Posted by Ray White on February 27, 2010 Comments (0)

You’ve worked hard to establish your brand on Twitter. You carefully crafted your 140-character bio with important keywords and phrases related to your niche. You have your website url on your profile. You put out great information in your tweets. Your followers are all perfectly targeted. Now it’s beginning to pay off. Your superior knowledge is getting you recognized. You are being added to Twitter lists, putting you on the same level as the leading experts in your field. How do you leverage this newfound notoriety? Use Listorious to spread the Twitter love.

Listorious.com is a directory of Twitter lists. Lists are not automatically added, but anybody can submit a list to the site. You can submit the lists that you have set up on your Twitter account, or you can submit someone else’s lists. If you submit someone else’s list, it would best benefit you if you are on it along with other leading experts in your niche. What does adding your Twitter lists, or lists that you are on, do for you? Every list is tagged, meaning they can be easily pulled up on a search engine result for those tags. Every Twitter profile associated with that list is also added. That means your bio and your website url are added, too. Having your Twitter lists on Listorious puts you, along with your link and bio with related keywords, on a high-traffic website where you can be found by spiders for search engine results. If you have Google Alerts set up for monitoring your brand, you will be notified within a day or two of the list submission.

To better clarify, you want to submit lists that are specific for your niche, not the lists of “friends” or “tweeps to follow” that have people from different niches. You want to submit “blog” or “blogger” lists if that’s your thing, or “marketing” or “crafts” or whatever your expertise is. And you want everybody else, or as many as possible, on that list to be in the same niche. The point is to bolster your standing as an expert in your field, and to add another search engine result for you under your keywords.

How to submit your Twitter lists to Listorious

Grab the url of the list you want to submit

You find the url of the list by going to your Twitter profile and clicking on the “listed” link under your bio. Then you will be taken to a page with the list of lists that you are on. Click on the list name. Then copy the url from the address bar of your browser.

Go to Listorious

Click the “Add List” link at the top right of the page

You will need to allow Listorious access to your Twitter account. If you are comfortable doing this, click the “allow” button and continue. If you are not comfortable allowing access to your Twitter account, someone else may submit the list. Maybe you know someone who will do it for you if you don’t want to wait around for that to happen.

Put the url of the list you want to submit in the “Enter URL of any Twitter List” box OR Choose the list from the “Or select a Twitter list you created or are part of:” dropdown box

If you copied the list url earlier, here is where you paste it. Alternatively, you may choose from the lists shown in the dropdown box. Note that the list in the dropdown box shows Twitter lists that have not yet been added to Listorious.

Put your keywords in the “Tags:” text box

The tags is how people can find the lists that you are on. You want the tags to be associated with your brand. Use your keywords or phrases. You might try to choose tags from the “Top Tags” list, too.

Click the blue “Add List” button

Congratulations, you are now listed in Listorious!