Here is an interesting business model combining a well populated Twitter profile with eBay’s affiliate program. The amount of leverage that a Twitter profile commands is determined by the same factors which determine the leverage of a RSS Feed or an email list, namely the size of your following and the focus of your niche.

For our example let’s consider the niche of high end men’s watches. So you build up a large profile on Twitter by tracking terms like “Rolex”, “Omega” and “Movado” and then adding as many of these enthusiasts as possible to your profile. (more…)

It would be nice if we were all SEO gurus, you know the type that has henchmen working for him, testing different theories to unearth the secrets of the algorithm’s latest black box. No this is not comic book time, there are experts out there that are really awesome at SEO, and entrepreneurs pay these experts awesome money for there insight and opinions.

This is all well and good if you already make a ton of money from your online business and you have gobs of it lying around to re-invest. But what if you are just starting out and don’t have access to the tips and tricks that the elite have lying at their fingertips?

The rest of us have what some have come to call, Accidental SEO. (more…)