Promote with twitter
I shouldn't write this article because I haven't tweeted
in awhile, but that's because my iphone is broke, and that is how I
tweet. But I just have to tell you, (ya you the one that thinks
twitter is a waist of time) how great this micro blogging platform
can help your traffic.
When I'm tweeting regularly, I pick up another 10% -15% traffic spikes, and that's big, just think if I tweeted more than two times a day. As I've pointed out before, I don't do allot of SEO, marketing etc.. for my Socialgo networks but I do in my 9-5.
What is twitter?
Heck if I know. It's called micro-blogging and 95% of everything I read on there makes me feel like I've waisted 10 seconds of my life. But there are those jewels I pick up here and there, latest news, funny stuff, and business advice. If I ever have a question, or am making a decision in blockbuster, I can tweet it and get plenty of good advice.
Grab on to those last words "good advise," That is what you want to be known for on twitter. You want to be the come to guy or gal in your certain speciality (or what your network is about). If it's about hanging out and making friends, you should be hanging out and making friends on Twitter, then invite them over for a chat, or to check out a funny blog. If you have a fishing network, you should send out some good websites, news, videos on fishing regularly. Not like every tweet, that gets old, and everyone knows what your doing. It should be very natural.
This is what I do with littleprayerbox. I follow the 50-50 rule. %50 percent of my time on twitter is spent trying to be funny, responding to tweets and yak'n it up. The other %50 is spent either sending a relevant news link, a link to someone who needs prayer (on my site), or answering tweets that are in my network's speciality. So %50 chillin, and %50 promoting me and my site.
Tools of the trade
On the go - If you have a iphone there are several (12-15) free twitter apps. I love Twitterrific. It is very clean and easy to use but I also use Twinkle for m other twitter account. It's nice to have two apps so you don't have to login and out. You can also text your tweets from any mobile phone read about it here.
Desktop - On m desktop I use tweet Deck, I've tried others and this one is the mostest. You can split up your screen to view different information, like direct tweets to you, messages and even just your favorites (i think). This is a must because, it's like the pro-tweet tool.
Broadcast twitter on Socialgo - Now with the socialgo Layout manager it's easy to broadcast your tweets anywhere on your SG site. you can see my broadcast, how it works on littleprayerbox.com about page.
It's very easy to do this just go to twitter widgets here sign in select "other." grab the html code and drop it in one of your widget areas of the Layout Manager. You can see it working, and also styled with CSS on my prayer site. Now your network can keep up with your everyday minutia.
Twitter Marketing tools - There are many tools that help you manage your twitter account with more precision than twitter allows.
TweetLater - This is probably the most popular tool. there are others that do similar functions, but so far I haven't found one better. One of the best things you can do with this service is in it's title, you can schedule tweets. I do this sometimes, but don't do it too much, people catch on, and don't like it when your tweeting but not there. Another great thing you can do is have a email sent to you of tweets with any keyword you define. So for me, I have a daily email sent with every tweet with "socialgo" in it. This is a great way to find friends or a market directly targeted to your service or network. For your red snapper fishing site, you could have every tweet that has "red Snapper Fishing" Then add those people. The last thing I'm going to touch on is the auto friend. You can set it up that whenever someone ads you as a friend, you automatically add them and it sends them a email that you specify -- keep it chill, like "thanks for adding me, hope I don't bore you, here is my site if you want to know more about me (site)."I wouldn't suggest this for your personal twitter account. Only for biz.
Twitter blasts - If you have a Facebook or Linkden, myspace and others, you can funnel your tweets into the accounts. Facebook actually has a app for this, read about it here. But what I do mostly is use my BETA quub.com account which feeds into like 8 social networks, and it is a social network it's self, so I make friends there too.. very cool site. There is another one I've been playing with that also does this called this moment also in beta. This Moment is so very useful and fun. It trys to tie all your networks to gather, like you tube face book and on.. Havn't spent much time on there yet.
Social book mark your tweets - Click Ball is by far my favorite way to tweet. It is a social bookmarking site that lets you update your status both on twitter and clickball with a firefox plugin (get when signing up). What's cool about this, is you can easily send TINY URLs with just a click. When your just surfing around and you see something useful for your twitter community, just click the red ball. A form drops down, you write, "check out this funny monkey," it shrinks the URL and tweets it. I've made allot of friends at Clickball also because it's easy to find people with the same interests and follow them, on the other side some people like my bookmarks and can follow me on twitter just the same. There are other twitter plugins for firefox, but none this simple, and don't forget your getting two times the broadcast because you are broadcasting to click ball and twitter at the same time. This is great for link building. I send out a clickball with every blog I write on here (well I did, I'm behind)
Tweet your way to traffic
I hope that's a start for you. Twitter traffic is good targeted surfers, IF, ou don't just go adding willy nilly every body on this side of earth. Use tweet Later and pick your friends well. Have fun with it, make friends and contribute good content to your community. I (and others) can smell someone just out for my traffic a mile a way.
When I'm tweeting regularly, I pick up another 10% -15% traffic spikes, and that's big, just think if I tweeted more than two times a day. As I've pointed out before, I don't do allot of SEO, marketing etc.. for my Socialgo networks but I do in my 9-5.
What is twitter?
Heck if I know. It's called micro-blogging and 95% of everything I read on there makes me feel like I've waisted 10 seconds of my life. But there are those jewels I pick up here and there, latest news, funny stuff, and business advice. If I ever have a question, or am making a decision in blockbuster, I can tweet it and get plenty of good advice.
Grab on to those last words "good advise," That is what you want to be known for on twitter. You want to be the come to guy or gal in your certain speciality (or what your network is about). If it's about hanging out and making friends, you should be hanging out and making friends on Twitter, then invite them over for a chat, or to check out a funny blog. If you have a fishing network, you should send out some good websites, news, videos on fishing regularly. Not like every tweet, that gets old, and everyone knows what your doing. It should be very natural.
This is what I do with littleprayerbox. I follow the 50-50 rule. %50 percent of my time on twitter is spent trying to be funny, responding to tweets and yak'n it up. The other %50 is spent either sending a relevant news link, a link to someone who needs prayer (on my site), or answering tweets that are in my network's speciality. So %50 chillin, and %50 promoting me and my site.
Tools of the trade
On the go - If you have a iphone there are several (12-15) free twitter apps. I love Twitterrific. It is very clean and easy to use but I also use Twinkle for m other twitter account. It's nice to have two apps so you don't have to login and out. You can also text your tweets from any mobile phone read about it here.
Desktop - On m desktop I use tweet Deck, I've tried others and this one is the mostest. You can split up your screen to view different information, like direct tweets to you, messages and even just your favorites (i think). This is a must because, it's like the pro-tweet tool.
Broadcast twitter on Socialgo - Now with the socialgo Layout manager it's easy to broadcast your tweets anywhere on your SG site. you can see my broadcast, how it works on littleprayerbox.com about page.
It's very easy to do this just go to twitter widgets here sign in select "other." grab the html code and drop it in one of your widget areas of the Layout Manager. You can see it working, and also styled with CSS on my prayer site. Now your network can keep up with your everyday minutia.
Twitter Marketing tools - There are many tools that help you manage your twitter account with more precision than twitter allows.
TweetLater - This is probably the most popular tool. there are others that do similar functions, but so far I haven't found one better. One of the best things you can do with this service is in it's title, you can schedule tweets. I do this sometimes, but don't do it too much, people catch on, and don't like it when your tweeting but not there. Another great thing you can do is have a email sent to you of tweets with any keyword you define. So for me, I have a daily email sent with every tweet with "socialgo" in it. This is a great way to find friends or a market directly targeted to your service or network. For your red snapper fishing site, you could have every tweet that has "red Snapper Fishing" Then add those people. The last thing I'm going to touch on is the auto friend. You can set it up that whenever someone ads you as a friend, you automatically add them and it sends them a email that you specify -- keep it chill, like "thanks for adding me, hope I don't bore you, here is my site if you want to know more about me (site)."I wouldn't suggest this for your personal twitter account. Only for biz.
Twitter blasts - If you have a Facebook or Linkden, myspace and others, you can funnel your tweets into the accounts. Facebook actually has a app for this, read about it here. But what I do mostly is use my BETA quub.com account which feeds into like 8 social networks, and it is a social network it's self, so I make friends there too.. very cool site. There is another one I've been playing with that also does this called this moment also in beta. This Moment is so very useful and fun. It trys to tie all your networks to gather, like you tube face book and on.. Havn't spent much time on there yet.
Social book mark your tweets - Click Ball is by far my favorite way to tweet. It is a social bookmarking site that lets you update your status both on twitter and clickball with a firefox plugin (get when signing up). What's cool about this, is you can easily send TINY URLs with just a click. When your just surfing around and you see something useful for your twitter community, just click the red ball. A form drops down, you write, "check out this funny monkey," it shrinks the URL and tweets it. I've made allot of friends at Clickball also because it's easy to find people with the same interests and follow them, on the other side some people like my bookmarks and can follow me on twitter just the same. There are other twitter plugins for firefox, but none this simple, and don't forget your getting two times the broadcast because you are broadcasting to click ball and twitter at the same time. This is great for link building. I send out a clickball with every blog I write on here (well I did, I'm behind)
Tweet your way to traffic
I hope that's a start for you. Twitter traffic is good targeted surfers, IF, ou don't just go adding willy nilly every body on this side of earth. Use tweet Later and pick your friends well. Have fun with it, make friends and contribute good content to your community. I (and others) can smell someone just out for my traffic a mile a way.
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