Then just visit your admin area and activate the plugin.

See Also: “Installing Plugins” article on the WP Codex

plug in install

Here is my example screenshot from my blog. Enjoy your plugin.

InfoMM Archive

Thanks for reading.