I'm sure most of you guys have heard of Twitter already, it's a social networking site and it's very simple. Honestly, I didn't know you could get pretty decent traffic from it. Has anyone else had a similar experience? I mean, most people network with other people, right? And if you have no idea what Twitter is or why you should at least check it out, read http://www.datmoney.com/2008/03/getting-noticed-with-twitter-and-get-some-good-traffic.html
getting traffic in one thing and getting converting traffic is another. some people here on the forum tried purchasing SU traffic which produced zero or hardly any result. what is your experience on Twitter traffic?
WhoJayBe, I read the article! Some great stuff. Haven't quite heard of Twitter. I plan on going through their video. Would you know of other resources that might assist me in learning about Twitter more? Thanks.
Twitter can work brilliantly as a PR tool. And it will get you very well-targeted traffic if you follow folks who have similar interests. I encourage everyone to try it.
Twitter seems useful if you want to network with people in similar fields to your own site. Not too sure about the traffic benefits though, has anybody had any good experiences with using it for a traffic source? Seems a bit pointless to add thousands of people if they aren't in the same area as you. Just makes it harder to convert your traffic.
Its probably the same as every site like this. Getting targetted traffic that will convert is extremely tuff.
I have just signed-up some days ago. I believe there's a huge potential in Twitter for bringing some good targeted traffic as long as you have enough friends (or followers) there. At least it's good for getting some opinions from other, like-minded people.
Well, here's the thing about Twitter... it is VERY good for targeted traffic and no, you do NOT need to add a few thousand people to your list. Honestly, you get to know a few big name people who already have a large readership and you basically get them to read your article. If they like your article, they will share your link with ALL of their followers. In my example, someone had a few hundred followers and they liked one of my articles "Never Underestimate Commenting" so they basically shouted out to their friends, "I'm reading this article" and put my link. And then I got a pretty decent amount of traffic just from that. On top of that, I was talking with Problogger, which has about 40,000+ subscribers and he asked his followers to link their best article of the month and he posted it on his site. So, essentially 40,000+ subscribers got to see the links. Another thing about Twitter... if you're actively talking with someone that has a large group of followers, more than likely those followers will check out your profile, check out your site AND follow you... But just to be cautious, don't spam all your followers with just links to your site because they don't like that too much...
interesting take on twitter... out here (so cal) we used twitter 24/7 to keep track of the wildfires when we were all separated from family. so web 2.0 actually does have some real world value at times.
Of course there are better sites but it all depends on how you use those sites to your benefit. For instance, Myspace is huge but I don't really use that to get traffic, though, I should, it's just not for me. I suppose everyone will end up with different experiences... we'll see what happens.