15 Quick Twitter Traffic Tips

Twitter has taken the blogging community by storm.  A lot of practical tips are provided to potential and active twitter users or twitterers. This article has generated a list of 15 top pick tips that are essential in increasing twitter traffic to your blog.

BE A BRANDED TWITTERER, EXPRESS YOUR IMAGE

TIP #1

Exert effort at customizing your Twitter profile by providing it with your picture. A lot of people don’t like to send tweets to faceless twitterers. Include in the profile your blog URL and description. Most of twitterers check profile before they decide to follow you or not. The look of your Twitter account plays a major role. Here are some of the well designed Twitter profiles, this might just give an idea to other users (of course the profile look is just one factor that affects the number of followers you get but there are more)

http://twitter.com/#!/stephenfry

http://twitter.com/#!/939design

http://twitter.com/#!/arsenalfans

TIP #2

Generate interest and strong and positive impression by treating your tweets as your article headline. You should also avoid making your background look like some sort of an advertisement as it will definitely turn people off. You can download a free background for your twitter account by clicking on the below link but there are many other sites that offer free backgrounds. 

Twitter Backgrounds

TIP #3

Monitor everything that is happening within your blog field and exert effort to be perceived as an expert twitterer on a subject related to your blog. Link to quality resources and people will surely look at you as an authority on whatever interest you are espousing in your blog.

PUT VALUE TO YOUR TWEETS

TIP #4

You should work hard to make each tweet interesting and worth reading to your target audience. Put your best foot, or rather, tweet forward and surely your followers will decide to click on and check out your profile and your blog.

TIP #5

Make your tweets an attention grabber by writing things which are interesting to the community. Be on the look out for hot topics and be ready to post the article in your blog. Members of the twitter community will be truly interested with you and what you have to say. They will soon drop by your site or blog once you have announced to the community what you have written.

TIP #6

Interesting people are great followers of other interesting people. In the twitter community you have to follow people whom you think are interesting. However, don’t follow people only because everyone else is following them.

BE A FRIENDLY TWITTERER AND EXPRESS IT

TIP #7

You should be helpful, useful and friendly member of the community. Be gracious and thank people when they follow you on twitter with a direct message. You should utilize your expertise to help fellow twitters find solutions to their requests and questions.

TIP #8

Do not oversell your blog and your blog articles. Being a hard sell will not bring good to you, your profile and your blog

TIP #9

You should restrain yourself from tweeting to much as many twitterers might make your followers unfollow you. Three tweets a day would just work out fine. You can use TweetStats to learn more and analyze your tweets. However, if you can not put a cap on your tweets, it is essential that use Qwitter to get updates when someone stops following you.

TIP #10

You can use TweetBurner in order to shorten the URLs you intend to include in your tweets. Most tweets are based on a 140 characters. This will save you valuable space for your message. You can also track the number of clicks your tweets get through the TweetBurner.

MAKE OTHER TWITTERERS FIND AND LOOK FOR YOU

TIP #11

You must work hard to get your Twitter link out to where people can find you. This means adding it to your e-mail signature file, in forum post, on your site, on your blog sidebar, in article resource boxes, and so on. People will only follow you if they find you credible.

TIP #12
Do not try to follow everybody that follows you. Be selective of who you follow and work within your established niche, interests and hobbies.