I'd like to ask you guys for advice. I have used Twitter fairly effective to date. I get about 40% of the entry traffic to my site now from Twitter and the quality seem fairly good. Anyway, my strategy for far has been to only follow twitterers that have less than about 1,000 followers and have a respectable profile, i.e. they don't seem to be "spammers" and "marketing hypesters". Now my follower growth has been slow, but I feel like this way I get higher quality followers. What good does it do to get a follower that has 10,000 followers him or herself, for example? This person will never follow me, retweet me, etc. So my question is really this: does my slow-growth-in-gaining-followers strategy make sense? Do you guys sometimes follow people with over 1,000 followers themselves? If so, do you think it benefits you?
It only benefits you in a way that you get an exposure to 1000 prospect may be any of his followers is very much interested in your niche thats the only thing which sometime attract me to follow some one more then 1000 followers. And usually people do follow you if you follow them its a normal phenomena.
Tell me more. How would you get exposure to his followers? Where would they ever see your profile or your posts? I don't understand that part...
Hi. I don't want you to think I'm hijacking your thread but Twitter is something I'm considering at the moment and I'm keen to get as much info as possible from as many different users as I can. 40% of your traffic from Twitter is awesome but can I ask what percentage of your sales comes from this avenue? I'm just trying to get an idea of whether I should dedicate the time I need to if I'm going to use Twitter properly. Thanks in advance. Steve.
As a rule, I dump people that don't follow me back (unless I specifically want to follow what information they post), have dead profiles (haven't updated in weeks) , or have a lopsided number of people they are following or that follow them, compared to how many updates that actually have......If they have 5k followers, but have only updated 12 times...they are a waste of your marketing time...they are just building followers. Most people on Twitter covet followers as if it is a popularity contest. A common tactic is to follow people who are already following others who have large numbers of followers, or in the same or similar niche. You can find who is following who in their profile where it says "followers" Marketing on Twitter is not about quantity, it's about quality. Anyone can build 2k followers, but building niche specific 2k followers that are regularly active and participate is another story.
A tactic I used to gain quality followers is to search the 'established' big business/institutions in my niche who have a lot of followers, but are only following a handful of people themselves. I then follow who they follow (only if it relates to my niche) and be hopeful the exposure generates more followers for me. It worked fairly well with about 60% of my requested followers since implementing the strategy being 'new' i.e. people I haven't been following. I'm also seeing a steady rate in requested followers - not as many as I'd hope, but steady nonetheless.
I dont know about Slow. you can go fast and still get quality followers. a person with 1,000 can be a quality follower i think. it only takes that person to see one of your tweets. and that person may be manually checking your profile everyday to see what you are dong
No problem. I'm a newbie at all of this btw. But here's my impression: I can tell whether someone enters my page from twitter based on the entry page itself as I know what pages I rank in the search engines and which ones I post on twitter, but it's not a perfect estimate as they are coming from tinyurl, which doesn't show up directly. Secondly, I believe the traffic from twitter to be a little worse quality in certain aspects: a slightly higher bounce rate and a little less pages/view. However, I believe this is because many of those that come over from twitter are already knowledgeable in the area my blog specializes in so they just come over for the specific info I post about. But there is an even better reason to get the twitter traffic: it seems to give you more cred with the search engines. I've noticed - and this is hypothetical but I believe I'm right - that the more traffic I get from twitter the more the search engines interpret it as that I am getting traffic from around the web. Twitter is a lot of work, actually, because quality posts take a lot of time. However, I have a theory that so far seems true: if you grow quality followers linearly, you will get a linear growth in hits on your site. Time will tell if that is true or not...
I actually am already doing a number of the things you mentioned, but you had some great reminders in there. So how much do you think Twitter has helped your site? I don't have any regrets so far, but you seem a little more hesitant?
Speaking for myself Whisper, It drives good solid traffic to my page, but actual conversion rates are very low
So what's your theory as to why? I'm curious if you align with my thinking... So it could help with CPM but not with CPC or CPA?
your strategy is rock hard. I have found from experience that 1000 targeted followers can earn me more than 10.000 untargeted followers.
Btw, I did some additional placement of adsense ads in the last couple of days and have seen a significant increase in my CPC revenue even though a big % of my traffic is directly and indirectly Twitter. Just trying to give encouragement to anyone else out there...
FWIW having a high quality follower with thousands of followers extends your reach if you converse with them with their username within the message. All of their followers will see your username and perhaps follow back.
I haven't found lower twitter follower accounts to always be the best. I think you have to experiment with accounts of all sizes.
hello! twitter is a lot to get a handle on. i use it a lot to find people in my neighborhood to market too in person. i communicate with local business via twellow and offer my services. so far in 2 weeks have had 2 clients in my area via twitter introductions