Using Twitter For Instant Web Traffic

Today I am going to discuss a tutorial I wrote a while back about using twitter to receive traffic to your website or blog. This helps to build on ranking when you have a new site. We all know that SEO takes time and work everyday. It can take a while to actually see desired results. What you need is to start getting traffic right from the get go. What better method than using twitter?

The first step in this process is to have your website ready and published on the net. Now let’s drive some traffic.

Create a twitter account

You can easily set up a twitter account in 1 minute. Simply shoot on over to twitter.com and register for a new account. It is quick and free. I would suggest customizing your twitter with a background and site logo within the background.

Getting quick follows

Now we need to get you some followers. The most you can add is about 1500-2000 followers in a day. I would add about 1400 just to stay off of twitters radar. As more people add you back, you can add more followers. You can simply search for people that are related to your niche and manually add them or you can shoot on over to buzzom.com which let’s you easily target your audience by users who are related to your niche. Build up about 1400-2000 followers right from get go.

I want to stress the fact that you need to target followers who relate to your websites niche. You need to do so because, if you are adding people who are interested in let’s say for example “technology” and your website is about “myspace layouts”, nobody is really going to be interested in what you have to offer.

Auto-Cross Posting To Twitter

So you don’t have to spend a lot of time posting your articles and links to twitter, you need to download an auto-cross poster. If you are using wordpress there are tons of plug-ins for this. Simply just search Google for an auto-cross poster or for wordpress search “Wordpress To Twitter Plug-in”. What this does is let you configure your site to automatically post headlines of your new articles with a shortened URL/Link back to your article page. These plug-ins use a link shortening service automatically so that you can have more characters to write into your tweet.

Start Posting / Adding Content

Now all you have to do is just simply post your content and with every new article you write, it will be shown on twitter. Depending on your audience and how many twitter followers you have, this will bring you about 100 hits a day with just 2000 followers. (Not everyone will click and go to your article) So this is just my range of hits. With an old news site I was getting 400+ hits a day just from twitter alone with 2000 followers.

All in all, this will help build up your websites popularity while you focus on the SEO and maintenance of website or blog. If you have any questions or like this method, please leave some feedback below.

How To Make Money With A Blog

There are many ways to make money online. Today I will be discussing how to make money with a blog. You can also use these same standards for any kind of website. This is a basic tutorial on how to make money blogging.

Making money with a blog is one of the most easy, efficient ways of doing so. You don’t have to put any time into custom coding your website or doing any programming for dynamic content. It is all set for you and ready to go with one install. This can be done for free or with $15.00 monthly.

Where do I start a free blog?

If you don’t want to invest any money into running a blog, you can go to blogspot and create yourself a blog for a free in minutes. There are benefits to putting a few bucks into your blog though. Blogspot is just one of the free sites around. You can find many others if you search Google.

Why should I invest money?

The benefits to investing money is, you will have your own hosting and a domain name (yourname.com). This way you can brand your website or product and it also looks better to visitors. You can also focus on your niche as to what kind of website yours is and so on.

So….how do I make money?

The possibilities are endless. One of the easiest ways of doing so is through Google Adsense and let’s throw Adbrite in there also. These are two of my most profitable PPC(pay per click) programs I use. What these programs do is enable you to put their ads on your website to fit your niche and in exchange you will get paid per click and per 1000 impressions. So what this means is everytime that someone clicks on an ad you get paid for the click and every 1000 views your ad has you get paid.

Another way I am going to discuss is with Affiliate Networks. An Affiliate Network is basically the middle man between you and the large companies paying to have their ads out there. When you join one of these networks you will get a list of campaigns or products to promote. Depending on the ad, they will either pay you by lead or by sale. A lead is where you don’t have to make any sales. For example let’s say you are promoting a simple “Make Money Taking Surveys” offer. With this offer on Cxdigitalmedia, it will pay you $1.50 every time someone clicks to the ad and just simply enters their email. A sale is pretty self explanatory. Sales are harder to promote but they payout anywhere from $35.00 – $200.00 plus bucks! It all depends on what kind of site you are running.

Now this is simple but you also need to figure out a way to drive traffic to your website.

Here are a few good Affiliate Networks:

CXDigitalMedia
Maxbounty
NeverBlue
ClickBank

I am getting traffic but no ad clicks, why?

This can be a tricky situation. You want to monetize your site to make you money. Where you place your ads is crucial. With Google and Adbrite you have the option of blending the ads into sections of your site to make it look more like it is a part of your site. So if you write an article simply place an ad above it, under it or even in between a paragraph. Put one in your side bar, or even in the header of your site. It all depends on placement. Test it out in different positions and work with your results to find the best targeted area.

With affiliate network ads, you always want to choose one that is related to one or more of your pages. If you have a page about video games but you’re trying to promote a dating offer, it is not going to happen. You could even do reviews on related products then tell the visitor “Hey! if you like this product you may be interested in (other product)” .

So I have a blog, where is my traffic?

This is the challenging part. There are many ways to drive traffic to your blog / website. You should start to learn SEO which is Search Engine Optimization. This is a practice in which you can optimize your blog so that you can rank high in search engines. If you need help be sure to check out our SEO Tutorials . I recently wrote another article about Increasing Traffic With Twitter so you should check this out also for instant traffic while you are studying SEO.

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Twitter Auto-Follow Program – free

This is our new release on our software that we are calling Twit Auto-Follow for now.. Until we think of a better name for it. This software/script is free and it is open source. So we urge you to have fun with it and updates us about any changes you make to it that make it better because we would like to see what you can do with it =)

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Increase site hits with Twitter on autopilot

How to use Twitter on auto-pilot to increase hits?

In this article I will explain this pretty thorough and it is quite simple. I use this method whenever I kick off a new website or blog. First you will need to find an auto tweet plugin for whatever platform you may use, or maybe an auto tweet widget. Search google ..

If you use wordpress, get the WP to Twitter plugin and install it. This is what is called an “Twitter Auto Cross-Poster” which basically means it automatically cross posts your articles and blogs to Twitter. It will post a headline or whichever you set it to with a link on the end back to your article.

If you don’t already have a twitter and make one. Try to get as many follows as you can. I usually build it up to between 1000-2000 followers. Even a few hundred should get you started.

Setting up Twitter Auto Cross-Poster

Once you have installed it go into the options panel and you can customize it from there. Be sure to enter your login information for Twitter. This is pretty customizable and you can even choose from a couple different URL shortening sites.

I actually discovered this method when I started using Twitter last year and noticed a significant change in my uniques and hits. Make sure you update a couple times a day and add a few new articles daily. If you write articles that are unique and intriguing, your visitors will stick around. Try to urge your visitors to discuss the topic. If you keep your site/blog updated with fresh content everyday, you will notice with every day that goes by, your hits will increase. Depending on your content, you may see a huge increase. For example, when I started an old blog using this technique, I was getting 300+ hits a day after less than a week of doing so. As your site gets more popular, you will move up in ranking and well, you can guess what happens from there.

Another technique to double or triple the hits is use a couple different Twitter accounts with a seperate plugin for each one, or find one that posts to multiple accounts. Make sure you have a different follower base with each different account.

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