Does this sound too good to be true?

It sure did to me!

But the headline was too brazen in its claims for me to ignore it so I read Glen’s latest post on ViperChill where he tested this new automated system and gave a complete analysis.

If you’re looking for traffic from twitter or Facebook you should read:
How to Get 5,000+ Facebook Likes and Twitter Followers Per Day, On Autopilot.

Want some cool stats (and some random stats) about Twitter?

In the race to social media stardom, plenty of bloggers have joined Twitter and are furiously tweeting the titles and openings of every post they publish. When they launch a product or open registration for a seminar, they tweet that.

But surely these can’t be the only ways to support your blog using Twitter?  Your tweets might be limited to 140 characters, but the scope of your tweeting is limited — you guessed it — only by your imagination.

Here are some of the less conventional approaches I’ve seen bloggers employ in using Twitter to support their sites.

Continue Reading: 4 Ways to Use Twitter to Support Your Blog

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If you automatically follow everyone who follows you, then you may find your home feed a bit overwhelming. In order to keep up with all of the people you want to follow based on their interests and your connection to them. Here are nine great Twitter lists to create and ways to use them.

Read: 9 Ways to Use Twitter Lists

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Twitter can be a great way to get traffic but you are losing traffic unless you come up with interesting and tasty headlines that get readers’ attention.

In his latest blog post, How to Create Headlines That Get Retweeted, Tim Ferris explains the art and science of crafting headlines that get attention and are retweeted.

Read How to Create Headlines That Get Retweeted

Twitter is a great tool for broadcasting your message, connecting with clients, and getting traffic.  But it has attracted numerous spammers who send you messages that are nothing more than ads.

Most of us just ignore them.  But I want to show you a simple way to fight back.

Here’s a great video showing how to use Twitter to get traffic and build backlinks.

2,856 Twitter tools…

There’s a new site called OneForty and they have made it their purpose to collect and organize every different twitter application known to man.

If there’s something you want to do on twitter then there is an application for it. And OneForty probably has it.

Also check out their “essential” collection of twitter tools and applications:
http://oneforty.com/essentials

Or take a look at the 100 most popular twitter tools and applications:
http://oneforty.com/popular

This is part of my 30 Days To More Traffic Series

Introduction

I try to keep my interaction with my twitter followers fairly simple. Every day I do a few quick things.

Tweets mentioning @NicksTraffic

I like to see who has mentioned me (@NicksTraffic) on twitter. If someone mentions me it’s usually a because they have a question or they have retweeted something of mine.

If you are logged into twitter you can see who has mentioned you here:
https://twitter.com/#replies

I always send a thank you to anyone who has retweeted my stuff. I will also sometimes look at their profile and see if there’s anything I want to retweet to my followers.

Answering questions

I also answer questions people have. Sometimes I can answer the question in 140 characters. When I don’t have enough characters I will tweet them with my e-mail address and ask them to e-mail me with their question.

Responding to direct messages

Sometimes people want to keep things a little more private and will ask their questions with a direct message. I respond to them each day.

Tweeting valuable stuff

A big part of interacting with your followers is tweeting stuff that they care about. They followed you for reason so make sure that you only tweet stuff they care about.

This is part of my 30 Days To More Traffic Series

There has been a lot of buzz about the growth of twitter and many people are looking to use twitter to get traffic to their website.

Here are 10 simple ways to get more traffic from twitter.

1.  Tweet about new posts to your blog

Whenever you post something new to your blog or website you should Tweet about it.  For me this results in instant traffic to my website.

2.  Use great titles to get more clicks

Having a great title will result in more of your followers clicking on your link.

One of the simplest ways to make a good title is to have it start with a number.  For example:
3 Ways To…
5 Reasons Why…
7 Strategies For…

Numbered headlines get your attention and give you a preview of the content.

It is also a good idea to have your title promise to solve a problem that the reader has.  If it promises real benefit to the reader they are far more likely to click on the link.

For example the title of this blog post promised to show you how to get traffic to your website using twitter.  Getting traffic to your website is a difficult task and a common problem that people have.  The title promise real value.

Putting these two concepts together (using numbered headlines and solving readers problems) you can create great titles that will get more clicks on twitter.

3.  Only tweet about things of value

We live in a age of information overload and one of the ways of coping with this is to ignore stuff.  In fact we ignore most of the information out there.

So if you don’t want your tweets should be ignored by your followers and make sure they have real value.

And don’t try to sell something via twitter.  A lot of people have lost their followers because they tried to make a quick buck.

Remember that people follow you because of the value you provide to them.  The minute you stop doing this is the minute that you lose followers.

4.  Tweet about old blog posts

There will be some days when you don’t have any new blog posts to tweet about.

When this happens simply find an old blog post with good value and tweet about that.  Chances are that many of your followers have never seen it.

5.  Use Google Analytics to track the best days & times to tweet

Some days a week and sometimes the day are better than others for tweeting about your new blog posts and getting traffic.

I recommend trying different times to see what works best.  I use Google analytics to help me determine how much traffic I get from different tweets.

Gary McCaffrey has gathered data that suggests that 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. (Pacific Standard Time) are the best times to tweet and get traffic.

This is probably a good place to start.  But you need to test and discover what works best for you.

6.  Make it easy for visitors to tweet about your site

If you use WordPress there is a simple plug-in that puts a “ReTweet This” button on every blog post.  It allows visitors to retweet your post with a click of button.  It also displays how many people have tweeted about it.

It’s called the Tweetcount Plugin and you can download it here for free:
http://www.backtype.com/plugins/tweetcount

7.  Use url shorteners

On twitter you only have 140 characters and it would be a shame to waste it with some long and ugly URL.  So I recommend using a URL shortening or like tinyurl.com.

This allows you to devote more characters to an eye-catching title and description and fewer characters to your URL.

8.  Keep your Tweets less than 120 characters

I want people to be able to easily retweet my stuff and so I try to have all of my tweets be 120 characters or less.  Then when someone retweets something of mine there is plenty of room for the “RT @NicksTraffic” which is placed at the front of the retweet.

And having more retweets results in more traffic for me.

9.  Get more followers

Obviously if you have more followers then each tweet get more attention and result in more traffic to your website.  Here are a couple ways to get more followers:

1. Place an invitation to follow you on twitter on your homepage.  I recommend putting it above the fold where people can see it without having to scroll down.
2. After your main content block on every page post a link to your twitter account that says something like “Follow @NicksTraffic on twitter and great tips on X”

10.  If you tweet with a link to a video or audio make sure you mention it in your tweet

Sometimes I’ll find a great YouTube video that I want to share with my followers.  I know that some of them are at work and may not appreciate having a video come onto their screen alerting their boss that they are watching videos and not working.

So whenever I tweet a link to a YouTube video I always begin the tweet with the word Video so that my followers know it’s a video and can choose whether to watch it at that time.

For example:  “Video:  11 ways to get more traffic for free”

Doing this builds a level of trust with my followers.  They trust that if I tweet about a video they will know before hand and not be caught off guard.  And this results in more traffic for me.