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More Traffic Tips Using Twitter

Getting traffic to your blog posts:

 With a simple post to Twitter, you can have lots of readers come to your blog.

Even though blog feeds do the same thing, you can often find new readers on Twitter or remind current readers to re-visit your blog or a specific article.

What to tweet about

• Be useful and helpful.
• Not every tweet has to be about “you”.
• Take time to tweet about others.
• Be a helpful part of the community.

 Listen and respond to your followers

• Try to help them out.
• You can get great feedback using tweets.
• You can get ideas for info products and affiliate products from the feedback you receive from your followers.

Please NO spam!

• If all you do is send out tweets that scream, “Buy from me! Buy from me!” you will quickly lose followers.
• These are the people I quickly unfollow and some of them I block

What forms of spam irritate you?

Tips On Directing Traffic to Your Blog or Website Using Twitter

Twitter is one of the social networking websites. It’s essentially a micro blogging tool using 140 characters http//www.Twitter.com. Twitter is an incredibly fast way to get more traffic to your blog or website while also building relationships.

• You will want to portray your status as an “authority” in your area of expertise.
• Mix your posts or “tweets” up with industry-relevant links in addition to your personal activities, opinions, quotes and helpful tips.
• When you can have custom graphic background designed that includes your other social network sites.
• Here’s a brief article from Entrepreneur about branding your business http://bit.ly/13zlvP  

Follow people

• All this means is that you sign up to receive their messages and they will recieve yours.
•  If you follow them, they will most likely follow you.
•  This is an important step in order to acquire followers.

 Two Ways to follow people

• You can use the search feature or find people right from your Twitter profile 
• You can use the twitter yellow book known as Twellow http://www.twellow.com

Be Social

• Ask and answer questions
• Give value to your community. You don’t have to say anything profound – just relevant.
• Post and answer surveys: You can increase your relationship with your followers by asking questions. Ask people for advice, what they think of the latest news story or their opinion on a topic.
• Retweet others view this blog post for tips on re-tweeting http://bit.ly/oj6RT.

Utilize direct messages

• This is the way to send a private message to someone that no one else can see.
• You’ll also receive messages from others and be notified via e-mail when someone direct messages you.
• Another great way to connect personally with people

Use Links

• Post links as a natural part of the conversation.
• Use links properly. Don’t send a direct link to your product.
• Send a link to your blog or a general informational website.

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What are some ways you use twitter to drive traffic to your site?