Hi I am new here, I guess I could start off with something that has done wonders for my new website. It is a little something called twitter.com. About a month ago I got my website up, since then I have been getting thousands of hits. If you do not know, twitter is a social website and what I did was, Joined of course, started following people, setup my website to automatically cross post every new topic to twitter and in the topic it links back to my website and topic. Now I look in my stats for every topic posted and I already get about 20 hits in the first minute.. The limits are endless it just depends on how much time you want to spend adding people on twitter, which is too easy.. If you already know about using twitter then this topic isn't for you, just figured I would share.
How did you done this with your website "setup my website to automatically cross post every new topic to twitter and in the topic it links back to my website and topic" thanks in advance
Well it depends on what you want to auto cross post? There are hacks, mods, and plugins for all sorts of stuff to do so. I use the word press plugin for it. Let me know and I will see what I can do for ya.
The effectiveness of using Twitter is directly related to the number of followers you have. If nobody is following you, nobody's getting the links. Just some FYI for those who aren't familiar with it.
I have 1280 followers roughly, It took me about 45 minutes, I added 2000 people, got followed by 1280 in return. And when you get more followers people will follow you from them. It is pretty neat. And I am about a month new to twitter.
Adding people is one thing, getting targetted people to follow back is another. If you go all out and get tons you could use something like Twittad to monetize it.
Twitter is pretty effective for traffic but if you start spamming many will unfollow. Also noticed many who do mass spamming trying to get people to follow them in return have been getting kicked off lately as well as many people using programs to follow and get followed in return then going back and unfollowing everyone. Just do things legit and build it up.
It is every easy to add Twitter followers if one will focus on it. However, the question is how will you convert your followers into customers? All users wants to follow because they also want to be followed. Unfortunately, I now see Twitter as a Follow-exchange site rather than a viral marketing strategy. Twitter is a social site which means most of its members are also looking for customers, just like you.
Nice. And the guy above me is right, if you spam up the board people will unfollow you. Depending on who your followers are you might want to manually add certain topics on there with links. Just look at your content, make sure it is interesting enough for someone to stay on your site and browse around and maybe join. Be sure to be active on twitter, talk to your followers, don't just spam it up. Now for instance, You can look on your web stats or which ever program you or your host uses to see your hits and where they come from and all of that good stuff and see which topics and categories are most popular and that will give you a better idea on what to write about. Another good way I found is to offer free things or have contests. That has kept people around for me. But like I said, just don't spam your stuff to hell, I hate spammers, you hate spammers, so does every one else. Put yourself in the reader/viewers place.
Hi @therantandrave, Good work! You might like to check out these resources: http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/...-to-Build-a-Twitter-Account-Step-by-Step.aspx http://twitter.grader.com http://www.inbound-marketing-blog.com/2009/03/7-steps-to-1st-level-of-twitter.html How did you find 2000 people to follow? Just from the public timeline?
Well when I did it, I had just registered with twitter and got it all set up and was still getting a feel for it. I just started finding people to add then I went through people who had thousands of followers and just added them through their followers page and did so for about 45 minutes. But you are welcome, if anyone has any other GOOD idea's for promoting and getting traffic please send me a private message and let me know. Also I am looking to link up or start an affiliation network if anyone would be interested?
Interesting..Ive been signed up for a week now, less then 20 followers. if you want to follow, then look in my sig, feel free. looking for buddies
As far as twitter goes, if you can search by city or tag or just pick on someone that's a figure that you share a commonality with, like say .... Rush Limbaugh, you know off the bat that the followers and yourself will have something in common. So follow all of them you possibly can. then when they follow you, they'll agree with your tweets. and your followers will grow from seeing your tweets.
hello guys you are right, twitter is a very nice website which help you getting more traffic to your page