How to Drive More Traffic from Twitter

February 1st, 2010 → 1:41 am @ Lilium

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Twitter is one of the most popular social-networking websites on the internet. It can be a very useful service to drive traffic to your website or a blog. Of course, you can do that completely for free, Twitter is a free service!

Every now and then we see that Twitter with other popular social-networking sites like Facebook advertise on the most influential commercial TV channels like CNN, BBC and much much more. Most popular TV companies have their own Twitter and Facebook accounts for sure!

Quality before Quantity

You probably think that if you have more followers, you would get more traffic from your Twitter account… right? Well, that is not quite a true!

It is better to have more quality visitors (real followers) than many not-quality followers (usually spammers). This is a very popular service which is available freely for anyone! It is a great tool that spammers can use – and they use it a lot!

So, you should follow only people you like! If you like their tweets, their style or if they are your friends you can follow them! Only this way would prevent spammers to spam you with unnecessary messages and status updates you don’t want to see!

Getting Traffic to your Website

When you build up a quality followers list, you are ready to promote your website. You can promote it anyhow you want! Anytime and virtually from anywhere!

There are some articles I’ve write about a Twitter tools and services you can use to effectively promote, publish and connect with your account on this popular service:

You should also read which are the reasons why to use a Twitter if you’re a Blogger. This article is specially oriented to a bloggers and may find more information about this topic.

Use Twitter Properly

To get more traffic to your website or a blog, you would need to use Twitter properly. By that I mean you should use it the way it is mentioned!

This does not mean you have to spend hours and hours to check our your timeline, all you need to do is to be more active and one of the most important things – stay in connection with your followers and people you follow!

This way you would get more potential followers. People like to see that you are active on your account. Share your mind, join in the conversation and simply stay in touch with your followers – this is one of the most important factors to get more quality visitors to your site for sure!

Write Something About Twitter

Twitters like to share interesting articles about their favorite service. One of the most effective ways to get your published article out is to promote it to the related audience!

Think about it, if you write something interesting about Twitter and then publish that article as your status – your followers (active Twitter users) will probably share this article on their own account. Giving you more visitors from multiple accounts, which can drastically boost your traffic.

If you search a bit on this blog, you will find many posts related to Twitter. If you open these articles, you will see they are tweeted more than any other article which is not related to this popular micro-blogging service.

This way you can see how powerful is something when you present it to the targeted audience!

Spamming is No Way

Previously, I have had an I Follow You – You Follow Me policy on my Twitter account. During that time, I have had almost 2x more followers to my twitter account.

The main reason I have disabled this policy is – SPAM! There are a lot of spammers which are trying to tell, sell and present something you DO NOT CARE about. I really hate spamming in general and I think I have done just the right thing for my account.

This way I have loose a lot of followers, but what did I get? I get more quality followers which follow me because they like me, my tweets or just my website! Also, I follow people I really want to. This way working on my account is much easier and more productive for sure!

If you are spamming your followers, which are your potential loyal visitors and readers, you would get less followers from day to day. People know how to recognize these spammers – and they know how to stop them… in most cases!