Hello Everyone, I am new to the site & was hoping to receive some pointers. I have just created a twitter account for my new student loan website. I only have 11 followers thus far, despite following close to 100 people. I feel Twitter can be a great asset to me in getting my website to the top of Google & other search engines, resulting in more traffic. But how do you use Twitter to your advantage? Any time I try looking to find out how to get more Twitter followers I find a website promising the world & failing to deliver.
You can follow these 7 Simple Tips To Drive Twitter Traffic To Your Site Also, don't expect the great results overnight, you must work hard constantly to be in good position to get high twitter traffic.
A good trick to get targeted twitter followers is follow the people that follow your rivals, this makes sure they are interested is your project. Also their are many Facebook pages were people share twitter followers, you follow them and they follow you. You should also find student forums and ask people their to follow you.
You have asked how to make Twitter more effective for you so I'm answering the original question. Since you have very few followers still, this advice may be premature but hang on to it, it's good. When you have some 500-1,000 followers connect your Website's feed to your Twitter account. It helps me a lot.......
What is more important for the gain of followers: your twitter activity or your site? Are there popular personalities without their own sites?
Follow the right peope in your niche. Write good tweets and useful ones. Promote your twitter profile.
You want to get to the top of Google so Im assuming you're also using SEO to help you. With regard to Twitter here are a few tips: Identify your target audience and follow them. If they don't follow you back you can still talk to them or retweet their content. This can sometimes result in people following you back. Provide useful content based on what your target audience wants to know/read. Mix it up and don't just tweet the same stuff. Keep it interesting and informative. Use a url shortener (eg bit.ly) to see which of your links are being clicked on. Measure your progress regularly and tweak your content if necessary. It takes time to build a following and don't bother with getting 100s of followers in one go. Its a quick fix which isn't going to provide the quality following you need. There are lots of tools out there to help you with tweeting, monitoring and measurement. The ones I'd recommend off the top of my head are Tweetdeck, Socialoomph and Tweetstats.