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Just in case you have never heard of twitter; it is a social media site that instantaneously took off and gained popularity from the first “tweet”. You can choose to follow people (and hope that they follow you back) by searching by keywords. For instance, an internet marketer would probably search for friends by finding those who have tweeted about internet marketing or working at home, or something similar. It’s very addictive and many people have more than one account. One account is usually used for business and the other for friends and family.
With the many twitter applications available you can basically zoom in on your target customers or readers just by getting to know your way around. Remember that others are searching based on keywords as well so the more you tweet your “keywords” the more interested people you will likely get who want to follow you. However, being a social site there are some spoken and unspoken rules in the community. If you want the number of followers (hence, more traffic) then you must interact within the community. Here are some ways twitter can help you drive targeted traffic to your website.
Branding: Establish yourself as an expert, but do it in a friendly way. Tweet casually for a while before you start tossing the link to your website out there. Recommend other sites of interest to your niche. By doing this your followers will begin to associate you with your niche and will be eager to visit your website. After all-you’re the expert!
Tweet carefully: You have 140 characters to make your point. Be witty, informative and helpful and more and more people will begin to go to your website. Again, use your keywords as much as possible but not in every tweet. People recognize an advertisement so you will have to be clever slipping the link in there.
Community: As strange as it sounds, the more helpful you are (including recommending other blogs and websites) the more people will trust you and know you are not just a tweeting sales pitch. Again, when people trust you they are more apt to find out what your website is all about.
Followers and Following: There are different theories on this but basically every follower you have is a potential visitor to your website. If you want to know how twitter can drive targeted traffic to your website then you will need to know that you cannot be too selective on who you follow back. Obviously there are some that you just know will have no mutual interest but basically every follower is a potential customer. People know who follows them back and who doesn’t (there is a twitter application for that too) so some will eventually quit following you if you do not follow back.
The reason Twitter continues to grow in numbers is that for personal use, it’s fun and for business use, it’s profitable. It has been proven time and time again that you can gain traffic via twitter. Just like in real time, people on social media sites tend to form some cliques but generally everyone communicates with everyone else. There are some people who may be following you that you don’t hear from for a week and then suddenly, they are asking you a question. This type of interaction is how twitter drives targeted traffic to your website. When they have a question, they know who to ask.
If you are already on twitter but not as an “expert” in your field then you may want to start a business account. You can send some of your follower’s messages to follow you under your business account. If you have not yet started a twitter account, it is best to join, follow a few people and then just watch the interaction for a while. Be fairly quiet at first but interact. There is a knack to learning to twitter in a way that will drive traffic to your site. Once you learn that, you will be able to drive tons of traffic to your website.
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[...] … website, then it is bound to get attention. People are definitely going to be interested Traffic Monday: How twitter can help you drive targeted traffic to your website – blogriffic.com 05/24/2009 Just in case you have never heard of twitter; it is a social media site [...]
Looks like everyone is trying to market their blog/website through twitter. I am really not into this twitter thingy, but guess now I see the potential in tweeting.
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Hi LithiumMind,
Give it a try, it’s not all bad!
Lithium, i know what you mean. for the longest time the thing was being screwy and not letting me stop following martha stewart for some reason, and went from thinking twitter was worthless to thinking that it was annoying and worthless. anyway, so far the main appeal is really just the marketing side, and also just to see what people are talking about in general by checking the most tweeted stuff.
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I have used them in the past but I haven’t been able to drive any traffic to my websites so I have stopped.
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Hi Paul,
Like any other traffic generation method, it might work it might not and patience sometime really also play a big part.
I heard that many bloggers use twiteer to drive traffic to their site. But I still not use it. Maybe it’s time for me to take a look. Thanks =)
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Blinkky Pls tell me what is your experience with it. Are you comfortable with it?
Give it a try Blinkky!
What did you find with it have you tried it or not, if not than try it and tell us you experience.
Twitter has given my blog quite a bit of traffic and that traffic has converted to sales!! Twitter is definitely huge!
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Hi Jake,
Yeah I totally vouch for twitter, worked for me too!
Nice to see you here
Well, it’s been a while since I registered my Twitter account, and I’m not someone who follows everyone and not getting quality followers/following. Hehe.
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you have to work your way to the top, or else they will block you.
Yeah! Thanks for the tip.
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just don’t spam your messages. be careful there lots of spam reporters on twitter.
Yeh never be a spammer, it’s not a good name
“Tweet casually for a while before you start tossing the link to your website out there. Recommend other sites of interest to your niche.”
Some of the best advice out there. far too many fail because they are way to self centered and then blame it on twitter.
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Very true Dennis,
Sometimes before blaming on something, think about it first as to why is that or better yet why it works on mijority of people and not me
Hello ,
@Lithium Mind Yes everyone is for marketing in twitter . But as said in the post make sure you also twitt here and there stuff too , link to other sites .I have done that often and seen traffic increasing for sure .
Regards
Sudeep
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Hi Sudeep,
You brought out a nice point. I guess the problem with some, is that it’s only been about self promotion. So it would be best if sometimes the tweets were not related to our website. that make sense. Thanks
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Salwa, I think you forgot about powerful #followfriday hashtag. Believe me, it has potential of adding at least 50 followers on friday (hence more traffic) if used smartly.
Also recently I wrote a guest article at DailyBlogTips on building traffic http://bit.ly/uqrf6 . Hope your readers will find that useful too.
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Hi Whibb,
Thanks for sharing the link to your article with us and yes you are right about the followfriday hastag, just be careful to use it wisely.
It’s a good idea to find top Twitter users in your field and see how they go about using Twitter. Do they share more than they advertise? Do they participate in the Twitter trends? Do they reply back to people who ask questions? Do they follow lots of people?
~ Kristi
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Kikolani,
Yes always try to learn from the experts, or atleast those who’s doing very well with it.
I really enjoy your “Traffic Monday” articles Salwa!
That said, Twitter is a great source of traffic, if you use it correctly. I’m not sure that Twitter should be your main focus on building traffic, but it’s helpful none-the-less.
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Hi Jeremiah,
Thank you, glad you enjoy them
You are right about been Twitter your main focus on building traffic, in fact never rely on just one source of traffic, even with search engines!
I have tried to follow the followers of a top twitter member.. I have started to use this technique and the results are great, thanks Salwa!
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Does that technique work well? I have been trying to gain a few more loyal followers, but getting followers that want to interact with you seems hard. A lot of twitter users just seem to broadcast, you know what I mean?
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You welcome Hesham
and thanks for stopping by!
I am realy unhappy on how Twitter has changed/evolved over the past couple of months. Twitter was meant to be a microblogging site where people interact/share their views. But now it has just become a hub for Internet marketing, spam, scam etc
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Raju,
You are right, twitter has indeed become a centre of spammers, and scams but still for just normal people while interacting and sharing views with with other twitter users and making new friends along the way, it can be a great tool for networking and turning those people to wanting to visit your website or blog.
Very useful tips Salwa. I agree with this “Tweet casually for a while before you start tossing the link to your website out there.”. In any social networking sites if you with an intention of just drawing traffic for your blog the it will never work. First we should learn to give the readers useful informations and continuing that will automatically bring traffic and readers for your site. The bottom line is the we should never let the readers get the feeling that we are self centric
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Overll a good post Salwa.
Cheers
Krish
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Krish,
Exactly! In other words you just need to make people like you first
Great article as usual Salwa. I tend to promote my last blog post in almost each tweet, I should start tweeting about different things. My twitter follower increased when I was writting update about my blog, now I’ll try to use twitter to introduce the products I’m going to promote. Twitter has a lot of potencial, and I have no hard time believing that it could make you get a 6 figures income in the years to come. Just need a good strategy and have ingenious idea
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Very true Benjamin, and you sometime just need to be cleaver about it that’s all
I am already using the twitters but i never got much traffic from there.I dont have many followers also.i will try to get more followers to get more traffic.
Even thought I only have 130 followers, this number increased depending on what I tweet. I’m very satisfied with this small number because I only started blogging recently. I advice you to follow the top blogger to get more followers. Also try to tweet something valuable for the people so that they will be interested in following you. You should think about what you like in other twitter account to improve your own twitter account.
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Great write-up about Twitter Salwa. I resisted it, but finally bit the bullet a few weeks ago and I must say I love it! It is fun and easy and allows me to quickly share so many things with people.
I have not done any techniques though to get people to follow, I am kind of hoping it grows organically, that way I hopefully get more readers who really are interested in what I have to say.
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Hi Evita,
I like your plan, rather than having thousands of followers who are non responsive, it’s better to have few who are really interested in you and what you have to say.
Thanks for taking time to comment, as always it is much appreciated.
For some reason I am following all those who follow me in twitter automatically. I dont what I did but this is happening on its own. Is there any way I can stop this? Is this something to do with the settings?
Cheers
Krish
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Hi Krish,
Hhm i am not really sure to why is that? I know they are some twitter tools where you can follow those who follow you automatically, did you try to use any of them before?
I don’t if twitter can bring a lot of traffic,
but I just love how Twitter can let me follow the people inside my niche,
I tweet as usual, I tweet the link I like and it gains me follower from the tweet I RT…
=), use it for networking and create a good post,
and tweet your own post once for a while…
it’s a great networking tools…
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Sayz,
It is indeed a great networking tool. It can help you grow your personal brand, and open up new relationships and networks that you could never have dreamed of having access to.
I love Twitter and only wish I had more time to spend using it. It’s a very useful networking tool but it’s also fun!
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Melissa,
Same here, i wished i had more time to spend using it.
Thanx for listing out the twitter usability dude. Since I registered in twitter, i’m never use it in my blog coz i don’t know why its must used. Hehehe… Thank you very much after all…
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Hi Thegands,
lol and you welcome, glad i could help
I think that it is about time that I give Twitter a look.
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Yes try it
Hi salwa,
looking forward to you for another interesting and informative post.
Thank you Insolvency Service.
I get most of my traffic from Twitter, but I’m not sure if that’s a good thing because I dont get much conversion from Twitter. I’ve been using it on an off for almost two years but have been more active with it for the past six months.
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Carla,
I face same problem conversion problem with twitter traffic, but end of the end traffic is traffic!
Thanks for your comment, much appreciated.
I have an account on twitter, but really have not used is that much to drive traffic to my blog…
Nice informative post, will use twitter potential to the maximum when i get the time!
Keep up the good work!
Cheers
Sandeep
Thank you Sandeed, and please do give it a try and let us know how it work out for you!
I am also want to know that how it is work and how it will be so effective for us. Please tell me the effective way to use it. Thanks for it.
Twitter is something that I have been putting off , thanks for these guidelines they will help as I navigate the Twitter learning curve, just hope it isn’t too steep.
Thanx
You welcome Doug
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im don’t have a twitter account yet but im going to make one, im researching topics to make my content be read by lots of people and this topic is really helpful… well good luck on my first tweet! :p
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thanks for the info:)
I’m still on learning process with twitter. Thanks for sharing dear.
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Hmm nw-a-days every1 is trying 2 market their blog or website through twitter…
personally am nt in this twitter n all..
bt nw i think to gve a try atleast..
have heard that many bloggers use this twitter to drive traffic to their blog/website…
bt nw i think i need to register in twitter account..
Thnx for sharing…
I registered my Twitter account, and I’m not someone who follows everyone and not getting quality followers/following. Hehe.
Anyway, so far the main appeal is really just the marketing side, and also just to see what people are talking about in general by checking the most tweeted stuff.
I guess the problem with some, is that it’s only been about self promotion.People are definitely going to be interested Traffic Monday: How twitter can help you drive targeted traffic to your website.
bloggers use this twitter to drive traffic to their blog/website…
bt nw i think i need to register in twitter account..
I dont get much conversion from Twitter. I’ve been using it on an off for almost two years but have been more active with it for the past six months.
I believe twitter is one of the best internet marketing medium nowadays. A lot of people are using this for personal and business purposes. One thing I know why they prefer this, is that it is easy to use and it is one of the hottest marketing tool now. But if we are going to use this, we need to make it interesting, funky and cool. Tweets should be informative too.
Twitter is a great way to get targeted traffic. Thanks for sharing this info with us. Twitter is very important to have for anyone who wishes to make money online.
I had also created My Profile on Twitter and Tweets daily .. Check my Profile on Twitter http://twitter.com/mrtejkohli
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