{"id":1778,"date":"2010-12-15T05:14:19","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T10:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2010-12-10T15:27:51","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T20:27:51","slug":"should-local-selling-businesses-start-using-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2010\/12\/15\/should-local-selling-businesses-start-using-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Local Selling Businesses Start Using Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the real push from search engines to integrate social network activity into your personalized search results Twitter for local selling businesses has become meaningful. The best feature with Twitter is its totally viral nature. 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I would recommend first looking to follow people particularly in your geographic area that are on Twitter. If they retweet your information or tip, you may be tapping into a whole local network driven by this one local user; neighbors, friends, colleagues, family members. Use hashtags to focus attention on your location and service category. You just never know if someone will search on Twitter for a resource or review. Additionally, as search engines figure out how they will use Twitter in their search index, early embracers of Twitter may find themselves way ahead of their competition because they have established a better &#8220;SocialRank&#8221; based on the number of followers and the authority of who these followers are. We are not exactly sure what the search engines will be doing with Twitter, but we do know for sure they are carefully considering how to implement\u00a0Twitter results in their indexes. 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