Ah…that explains it, I wondered why you had unfollowed me a long time ago. I first I was hurt..and then angry…and then I realized it was all me…

I don’t know the tool you speak of – I just do the legwork which is probably more time consuming than necessary. I put my favorites on a locked list and scroll through past comments, check their blogs, check who’s commenting on their blogs and kind of social “stalk” them from afar. Then, and this is thanks to my photographic memory, I just remember who’s streams to go back and check.

Occasionally I go to the main stream and engage with folks at random; this is how I meet new folks.

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First, Foller.me – http://foller.me/rdempsey. It shows you the top words used by a Twitter user (I linked to your profile so you could see if it is accurate or not. Of course, you have to go one by one.

Two, Paper.li. You don’t have to tweet the paper if you don’t want to, but you can create one based on you follow, a particular Twitter list, and so on. It will collect the top stories from the group of people you specify and put them in a daily paper. Might be a good way to get a daily glance at what the people you follow talk about.

I’m not quite as fast and adept with technology tools like you are Robert. I’ve had a tendency to stick with the tools I figured out how to use – not the best way to go, but I do get some things done

Now that I understand your question and post better (duh) A tool like the one you speak of would be super helpful/ cool.

I stopped following people a couple years ago and basically get maybe 5 to 10 follows a day. From these I check out their social footprint, bio, etc. and follow or not. Maintaining and slowly growing the community is much more manageable this way.

A tool like the one you mention would be great too for identifying those people you would really like to connect with and you’d probably miss a lot less too

Let me know if you find a solution for this please

While twitcleaner doesn’t give you the info you want, it does at least tell you when a person last tweeted, if they just repeat the ssame URL at least 25% of the time, if they only tweet things like paper.li so perhaps it will be of some benefit to you.

None of those trending topics do it for me either. Enjoy a terrific day. Aloha. Janet

It’s been my experience that people really relate to the more personal posts. In my experience as a reader, a sense of really getting to know the blogger leads to more loyalty on my part, not less.

Also that implies that you know what you’re searching for in the first place. What if you simply want to see trends of what people within your group are talking about?

Yes, small steps do make huge differences. I have had several life experiences with that. Recently, when I was doing my writing challenge, I decided to change my position – stand up instead of sitting down comfortably in my chair. And it did make a huge difference!

Made me more productive and less stressful.

Anyways, thanks for the thoughts

Note: I especially like how you relate back this to your own experience – makes your post more interesting and a more informative.

Thanks,

Jeevan

Completely agree with you.

I didn’t do much Search engine optimization for my old blog, but when I started my new one: I was seriously considering spending some time on SEO (and I did spent some time for optimizing my posts). But, as time passed on, I realized that I can’t optimize everything. Yes, search engines are important but I primarily write for my readers, not for search engines.

Yes, we should care about SEO. But, like you said, it is okay if a few of our posts are not optimized for Search engines.

My opinion is that including personal stories and experiences make our posts unique (we blend in our personality into the posts) and entertaining to read – it also helps us to make the readers [more] loyal to our posts.

Anyways, thanks for the thoughts, Robert,

Jeevan

Awesome App, Robert!

I will be giving it a try (I usually don’t keep checklists, but I will see how it works out).

It has been some time since I visited your blog. Good to be back

Awesome post

Yes, it is always better to aim for what you actually want to achieve and work hard towards it, rather than getting a 9-5 job just for the money and regretting the mistake all throughout your life.

Guess I should have waited a little before checking your Content Curation 101. But, that’s alright. I liked your eBook

Anyways, thanks for the awesome post!

Jeevan Jacob John

One thing I still see people get hung up on is what comes even before this and that is the question of ‘do we need a website’. The answer is usually yes, but the priority of it is not always the highest. I think this is a huge mistake. People are finding answers onlien whether that’s in the social forums or a search and if you dont have a website or yours is not something you would point people to, then you need to re-think your priorities.

If the entire world can’t find that particular post on Google, will my world/my biz come to a crashing halt? Hmm. I think not. I might even get to bed earlier or have time to sing an extra song with my kids.

Tomorrow there will be plenty of time for another perfectly formatted and optimized post

The main difference between checklists and to-do’s are that to-do’s are ever changing. For example your daily list of things you need to get done is a to-do list.

A checklist on the other hand is something that doesn’t change nearly as often. So for instance I created one for Blog SEO to help people check off all the SEO points on a blog post.

Definitely start with the book to see if checklists are for you.

There is value in mixing it up and showing some personality.

I’d say test to see if it works in your niche and then do it

As for unsubscribes, some people only want the “top 50 this” or “99 million resources for this” types of posts. That’s okay. It’s also okay if people unsubscribe.

There’s a lot of people out there and if you’re trying to get them all I’ll argue that you have the wrong goal.

Thought provoking post.

I’m not so sure whether you should go with the idea that every post need not have a marketing goal. I mean, not many people would want to read about our personal life in our blog. if we have a business blog, then people usually come to it to solve problems or make things better for them.

Anyway I have tested this approach in a few of my older blogs and I have always seen that when we post personal content, interaction becomes almost zero at times. Also I have seen many people unsubscribing immediately after I share a personal post.

Well, in France, good luck getting someone to speak English – they best I get from people is lines like “I’ll be back” from English movies they’ve watched!

Can’t wait for the next installment!

Not sure who’s making this stuff up. But it does truly depend on where you go.

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I have set up an example blog post SEO checklist here – http://checklistapp.net/checklists/13