How to Use Twitter to Increase Blog Traffic???
Twitter, a widely popular Web 2.0 client has many uses. Some think of it merely as a virtual water cooler, which allows you to talk to others, throughout the day via Twitter’s homepage or one of the several Twitter programs such as Twirl or Snitter. However, it can be a useful tool for your business or as a way to promote your blog or website.
Here are a few ideas for promoting your blog or website using Twitter, without being too spammy.
Ask questions. Once you have updated your blog why not cruise on over to Twitter and ask your virtual friends and colleagues what they think about the subject. Write a post about the state of the economy, ask, “What is your take on today’s economy?” and then link to your blog.
Use your comments. Maybe your blog has already received a few comments from your latest entry, peek interest from others by commenting on Twitter regarding the comments you’ve received.
Most importantly when using Twitter you want to make sure that is not just a means by which you promote your blog posts, but that you are also engaging in the virtual water cooler conversation with others. The more engaging and enjoyable you are to be around on Twitter itself the more likely those you visit with there will venture over to your blog to consume even more of your thoughts and opinions.
Another good idea is to always repay the favor. So you get visitors to your blog from Twitter, they leave comments, be sure to go and visit their blogs and do the same or reply when they too post links to their blog posts on Twitter.
Twitter can be a great place to get your thoughts out there and to drive traffic to your blog if you do it right.
Exert effort at customizing your Twitter profile by providing it with your picture. A lot of people don’t like to send tweets to faceless twitterers. Include in the profile your blog URL and description. Most of twitterers check profile before they decide to follow you or not.
Twitter being a form of word of mouth viral advertising that generates the traffic.
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all your blogs are worth reading, especially this one. I always wondered how to optimize my twitter account for getting traffic
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good article! keep us posted with more
Great article about Twitter. I don’t think many webmasters realizes how much traffic you can get from Twitter if you just use it the right way, exactly as you mention above. Samir, thanks again for the great article!
Nice article very informative
. Keep it up.