Golden Rule 4: How To Use Twitter To Get Targeted Traffic To Your Blog And Provide Valuable Targeted Content For Your Followers

Here are some fantastic ways how you can use Twitter as a blogger that you should consider if you arenot already doing so to help you get hoards of traffic, ideas for your niche and connecting with yourfollowers …
Getting targeted traffic to your blog posts… With a simple post to Twitter, you can have lots of readerscome to your blog. Even though blog feeds do the same thing, you can
often find new readers on Twitter or remind current readers to re-visit your blog.
Here is another fantastic strategy you can use with Aweber to send tweets any time you send out abroadcast to one of your regular subscriber list. This is really great primarily when you link up yourFacebook and your Twitter account.
Now anytime you send out a broadcast to your lists in Aweber, you can also do an update
to twitter and Facebook all with just one click.
Question: “How do you set up Twitter to send a confirmation message to a follower in their email inboxwhen this person has agreed to follow you? Sometimes I follow people
on Twitter, and when I check my inbox, I find a message thanking me to follow them,
and in this message there’s a link to their squeeze page or what ever the product they are selling”?
Answer: People use services like http://www.socialtoo.com to do those automated “thank you forfollowing me, visit my squeeze page“ messages.
NOTE: There is much more detail on how to set up auto mated messages within this
report in the resources and tools section and exactly how your message should read…
Here are some insider tricks to build much more targeted traffic that you would be wise
to follow.
Step #1 Take note that every “tweet“ is 140 characters and it is turned into its own html webpage. Youcan view any of your individual tweets by clicking on the time stamp that immediately follows yourmessage and it will bring up the page that has only your tweet and you can simply copy your URL.
The trick is to social bookmark your targeted tweets and by adding keyword rich words including ‘longtail keywords’ in at the beginning of your tweet will help and include a http:// link then grab theindividual tweet url.
Step #2 The next step is to follow your social bookmarking strategies and tactics that you use for your blogposts or link to them from inside your blog post- building backlinks to your main profile page as well.
It’s wise to keep in mind that your twitter profile has its own RSS feed and you can do lot’s of greatthings with RSS feeds to build viral traffic.
Another good idea is that it’s wise to link to your main profile page URL in your other social sites, newsletters, blog posts, squidoo lens to help build viral traffic. Some Twitter marketers are now evengetting redirect urls such as twitteryourname.com and directing people to their Twitter profile page and over time with some link building can generate much more targeted traffic.
Another fantastic site and tool for doing research is a search site called http://www.summize.com whereyou can enter a few keywords in your niche or popular names …
You can also follow people in any niche and see how they are using Twitter, connect with them byreplying and starting a conversation or adding to something interesting.
With http://www.summize.com it will quickly help you locate any likeminded marketers and then you caneasily see who they are following and who is also following them.
Connecting with your followers is key… When you blog, you‘re speaking to your readership from adistance. You write your post, edit it and then post it. During all of these activities, you‘re removedfrom your audience. But when you use Twitter to
communicate, it becomes a conversation. You can show more of your personality to your followers andtruly communicate with them on a different level. This can get them more interested in you and yourblog, which will build more traffic over time.
Building your brand can be a BOON!… In order to stand out amidst the large amount of blogs and Twitteraccounts online, you need to develop a persona for people to connect to and identify with. You canaccomplish this through your blog, but you can further your branding by using a Twitter account.
You need to figure out what makes you special and unique in your niche and then extend thesedifferences between you and others in you Twitter posts. Decide what your persona or approach is andthen make sure your Twitter posts reflect that.
Researching niches and markets… With Twitter, your target market can be at your be atyour fingertips. You can spy on their interests, ask them about their needs andautomatically get ideas for your blog posts. You provide exactly what your followers arelooking for.