Spam or Promotion?

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I was having a quick look on my stats yesterday.  Amongst my referels was one from Twitter coming from Vampire something or other.  They had put me on their spamming list.   Obviously they feel it is their duty to go around and police Twitter.  The problem of course with this is that it is irrelevant.  Tweeting a one liner or a micro blog makes it very easy for followers to decide if they want to read your tweets or not. For most of us Twitting is promotion, you can dress it up anyway you want, promoting your site with microblogs is in itself spamming.  I seriously doubt that this vampire supply shop would spend so much time Tweeting had they not had the sole intention of driving worthwhile traffic to their site.  Tweeting manually ( which they claim) is hard enough to do without doing it hung by ankles from the ceiling!

Since the majority on Twitter are in it for promotion, most don't care.  As long as we interact with some friendly banter, acknowledge messages & retweet our following from time to time, we are perceived to be managing our account well.  Most of my Tweets are not read as they are posted.  They are read in RSS feeds from subscribers to which they are more relevant.  So suddenly it is not spam it is necessary & valuable data.  It is also this service that makes our Free Ads unique.  Tweeting individual classified posts would have very little value without this.  In fact it would only serve to promote our site as opposed to promote the individual advert.

Whilst we are a new classified site, it does not mean that ads do not get the right amount of exposure.  Our hit rate grows daily and ads also go out on other sites.  Consequently this is a viable site to submit a free advert to. 

I am about to embark on more keyword analysis & have a heavy day ahead of me.

So in the name of SEO;
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