Have you ever wondered what could have possible gone wrong in your planning due to which there is hardly any traffic on your blog? You might be a king in content quality and its management but what good will this do if there is no kingdom to prove your supremacy.
The answer to all questions related to traffic on blogs, marketing your blog and seeking for a community dedicated to any help related to blogs is Twitter. Though it is simply a micro-blogging platform accompanied with numerous tools, plug-ins and support applications, yet its storming rage and popularity is unmatched. It has become the trend setter in suggesting innovative ways to increase blog readership.
Let us discuss all possible ways to market your blog using Twitter, some unique advantages of Twitter and best practices from a user’s perspective to get the most out of this wonderful gift.
- Invite more people.
- Complete your profile and have a clickable link on it.
It is very important to understand the dynamics of Twitter. As an enthusiastic blog-owner there are few tips you should keep in mind.
- Always make useful posts and not spam ones to sustain the interest of your followers.
- Follow other users on Twitter.
- Always engage in good conversations followed by summarized re-tweets (replies).
- Become an engaging member of Twitter Community to make your presence felt.
- Keep building an efficient audience by following your friend’s followers who in return start following you.
- Always include ‘Follow Me’ link with every informative post and invite others to follow you. The link can be added in signatures of mails and forums.
- Keep a check on follower-following ratio.
These tips would surely help you generate a good traffic.
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The follower/following ratio is key. I immediately have doubts about people when I see their numbers having huge numbers of “following.” It shows they don’t care about their followers and instead, just try and get more people to follow them.
It’s crucial to maintain discussions and respond intelligently to others. People will check out the pages you send them as long as you carry weight with your posts.
Yes, I agree, the most important blogging tip is to keep up with useful and actual interesting posts.
I haven’t joined twitter yet, but this post would become handy when I join them
After reading so much about Twitter from successful bloggers, I’ve decided to give it a try. If it works, I’ll blog positively about it.
How much time should you spend on Twitter vs time spend on your blog?
Sometimes, I wonder about Twitter etiquette. People don’t necessarily mind when the more popular twitter celebrities don’t follow you back, so is it entirely necessary?
You’re giving some great advice here. Although Twitter has had break though success, I don’t think most bloggers don’t know how to use it to there advantage. This could be a great stepping stone for them though.
I have been working hard at the twitter adventure but I find it is like everything else, it requires time. I have a small following of about 200 but it seems to grow daily by one or two. Just got to keep at it I suppose. The Silent Majority