If you are a freelance or blogger and you have a blog with interesting content, you can get more traffic using Facebook and Twitter.
In this article, I’ll try to show you how to increase your site’s traffic explaining every detail about Facebook and Twitter. You must invest few ours to read and setup correctly Facebook and Twitter paying attention to this article and my suggestion.
Few weeks ago I’ve seen some stats published by a blogger about facebook and twitter. I was surprised to know that facebook sends more traffic than twitter.
With 3000+ friends on Twitter and only 1000+ on Facebook, he has received more traffic from Facebook. You can see stats attached below that prove it.
In this part of article, I’ll show the most important aspects of Twitter. I’ll try to explain how and why use it to promote your blog. If you are just a Twitter user with good experience of Twitter platform, you can skip this part of article, anyway I suggest you to read it.
Twitter FAQ says: “Twitter is for staying in touch and keeping up with friends no matter where you are or what you’re doing.”. So, you can send updates via SMS, email or from one of Twitter applications now available.
Twitter is considered a micro blogging system because you can send message to your followers (your friends or fan) with a limitation of 140 characters per message.
You only ask Twitter question: “What are you doing?”, and your followers can see how are you doing. A very simple thing that mades Twitter a powerful application.
Twitter can be a powerful marketing and community building tool with the ability to build relationships with your blog’s audience and provide a good promotional medium.
A lot of people don’t use Twitter because they consider it as a time consuming and distraction. The value comes if you have some kind of busines like a blog to promote. The only thing that you have to do is to form relationship using twitter to get more followers.
When you first join Twitter you’ll have no followers. If you are creating a personal account, you can email your friends and tell them to follow you on twitter.
The secret to have succes with Twitter is to listen interesting tweets that your followers sends to you. If you receive stupid tweets you can ignore it. You must remember to follow only interesting people and form a good relationship.
When you will use Twitter you have to remember: “Don’t be too noisy”. You need to make sure that you are not one of noisy people, otherwise you will lose followers. I suggest you to send a minimum of 1 tweet and a maximum of 6 tweets per day (Twitter is not an Instant Messaging Client).
Another important thing when you will use twitter, is to send message about you and not use it only for promote your blog.
For my blog I use Wordpress as CMS, and every time I write a post it sends automatically a tweets to all of my followers.
To do this, I’ve used a plugin called TwitMe .
If you are not a Wordpress user, you can use Twitter Feed or send manually updates.
To get traffic from facebook, you have to import automatically what you write on Twitter.
To automatically get your Tweets sent to Facebook, you have to follow these simple steps:
Search “Twitter” in Facebook’s search field and click on the first results.
Add the twitter Facebook Application
Choose your settings and add the Twitter Facebook application to your profile.
Enter your twitter login information.
Choose to have Twitter update your Facebook status and allow Twitter to update your Facebook status.
I hope you will be surprised by the results of this article.
Add me on Twitter and check out my Facebook Group to keep you updated.
Thanks, great bit of information. I wish there was an app that let you do the same thing with Stumbleupon.
As a top Twitter business user, I was sent an advance copy of the Tweet Adder System for my review. This is by far the best Networking Tool I have used for Twitter!
Great explanation! I personally feel that facebook should able to brings more traffic than twitter, as for me I do not really read and click every updates by those I followed in twitter
i just love Twittering compared to blogging. i was a blog addict and now i am a Twitter addict.