Twitter is a Great Way to Increase Your Traffic

The answer to the question how do you get traffic is this: There are literally millions of ways, so you really just need to choose the ones that you like best, and do as many of them as you can, or as many as you feel like doing. There are no hard and fast rules about this, just do whatever works for you, and don't be afraid to experiment.

Get Traffic Using Twitter
Recently I have found that using Twitter has brought a lot of traffic to my blogs, with a consequent flow of revenue. If you have come to this through a Twitter link, you probably know all about how it works, but briefly, on Twitter you post messages, called tweets, which other people can read, and you can read their tweets. It has been called a mini-blogging or micro-blogging platform, which is quite a good description of Twitter's basic philosophy. The key idea of Twitter is the concept of "following." You follow people, they follow you. Twitter is huge, and still growing. It's a great way of building up a network, and if you have a lot of people following you, it's also a great way to get people reading your blogs - for free.

Follow and Get Followed
So how do you get a lot of followers on Twitter? I have found a rather effective way to do this is simply to use Twitter Search to find notable people in your chosen niche, follow them, and also follow people from the list of users who follow them. Let's say you have a blog about politics. Let's suppose you find out that one of the top political journalists, Jethro Scroggins of the Daily News, has a Twitter profile. Just follow Jethro, and then also follow as many of Jethro's followers as you can. If you do this, you will gradually build up a base of followers, all with a common interest, and you will be on the way to controlling your niche.

I like to be a bit selective about who I follow from these lists, but I know that some people will just follow ALL the followers of a particular celebrity. It's a question of your own personal taste. But do remember that if you follow too many people at once, you might hit a follow limit. There is more about follow limits on Twitter Help.

Once you start to follow people with the same interests as you, most of them will follow you back, so you will gradually build up your own following. After that, it's up to you to provide interesting content to draw these people to your pages. This method has worked for me, and it should work for you too.

Saving the Effort
After a while, you might find you want to build up a following with less effort on your part. There are a number of sites you can use to help increase your Twitter followers. You might like to try them out; many of them have a free trial, or they have aspects of their service that are perpetually free to use. Once you have got started with using them, and have got used to how the site works, and you are making money, you can maybe upgrade to the paid services for increased effectiveness.

SocialOomph
One of these sites I have found very useful is called SocialOomph. This site brings you a constant stream of followers (it has brought me on average about 100 new followers per day since I started using it) and it also allows you to easily send a welcome message to all your new followers. They give you a dashboard where you can manage multiple accounts on Twitter, you can schedule any number of tweets to be published at a later time, even when you are asleep! You can schedule a whole bunch of tweets for future publication, and then order SocialOomph to publish them evenly at regular times for you. You can easily monitor those times when someone has mentioned your username. These are just some of the things you can do using SocialOomph. And all of the above is completely free. The main advantage of SocialOomph I've found is that a lot of the boring tasks of finding followers is done for you, leaving you free to concentrate on your own creativity.

Using Free Trials To Your Advantage
If you are going by the pure Paterson Hypothesis, (which states that you can make money online without paying any money out first), then you might want to use only those free services I just listed. However, you might want to look at the paid options, which give you greater power, and which do more of the work for you, leaving you free to do other things. With the paid account, you can enter keywords and the system will find followers for you who are using those keywords. You can also schedule recurring messages, and the system will rotate them on automatic for you, until you change it or tell it to stop. The tweets will not be identical, so it will be within the Twitter terms of service, no problem. You can also set some channels, so that you can see only those tweets published by people whom you select, and all the rest are filtered out. You can have different channels which reflect your different areas of interest. There are many more things you can do using the paid account, as you can see by going to the SocialOomph website.

All of these features can be obtained by paying a small monthly subscription. They will save you work, and beef up your results from Twitter, but I can understand if you want to go by the Paterson Hypothesis, and do it purely using free services. You might be interested to know that they offer a week's free trial, and at the end of the week, it automatically reverts back to the free service, so you don't get hassled to continue with the upgraded service. It is totally your own choice. So you can use the free trial to your advantage, and then leave it, or start paying for it, and cancel any time you want.

TweetAdder
Another facility which gives a free trial is TweetAdder. You can use this at the same time as SocialOomph or any other service. Whereas SocialOomph is managed from the website, TweetAdder is a software package that you download to your own computer. There is a free trial download, and after you try it, you might want to upgrade, because it is a really effective program. It brings you targeted followers based on criteria that are set by you, and you can fine-tune these as much as you want, ensuring that the people who follow you are going to be those who are most interested in your products or your interests. Using TweetAdder you can also schedule tweets to run on auto, allowing you to relax on the beach while you are making money. As I said, it may be worth your while to buy it after using the free trial. It is a one-off payment, and there is technical support available after you purchase. But if you want to use the free trial just to gain a whole bunch of followers, and then leave it, then that will still be very useful for you.

Keep Trying!
As I said, there are many other services you can use, on their own or together, but these are the ones that have worked for me, and they have worked really well so far! I am sure they will do the same for you, I hope so.

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