Get More Traffic on Your Web-page With Twitter

March 10, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Link Building 

The internet is filled with many different social media sites, and you’ll find new sites popping up all the time. Twitter is only one of many. Similar to all the other social media websites, it is a community where “friends” can let each other know what is going on in their lives and what they are doing. Post your immediate thoughts, announce your presence at a local event, tell the world what you think of current happening.

Using Twitter you can very easily, without much effort start to drive targeted traffic to your website by posting short messages called Tweets all day, 24/7. You can also choose to log into Twitter on your Blackberry or mobile phone, making it that much easier to attract more visitors to your website. Whether you have a blog or own your site, just about everyone is vying for traffic to their web property. People like to follow blogs or websites when they continually have progress updates. It’s as simple as signing up for Twitter and posting messages. There are no restrictions on how you can employ this mighty service for the purpose of marketing. For instance, you can use it to easily and effectively market your own service or product or someone else’s, tell everyone about a a special event your company is having, or anything else.

Since Twitter has gotten hugely popular it can be a wonderful traffic generator. You simply need to jump on its wagon, and use its popularity for the purpose of your marketing. However, there are social protocols involved and you’ll have to follow them if you want to succeed.

You obviously have to be an active part of the Twitter community. Yes, you have to make a contribution to your fellow Tweeters. If your sole use of Twitter is for posting your website updates you’ll earn the reputation of a spammer. You won’t be appreciated or liked by the community in any way and what could be worse than prospects avoiding you. The most effective way to use Twitter is to follow the other people in your target market, and you will soon see they will follow you. More followers mean more attention, and more potential traffic to your website. You can generate traffic using Twitter, but only if you are speaking to those that think similarly to the way you do. You need to keep active, read other people’s tweets, and respond to them. It’s all about being involved like I said. When you are an active participant on Twitter, others will read and respond to your posts as well. Twitter has a valuable feature where your profile can be viewed by the followers of people who reply to your posts. This really helps to expand your market, and gives you an extended reach to a larger audience. So, you can see the necessity in making sure you post replies on other people’s tweets, to remain active.

You can also set things up to be automated, using sites like Twitterfeed to broadcast your website’s RSS feed to your Twitter page. and it will automatically tweet your every update. This is a good method to make sure your updates are regularly posted. However, it is important to keep thinks slow, or people may view you as a spammer, who no one wants anything to do with. Try to mix some more organic tweets with your feed updates. Twitter can provide a windfall for marketers who need solid focused traffic that easily converts to sales. But it does take some time and effort to really see big results with it. In the end, if you are regular in your updating and manual posting, you will start to see your account grow with followers, which can drive traffic to your website.

You can generate a substantial amount of traffic and have Twitter working in your favor, if you are willing to put in the work necessary to make this happen. You need to make sure that your tweets are engaging enough to hold the interest of your followers and make you into an expert in their mind, that way they will read your tweets more regularly. This gives your followers a good enough reason to click on your link and not ignore it. It’s all about keeping the junk away and having good information to supply constantly. Just the way you need to give respect to your email subscribers, you need to give respect to your Twitter followers. Not only will they have more confidence in you and feel comfortable visiting your site, they will also be willing to tell their friends about you. The whole process slow and steady builds a loyal following and the traffic that you want. Any internet marketer will tell you that building a customer base takes time. As you learn how to make those brief, effective, yet engaging tweets and begin to see the results, you will find yourself looking forward to sending out tweets every day.

After you’ve developed a reputable Twitter account, it’s easy to promote stuff with it. For example, I just tweeted about how much I like using Unique Article Wizard, and several people clicked my link and bought the product. So definitely start building your Twitter rep right away.