Productivedreams.com » twitter http://www.productivedreams.com A blog to keep you updated on the latest design trends. Sat, 27 Mar 2010 04:09:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 How to improve the page rank of your twitter profile page http://www.productivedreams.com/how-to-improve-the-page-rank-of-your-twitter-profile-page/ http://www.productivedreams.com/how-to-improve-the-page-rank-of-your-twitter-profile-page/#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:09:18 +0000 Gopal Raju http://www.productivedreams.com/?p=1529 Before reading further, I would suggest you to check the PR of your twitter profile page. Also try checking the PR’s of the giants. I’m glad to see Google Page Rank impacting the public social [...]]]> As I mentioned in my previous post, a good page rank for your twitter profile means you are someone worth following.

Twitter Page Rank

Before reading further, I would suggest you to check the PR of your twitter profile page. Also try checking the PR’s of the giants. I’m glad to see Google Page Rank impacting the public social media profiles of services like twitter.

So what is Google looking for? Check out this quote from Marketing Professor.

What is Google Looking For?

* Credible inbound links from sources with credible inbound links
* Quality thematic content in their Twitter stream (jumping from dog training to affiliate marketing, to dieting in your twitter stream may get different results than sticking to one theme or topic of discussion… key phrases).
* Outbound links to credible sources.

It wouldn’t surprise me if they are also looking at social measures (retweets, locations, and @ replies).

The tips mentioned below are based on my experience, I would love to hear your suggestions (especially from SEO experts).


1. Quality of your tweets

Sharing quality links is of course the first and foremost thing. If you don’t share your followers wont care! If you want to gain the attention of bloggers, try your best to tweet things that are relevant to your area of expertise. If someone is following a designer on twitter, that obviously means they are expecting him/her to share design related stuff. TwitterGrader is a nice tool to evaluate your performance in the twittersphere.

Bloggers often post round ups about the best Tweeters in a certain niche and following are a few examples of such posts.

25 SEO Gurus you should follow on Twitter

40 Web Developers to Follow on Twitter

11 Epic WordPress Plugin Developers to Follow on Twitter

I would also recommend you to use hash tags as widely as possible.

2. Adding a Follow Me button in your website

I am sure, most of you would have already done this. But if you haven’t, include a follow me button in your blog/website and also show your recent twitter updates. So that makes one profile link, for google spiders to crawl through ;)

3. Create an attractive twitter theme

Though it sounds less useful, it matters a lot. Your twitter has to be unique as to stand out from the crowd. Try to make your twitter theme as creative as possible. This lets bloggers include you in their round ups on the best twitter themes. Don’t forget to choose an attractive display image for your profile as well.

There are a few twitter background galleries out there and I am sure there will be more. I have included the links to their submission pages below.

Twitter Backgrounds Gallery

All you need to do here is follow them on twitter and post a tweet.

Twitter Backgrounds Gallery
Tweet Backs

Follow the same process here.

tweetbacks

And the one below can be considered as a milliondollarwall for tweeters.

The Tweet Wall

Know what? I’ve worked on this project ;) Posting your profile is absolutely free.

thetweetwall

4. Post your profile on other Social Networking sites

Add your twitter updates and profile links on social networking sites like facebook, linkedin, myspace, friendfeed etc. You may go through the following posts for more details on how to display your twitter status.

How To Add Twitter to Facebook

How to Add Twitter to LinkedIn

How to Add Twitter to a MySpace Page

5. Submit your profile on Twitter Directories

Here goes a comprehensive list of twitter directories, which includes the Page Rank and Alexa Rank of each directory.

21 Twitter Directories and Follower Finders to Expand Your Twittersphere

A few other suggestions(thought it doesn’t affect your PR directly) would be to add your twitter profile url in your email signature and to attend TweetUps on a regular basis (a kind of offline promotion). For those who don’t know what a TweetUp is – Its just a gathering of people who use Twitter.

So what is your twitter profile PR? Do you have a suggestion? Please make use of the comment form :)

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]]> http://www.productivedreams.com/how-to-improve-the-page-rank-of-your-twitter-profile-page/feed/ 46 Twibies.com – The ultimate twitter resource for designers http://www.productivedreams.com/twibies-com-the-ultimate-twitter-resource-for-designers/ http://www.productivedreams.com/twibies-com-the-ultimate-twitter-resource-for-designers/#comments Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:50:24 +0000 Gopal Raju http://www.productivedreams.com/?p=1487 Happy New Year friends! Being a freelancer gives me time to come up with more posts ;)

Before we dive into more details about Twibies, let me ask you something. Have you ever checked the page rank of your twitter profile? Well… I did recently and it turned out to be 5/10. I was really surprised to see this initially, but upon further research I figured out that my twitter background/theme was featured on many sites.

What does that mean?

Simple… Design matters! And here’s something useful for designers!

Twibies.com - The ultimate collection of twitter bird illustrations, icons, themes and other freebies.

twibies

Most of you would be already familiar with this site I assume. At least, for those who have visited IndoFolio. This is my second initiative to help out designers by bringing all twitter freebies (useful for designers) under one roof.

What makes Twibies unique?

Twibies is exclusively for designers who are looking out for twitter freebies and it leaves no reason to search for or bookmark twitter icon roundups anymore! Twibies is the one stop solution for you. I’ve tried my best to make the interface as simple as possible.

Another interesting thing is that Twibies lets you choose the file format of icons. So if you are looking for a psd icon, all you need to do is choose Photoshop(PSD) from the dropdown. Its as simple as that!

Select File Format (PSD, Fireworks, Transparent PNG, Illustrator)

Question for designers: Did you create a free twitter icon set recently?

Dont’t forget to post it on Twibies :) It has a page to submit your freebie (whether its a theme, an icon set or any design based on twitter).

The form is really simple and wouldn’t ask for your neighbours date of birth and all that crap ;)

submit-twibie

Wanna receive an update whenever a twibie is posted?

You can either subscribe the RSS or just follow me on twitter. I would love to hear suggestions and feedbacks from YOU – the real users!

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]]> http://www.productivedreams.com/twibies-com-the-ultimate-twitter-resource-for-designers/feed/ 12 Best ways to display twitter updates http://www.productivedreams.com/tweet-display/ http://www.productivedreams.com/tweet-display/#comments Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:53:51 +0000 Gopal Raju http://www.productivedreams.com/?p=865 2. Alexandre Pereira
3. CSS Globe
4. Dark Motion
5. Deziner Folio
6. Gabe Diaz
7. Indiqo
8. Komodomedia
9. Laptopical
10. Once Made
11. Ondrej Vertat
12. Pawnda
13. Pro [...]]]> Back to twitter ;) Just thought of collecting sites with the best tweet display. Showing tweets on websites is of course a trend but the way these websites display is really awesome.

1. Athena Emily

athenaemily

2. Alexandre Pereira

alexper

3. CSS Globe

cssglobe

4. Dark Motion

darkmotion

5. Deziner Folio

dezinerfolio

6. Gabe Diaz

gabediaz

7. Indiqo

indiqo

8. Komodomedia

komodomedia

9. Laptopical

laptopical

10. Once Made

oncemade

11. Ondrej Vertat

ondrejvertat

12. Pawnda

pawnda

13. Pro Blog Design

problogdesign

14. Shannon Miller

shannonmoeller

15. Smart Cube

smartcube

16. The JT Site

thejtsite

17. We are Not Freelancers

wearenotfreelancers

18. Nick Finck

nickfinck

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]]> http://www.productivedreams.com/tweet-display/feed/ 26 Free Twitter Bird Icon Set http://www.productivedreams.com/free-twitter-bird-icon-set/ http://www.productivedreams.com/free-twitter-bird-icon-set/#comments Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:04:00 +0000 Gopal Raju http://www.productivedreams.com/?p=814 A New Year gift for my readers. This is my second release with SmashingMagazine.com. Yes! another FREE Twitter bird icon set! which comes with 6 icons (360×360 high quality transparent PNGs). You can freely use it for both your private and commercial projects, including software, online services, templates and themes.

However, the icons may not be offered for free downloading from websites other than SmashingMagazine.com and ProductiveDreams.com


Download PD Twitter Icon set Version v2
Preview
Free Twitter Bird Icons

Enjoy! and please don’t forget to follow me on twitter.

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]]> http://www.productivedreams.com/free-twitter-bird-icon-set/feed/ 271 Merry X’mas: Free Twitter Theme http://www.productivedreams.com/merry-xmas-free-twitter-theme/ http://www.productivedreams.com/merry-xmas-free-twitter-theme/#comments Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:16:33 +0000 Gopal Raju http://www.productivedreams.com/?p=722 Step1: Log in to your twitter account and click the ’settings’ link on the top [...]]]> I am glad to present my readers with a Christmas gift – A Free Twitter Theme. I’ve included the (PNG) fireworks source file of the Santa as well, in the zip.

Click on the image below, for preview.

Free Christmas Twitter Theme

How to use this theme?

Step1: Log in to your twitter account and click the ’settings’ link on the top right.

step1

Step 2: Now, you are in the settings page. Click the ‘design’ tab where in you could see a browse button that allows you to upload the background image. Upload the xmas.jpg file(included in the zip). Uncheck the ’tile background’ option.

step2a

step2b

Step 3: Click the ‘Change design colors’ tab. Here you can change the text color, background color, link color etc. The image below shows the settings that I recommend.

step3

And finally, here goes the file. Enjoy!

Download Merry X'mas Free Twitter Theme Version 1.0

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]]> http://www.productivedreams.com/merry-xmas-free-twitter-theme/feed/ 31 Another 15 Beautiful Twitter Themes http://www.productivedreams.com/another-12-beautiful-twitter-themes/ http://www.productivedreams.com/another-12-beautiful-twitter-themes/#comments Sun, 26 Oct 2008 07:27:16 +0000 Gopal Raju http://www.productivedreams.com/?p=403

First of all, I would like to thank all those who have posted their comments on my previous post 12 Beautiful Twitter Themes That has encouraged me to come up with this list. The themes in this post may or may not be related to the profile owners website, but I love their creativity. So here it goes…

1. Flarup

flarup

2. Mayhemstudios

mayhemstudios

3. Rachelledesigns

rachelledesigns

4. Studio3k

surfsandbec

5. Twsjonathan

twsjonathan

6. Webandarts

webandarts

7. Naldzgraphics

naldzgraphics

8. Benek

benek

9. Bookchiq

bookchiq

10. Caterina

caterina

11. Naina

naina

12. Zohoinvoice

zohoinvoice

13. Mcgstudio

mcgstudio

14. Smshum

smshum

15. Pixelnated

pixelnated
Feel free to suggest any good looking Twitter theme that you come across and don’t forget to follow me on twitter

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]]> http://www.productivedreams.com/another-12-beautiful-twitter-themes/feed/ 49 It’s Twitter Time! Free vector icon set http://www.productivedreams.com/its-twitter-time-free-vector-icon-set/ http://www.productivedreams.com/its-twitter-time-free-vector-icon-set/#comments Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:32:40 +0000 Gopal Raju http://www.productivedreams.com/?p=341 Today, I’m happy to release the Free Twitter Icon Set which is 100% vector (Fireworks file). This set contains 4 different poses of the Twitter bird. Both PNG and PSD versions has been included in the .zip file.You can use the icons for private and commercial projects, blogs and web-sites for free, without any restrictions whatsoever.

However, you are not allowed to sell or redistribute the icons.

Don’t forget to follow me on twitter Thanks and Enjoy!

Free twitter icons Download Free PD Twitter Icon Set Version 1.0

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]]> http://www.productivedreams.com/its-twitter-time-free-vector-icon-set/feed/ 307 12 Beautiful Twitter Themes http://www.productivedreams.com/10-beautiful-twitter-themes/ http://www.productivedreams.com/10-beautiful-twitter-themes/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:06:35 +0000 Gopal Raju http://www.productivedreams.com/?p=230

I’ve been browsing through a few Twitter profiles recently. If you haven’t heard about Twitter, click here Theming is an important aspect for any social networking site since that lets you represent your interests as well as your business. Good looking themes obviously draws the attention of your visitors.

Twitter has it’s own restrictions when it comes to theming. All you can do is change your background image/color, color of the side bar and fonts.

I noticed a few themes that were based on the profile owners website design(even my Twitter theme is based on my website). So just thought of putting together a few themes, that really impressed me.

1. Dezinerfolio



2. Aleklisefski



3. AlexBuga



4. Divvoted



5. Idesignstudios



6. Jakemarsh



7. larissameek



8. Melkirk



9. Rogieking



10. Timvansas



11. UstreamTV



12. Presetsheaven



Feel free to suggest any (good looking) Twitter themes that you come across and don’t forget to follow me on twitter ;)

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