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| Don’t Just Type Your “Tweets”- Speak Them Posted: 24 Aug 2009 10:49 AM PDT When it comes to social networks, Twitter is definitely king. With millions of users, and new ones coming on board daily, this micro-blogging service is a very powerful communication tool. In the space of 140 characters, you can type short messages and instantly send them to your “followers”. But what if you don’t have Internet access and you still want to send those tweets? No problem. If you have a phone, you can speak your messages, and within a short amount of time see them posted on Twitter. Let’s review some of the services that can be used to make this possible. 1) http://www.TwitWoop.com Your voice message can be up to 140 seconds long. Your followers can even use reply codes and respond in kind to your messages. You can register up to two phones per Twitter account. After registering, you’ll need to call a New York or California phone number to record your outgoing tweets. If you live out of state, you will be charged long distance call rates. 2) http://www.CallTweet.com Local access numbers are provided which you can call. All you need to do is enter in your username and password, and start talking. Your followers will receive a tweet that contains a link back to your audio message. Simple. 3) http://www.TweetCall.com It doesn’t get any easier than this. Once registered, call 877-TWEETCALL and speak your “tweet”. Within minutes, it’s passed on to your Twitter account. Your user name and password for this site are the same as your Twitter account. 4) http://www.TwitterFone.com No Internet access? This free service makes it possible to speak your message into any phone, and within 5 to 10 minutes have it posted on Twitter. You’ll need to ask for an “invitation” to be able to register for TwitterFone. Local numbers are provided. “Twitter Streams” can also be replied to, or direct messages can also be sent. So, the next time you want to tell the world what you’re up to, forget the computer and “speak your tweets”. Now that you know how easy it is to do, you might find that this is your favorite way of updating your followers, and “Tweet Speak” might just become your second language. I sure wish they would have taught this in High School. Merle’s Mission Blog- “Rants, Raves and Random Acts of Kindness” a self proclaimed “Internet Junkie” with a passion for net marketing, affiliate marketing, social networking. An avid Blogger and writer with several niche sites to her credit. Find out more at Post from: SiteProNews: Webmaster News & Resources Don’t Just Type Your “Tweets”- Speak Them |
| Google Displaying Breadcrumb Navigation in SERP Snippets Posted: 24 Aug 2009 05:19 AM PDT
Breadcrumb navigation shows the user’s path in relation to their current location. It’s the little trail of keywords you often see at the top of the page, below the main header image telling you what section of a site you are on. There’s a good explanation here. Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped blogged about seeing breadcrumbs in Google SERPs as far back as July. Leo Fogarty has seen a couple of results on closely related search queries. Now Chris Crum of Web Pro News reports a few random instances of breadcrumb SERP usage. Google have always encouraged webmasters to use breadcrumb navigation for usability purposes and now they’re apparently going to reward webmasters who take their advice by including breadcrumbs within their site snippet. Here’s a screengrab of how breadcrumbs look in the Google SERPs for the search query “car hire Spain”:
As you can see, the keywords in the breadcrumbs that match the search query are bolded, meaning that they are included in the algorithmic ranking factors for that query. So potentially, the use of breadcrumb navigation as an SEO tactic has just become a whole lot more important. A check of the pages displaying the breadcrumbs in their snippets confirms the use of breadcrumb navigation and the exact breadcrumb trail included in the snippet e.g. http://www.auto-europe.co.uk/car-hire/Spain.cfm. I personally haven’t seen any breadcrumbed SERPs but it’s apparently quite rare so far, with the testing possibly limited to UK sites. Have you seen any? Please let us know via the comments below. Post from: SiteProNews: Webmaster News & Resources Google Displaying Breadcrumb Navigation in SERP Snippets |
A couple of bloggers have reported seeing breadcrumb trails in Google Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs) lately, meaning they may be testing the inclusion of breadcrumb navigation as part of site snippets.
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