5 Quick Steps to Getting Traffic to Your Site From Twitter

Twitter is a powerful tool. A lot of people I have said this to, laugh and tell me that Twitter is silly, and I will admit that when I first signed up to use the service, I didn’t quite understand why it had become so popular. But here’s the cold, hard, truth: it is popular. People use Twitter and I can safely now say that I get the vast majority of my web site traffic and newsletter subscribers from Twitter. So, love it or hate it, if you’re serious about your business, use it. Here’s how to get some quick, free traffic from Twitter:

1. Set yourself up an account and brand it. Find a Twitter background generator if you don’t know how to use a graphics program to design your own, and make sure all the pertinent info is there: the gist of what you do, your web site URL, your phone number, email address, name and maybe even a picture of you. Adjust the colors of your profile page to suit your background image, and fill out the fields in your profile, including URL and bio.

2. Sign up for Socialoomph.com and add your Twitter account under Social Accounts. As you set up your Twitter acount to use Socialoomph.com, make sure you enable Auto Welcome and include your URL in the welcome message you send out. You can choose whether or not you want to auto follow people who follow you, however, I personally don’t as I prefer to choose who I see in stream of updates. Do not select Vet Followers, and do select Auto-unfollow. An @ Replies digest is up to you. Once this is set up and running, it will send a direct message to each new follower containing what you wrote and sending them to your web site.

3. Go out and look for like-minded tweeters. Search Twitter for keywords that relate to what you do, what your tweets are about and what you are interested in. List these people in different lists of your choosing and follow these people as well. Answer any questions you know the answers to.

4. Utilize Refollow.com to search for more users and mass-follow them, but be sure to limit your new follows to less than 100 per day and be picky about who you follow and how fast you add to your following list, as you don’t want to send up any red flags at Twitter or end up on everyone’s blocked list.

5. Monitor your @ replies and correspond with those who are talking to you. Just click, in your Twitter sidebar, the link with an @ symbol and your Twitter user name before it. Replying to these is as easy as mousing over the tweet and seeing the reply button appear. Click that and you should be able to reply using your Tweet field at the top of the Twitter page.

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