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With Twitter having over 4,000,000 users it is definitely an effective way to drive traffic to your website. Twitter has become a very effective tool for traffic for many bloggers, including myself. With over 8,000 Twitter followers, and driving in over 7,000 page views from Twitter monthly. I think I’m safe to say I’ve mastered the ways of Twitter.

However, some people are unable to create a large enough audience, and find the techniques to effectively market their blog.

Finding followers on Twitter

In order to market effectively on Twitter you need to first build your audience right? So let me break down the easy 2 step process to getting followers on Twitter.

1: Build credibility in your Tweets

Nobody likes a boring tweeter, or someone who tweets about when they just got out of the bathroom. Tweet with interest! Maybe you came across an article and you think it might have some interest for your followers, go ahead and tweet it. This process is how you build credibility through twitter. Displaying valuable tweets of interest!

2: Find people who are targeted in your niche

What is the point of wanting to people to follow you if they have absolutely no interest in what you have to tweet about it? This is why it’s important to find people who are big on Twitter that’s in your niche.

For example: @Problogger is one of the biggest names on Twitter for my niche blogging. With over 75,000 followers, your bound to drive some over to your side of town.

But how do you do it? The secret is to add their most recent 1,000 followers for that day. 30% people on Twitter will follow you back if you follow them. So… for the other 700 that do not follow you how the hell do you get rid of them? Huitter is a service I use to un-follow everyone who does not follow me back.

How to add 1,000 people without any hassle at all

Now clicking on 1,000 “follow me” links can get a little annoying, and time-consuming right? So why the hell waste your time doing it, when you could be catching up on your favorite T.V show or writing a new blog post. The secret to this nifty trick is to use Grease monkey’s Tweet adder.

Setting up Grease monkeys Tweet adder:

1. Download Firefox browser
2. Download Greasemonkey add-on for firefox
3. Install the Tweet-Adder script (Make sure greasemonkey is enabled)

Using Greasemonkey

Using Greasemonkey is very easy to do. Find someone in your niche and click their followers (make sure Greasemonkey is enabled) and the moment you load the follower’s page, Greasemonkey will automatically add everyone.

Pay attention to these next following sentences closely: Greasemonkey will continue adding followers to your Twitter account even if you reached your maximum follower count for the day. I suggest checking your Greasemonkey status every 2-3 minutes to avoid being flagged by Twitter.

Effectively marketing your website

Now that you have the followers, and have built a pretty reputable status on Twitter it’s time to start marketing your website. There are 3 simple, but effective techniques that I use to drive traffic to m blog.

Twitterfeed

Twitterfeed is a great tool I use that syndicates all new articles I release, and tweets it on my Twitter account. Another great thing about Twitterfeed is I’m also allowed to add other blogger’s blog on my feed list, so I’m sharing the love to my respected bloggers and providing valuable information to my followers.

Check out Twitterfeed

CoTweet

CoTweet is by far my favorite Twitter application to use. With CoTweet I can schedule my tweets to be sent out ANYTIME of the day I want, without me being their to send the tweets. All I have to do is schedule the tweet, select a time I want it to be sent, and I’m done!

Building an effective Tweet schedule for maximum results

A lot of new tweeters would try and take advantage of this by scheduling a tweet to go out every 5 seconds, thinking it will do their blog better. Unknowingly they’re lowering their traffic + credibility.

If you’re going to schedule tweets schedule 2-4 articles to go out PER HOUR with at least a 15 minute wait time, between articles. Also…it’s important not to tweet duplicate posts. If you already tweeted about that post earlier today, don’t tweet it the next hour. Give it sometime and let it marinate.

Using these simple techniques will help you become a more effective tweeter on Twitter, and will double your page views.

Check out CoTweet

Being a “friendly” tweeter

Nobody likes someone who is stingy and holds all the glory. So instead of always tweeting about your website, take the time and RT (retweet) some other peoples articles. Now, everyone may not do the same for you but… it shows people you’re a respected tweeter and the ones who do value your content will RT your posts.

Group Discussion

Do you tweet? If so what are some of the techniques you use to be considered an “effective tweeter”? Share some tools you use to dominate twitter, and tell us what do you think about this post? Did you find it helpful? I’m interested to hear your thoughts.

Oh… and remember!

Focus on what you’re good at and the (quality) followers will come.

-Matt Cheuvront

Photo by Jeff Turner

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