Twitter is not just for fun but can also be used much like other social networking media to gain more traffic.
Like other social networks, millions of people use Twitter. It is a micro-universe of potential visitors just waiting to be tapped. The question is how to get them to take a look at you.
First of all, sign up for an account. You can’t find the right people unless you get in the game. Don’t worry about creating a business account at this point. You are only concerned with connecting with people now.
Next, get involved. Read other people’s tweets; join as a follower for popular tweeters. You can use Twitter applications to track the tweets of others and also do keyword searches for interesting tweets. Comment on current tweets and get a feel for how it works and who everyone is following.
The best thing about Twitter is that it works in real time from your PC. You can ask questions to find out any type of information. If you are looking for followers (Twitter friends) interested in gardening (if that is what your blog is about), pose the question in a tweet and wait for responses. You’ll be surprised what you hear back.
Posing questions is one way to find suitable traffic for your blog. You want more visitors but the kind of visitors who are likely to come back and buy from you if you are selling a product. It is a research tool that returns immediate results.
More advice…
There are a few things to observe. In your tweets, use keywords. It might be hard with so few characters, but you want to include searchable words that anyone will enter into a Twitter search engine to find your tweets.
Don’t be a spammer. If your tweets always include links to your blog or your work on other sites, people will get the idea that you are not there to connect but just to fill the site with links. Use the site to find others with similar business interests or to pose interesting views and get feedback. You can link to your blog when appropriate but don’t overdo it or people will get that fishy feeling about you.
It takes time to build up a following of followers on Twitter just like any other social networking site. The plus with Twitter is that the results are more immediate that with other social sites. Find the targeted visitors you are after with a few questions and then join in the twittering to build a rapport that translates into more traffic.
P.S. Be sure to follow Girly Blog Designz on Twitter!
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Great post Heather. There’s a few people that I follow that have been really super spammy lately and it’s getting to the point that I’m ready to unfollow them because it’s annoying the heck out of me!
You know I’ve never thought about using keywords in my tweets…hmmm I’ll have to keep that in mind!
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Another quick tip – in my opinion this is 10x more annoying than any spammer – don’t tweet constantly about nothingness. Nothing is more annoying than sifting through stream of consciousness posts to get the odd useful link or question.
And remember to follow your followers. If you have a thousand followers but you’re only following four, what does that say about how much you care about other people’s opinions? Remember Hilary and Obama? Need I say more?
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