Use Twitter To Get Instant And Ongoing Traffic

In my recent post on how to increase twitter followers, I concentrated on how you can make money directly from your twitter account. As most people realise, you can also use twitter to drive traffic directly to your website, however, unless you have a very viral tweet, you won’t get as much benefit from this unless you have a large and loyal twitter following.

Many people I speak to are still struggling to get even one hundred people to visit their sites each day, while others can’t get more than a few thousand, despite having good, regular content. If done correctly, twitter can help increase your site visitors, both immediately and in the longer term; I still get traffic from old tweets.

The Basics Of Driving Traffic With Twitter

• One important caveat with using twitter to drive traffic is, do not spam. If all your tweets are nothing more then links to your own sites, people will get sick of them pretty soon and not bother visiting, so make sure you include other topics and links in your tweets.
• Do not direct message people with spam (your links). I get so many of these that I nearly have complete DM blindness. My favourite is people sending me links on how to get massive amounts of twitter followers, when they have fewer then 300 themselves.
• The time of day you post your tweet is important, especially if you are not based in the US and want to tap into that audience. It is no good tweeting at 3am US time, when there are going to be very few people online. To over come this problem, you can use a tool that allows you to schedule tweets at specific times. You can either use a tool like Tweetadder that provides all the twitter sentimentality you need, or use a browser based application like Hootsuite to schedule tweets for a lter date and time.
• Join in the conversation and respond to tweets.
• Retweet others tweets if you find them valuable, or interesting. It is like link love, the more you give, the more you are likely to get returned.
• Analyse your tweets so you can see what was popular and what worked to bring in visitors. You need to know what is effective, in order to refine your tweets and also as a way of learning what your potential audience finds interesting. To do this, I use the tools above for twitter and Perfromance Metrics for analysing my website statistics and visitors. This allows me to see a realtime live of view of visitors on my sites and is a really great tool to have; I’ll write more about it in a later post.

Remember, keep your tweets interesting and regular and gain the benfits with increased traffic. Not only will you gain instant eyes on your site, but you also have the potential to gain more long term visitors.

Best Way To Increase Your Twitter Followers

It is just over six months since I wrote my post on Free Twitter Tools To Grow Your Followers and it is time for an update.

Quite a lot has changed since that post, both with Twitter and with the tools you can use to add followers. Most of the tools and techniques either no longer work, or have had restrictions placed upon them that greatly reduce their effectiveness by removing the bulk follow and bulk unfollow features, requiring much more time and effort on your part to grow your list.

Why You Should Grow Your List

As of January 2010, ComScore put Twitter.com traffic at 75 million people, 11 times as many as it had at the start of 2009. This number is only for twitter users on twitter.com. It is estimated that fewer than 50% of twitter usage is through the site, so the true number of twitter users may be closer to 150 million.

That’s a lot of users, but what does it mean for you and why should you try to increase your number of followers? No matter what your business is, the answer can be summed up with MBM, marketing, branding and money. This post will focus primarily on how to increase your twitter followers with the intent of generating income.

If you are unsure of the potential for making money on Twitter, you need look no further than Jeremy Schoemaker who reports making $15,000 from advertisers through Ad.ly and Spnsored Tweets in October and his twitter earnings keep rising, now getting $5000 for a single tweet.

While Jeremy has a profile that enables him to get such high prices, the average person can also make hundreds, or even thousands of extra dollars by simply tweeting. However, unless you are a Jeremy Shoemaker, you won’t generate any large advertiser income unless you have a large group of followers, the higher the better; if you can engage directly with an active group, you will increase your earning potential enormously.

How To Increase Your Followers Quickly

As I said in my previous post, getting more followers is not difficult, you simply need to follow more people yourself. The problem with this is that, Twitter has limits on the number of people you can follow each day and adding a couple of hundred people manually takes time, a lot of time, even more if you are looking to add people with particular interests. Once you begin adding a couple of thousand people each day, you really have no option, you have to automate the process.

There are still a few free ways to gain extra followers, but most of the services and tools are limited and/or scammy. There is one tool that stands head and shoulders above all the others out there.

Tweet adder The Best Tool For Getting Followers

Out of all the methods I have tested, Tweet adder is simply the best tool for automating your twitter activities and the ultimate tool for quickly growing your twitter followers.

Tweet adder has every feature you could want to fully automate your twitter activities, including:

• Multiple Twitter account management
• Fully auto follow and auto unfollow
• Ability to unfollow ALL except your VIP SAFELIST
• Keep track of people you have unfollowed so that you do not re-follow them.
• Auto Follow Twitter Users — Fully Control Twitter following with Follower Ratio, Max # of follows per day
• Auto Follow Stop Feature : Automatically stops when Twitter follow limits are reached
• Auto Unfollow Twitter Users: Unfollow by #, follower to follow ratios, users who do not follow back with time frames
• Random Time Delay Settings- You choose what time intervals between follows, unfollows, tweets, and direct messages
• Safe VIP List: Create a list of twitter users to never unfollow
• Full Twitter Stats and graphical historical viewing
• Automated Tweet Posting and Direct Messaging
• And much more

Tweet adder is unparalleled for rapidly growing your twitter followers; the sooner you start to grow your followers list, the better your chances of increasing yoru earnings.