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How To Get More Blog Traffic From Twitter

April 3, 2014 by Marc Guberti 20 Comments

Twitter is my favorite social network on the web. When utilized properly, Twitter can become a powerful way for you to get more traffic. Most of the people who visit my blog come from Twitter. In a given day, more than 50% of the people who visit my blog came from Twitter. I am going to share with you how I was able to go from getting 0 visitors on my blog from Twitter to getting hundreds of daily visitors just from Twitter alone.

There are three main components that allowed me to see a big transformation in my blog’s traffic, my books’ sales, and my blog’s Alexa rank. The first component towards my blog’s success on Twitter was that I decided to follow targeted followers instead of just following anyone on Twitter. I am not “following random people.” I am following people who are already interested in what I tweet about before they click the follow button. This has led to me making strong connections with renowned entrepreneurs and social media experts.

The second component towards my blog’s success on Twitter is that I sent out tweets at a frequent and consistent pace. Every 30 minutes, I send out a tweet. I send out tweets in the middle of the day, but I also send them out on midnight. If it is midnight at one location, it is the middle of the day in another location. I was amazed when someone tweeted that he would be going to bed at around 6 pm. Then, I realized that person lived in another continent and that 6 pm was really 11 pm where that person lives.

The third component towards my blog’s success on Twitter is being persistent. Doing this for one day will not bring forth a dramatic change. You will most likely experience a big change on the first day you implement these tactics, but then it may take months of consistently following targeted people and scheduling tweets until you see the next dramatic rise in traffic. I am assure you that each dramatic rise in traffic that you experience is better than the last.

What are your thoughts about the components I have used? Do you have any other tips and suggestions to add? Share your thoughts and advice below.

The Biggest Twitter Challenge And How To Overcome It

March 28, 2014 by Marc Guberti 10 Comments

Out of all of the challenges that are involved with creating a Twitter account and being successful, the most challenging part is consistently tweeting and being active even when your follower number is not very high. Even though you are putting in a lot of work, you may only get one or no retweets from your efforts.

This is the biggest challenge. However, if you are tweeting consistently throughout the day, some of your followers will notice. As they engage in your tweets, have conversations with those followers. The conversations you start can build strong connections between you and the follower. By doing this enough times, you will have a retweeting army who will retweet you at will.

The main reason people are not getting a lot of Twitter followers is because we all want to become the person with 100,000 followers while only following 1 person. We need to follow targeted followers in big quantities in order to reach 100,000. Find someone in your niche with over 100,000 real followers, and follow that person’s followers who are likely to follow back. Tweepi is a great tool that gives you a big list of someone’s followers. As you follow people who are likely to follow back, your follower count will rise. In addition, more of your followers will engage in your tweets and have conversations with you.

The biggest challenge on Twitter is to work hard even when you do not have a big audience. If you continue to work hard and gradually build your audience, the same work you were putting in a few months ago will result in multiple retweets for every tweet, more conversations, and a targeted following who loves what you tweet about.

How To Schedule Tweets Five Times Faster

March 27, 2014 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

When I decided to tweet every 30 minutes, that meant more engagement for my tweets. However, tweeting every 30 minutes also meant putting in twice as much time to schedule tweets. On some days, I would spend hours scheduling tweets, and scheduling tweets for hours had an impact on my writing. I was still able to write quality content, but I was not able to write as much as I had in the past.

When I was tweeting every hour, writing 20 blog posts every week did not seem like a challenge. However, when I started to tweet every 30 minutes, writing 20 blog posts every week got progressively harder. To top it all off, I do other things such as videos, homework, and reading. I knew this was going to drive me crazy so I decided to search for a solution.

The funny thing is that the solution was in front of me the entire time. I use HootSuite to schedule my tweets. I had been using the free version of HootSuite for years, but ever since I started tweeting every 30 minutes, I noticed more of my time was getting gobbled up from scheduling tweets. The solution was HootSuite Pro.

HootSuite Pro has many features, but the only one I cared about at the time was the bulk scheduler. HootSuite gives you a file where you can write in all of the tweet you want to send out with the times and dates for those tweets (maximum of 350 tweets per file). Using the bulk scheduler is much faster than using the free version where you manually schedule one tweet at a time, change the dates, change the time, and change the AM and PM.

Now that I am able to schedule tweets 5 times faster, I am also able to write more blog posts. I now have enough time to write 20 blog posts every week and have time left over to write a book. If you are panicking and stressing about the workload of scheduling a lot of tweets and having it take up a lot of your time, I highly recommend paying $9.99 a month for HootSuite Pro. It is worth every penny and saves me at least 10 hours a week.

4 Ways To Get More Engagement On Twitter

March 17, 2014 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

If you want to get the best out of Twitter, you need to engage with your followers. Many people on Twitter miss this step because the believe of big numbers prevails too often. Increasing engagement on Twitter will allow you to have more conversations with your followers. Having more conversations often results in making more connections. The connections you make can result in a sale, a retweet, or free PR. Now that you know why getting more engagement on Twitter is important, these are the 4 ways to get more engagement on Twitter.

Ask questions. Asking questions is an opinion based strategy that encourages more response. When you ask the question, ask questions that you actually have. Do not ask questions just because I told you to ask them. I am actively reading books, and I wanted to add books to my reading list. That’s why I decided to ask my followers what their favorite books are. Because of the tweet I sent, I ended up adding over 10 books to my reading list that day. In addition, I got to interact with my followers and tell them about books I have read before.
Tweet with pictures. It is a proven fact that tweets with pictures get more engagement than tweets without pictures. With Twitter’s preview feature, pictures get more attention. For good pictures with a meaningful tweet, the added attention results in more engagement than normal. The pictures I tweet usually see four times as many retweets and favorites as my other tweets.
Host a giveaway. On Twitter, baseball fans had to decide who the Face of MLB is. On one of the days, David Wright came up, and fans tweeted with #DavidWright for a while. While the tweeting was taking place, Jay Horwitz decided to have giveaways where fans could meet David Wright, get a signed baseball, and do batting practice with the Mets. Jay Horwitz ended up getting more than a thousand retweets that day which was a lot more than normal for him.
Share tweets people would want to remark on. A tweet that looks like spam is not going to get a lot of engagement. A tweet that reveals something incredible such as where the universe ends, how aliens have been colonizing on Mars for 10,000 years……or just a useful tip, that tweet will get more engagement. Although we do not necessarily know where (or if) the universe ends and aliens have not been colonizing on Mars for 10,000 years, it is important to tweet incredible (but true) tweets. By sending out incredible tweets, more people will be likely to remark (engage) on your tweet.

Those are four ways to get more engagement on Twitter. What did you think about these tips? In addition, do you have any other tips that you use to increase engagement on Twitter? Please share your thoughts and insights below.

Reading Mean Tweets

March 17, 2014 by Marc Guberti 1 Comment

Jimmy Kimmel has a remarkable segment called Mean Tweets in which celebrities read hate tweets that they have received. The segment reveals the celebrities’ reactions towards the hate tweets. Mean Tweets serves as a reminder that celebrities have feelings and what you post on social networks can hurt you.

I happened to watch the segment long after it went live, but I was impressed by the message and elements of humor throughout the segment. Little did I know that a few months later I would be getting a similar tweet. I did nothing to deserve it, but it was there.

For the sake of anonymity, I will not reveal the person who sent the tweet. However, it was an offensive one. Instead of letting that tweet ruin my day, I decided to send out this tweet and write this blog post.

I was not pleased when I saw the mean tweet, but I did not let it ruin my day. Criticisms will be hurled at us, but those criticisms must not crush our motivation.

10 Ways To Get More Twitter Followers

March 15, 2014 by Marc Guberti 4 Comments

Having a lot of Twitter followers has many benefits. More Twitter followers makes you look like an expert. All you have to do is have tweets that make you look like an expert, and then you are an expert. More Twitter followers can also result in stronger connections and more traffic to your blog. These are 10 ways to get more followers on Twitter.

Follow others. We all envision the world where we have 100,000 followers but are only following 100 people. However, there are not enough people who know about your Twitter account yet. In order to get more people to know about you, you need to follow others so they have a good reason to follow you back.
Be active on Twitter. People will not follow users who have not tweeted for more than a month. You need to be tweeting every day in order to get a stronger following on Twitter.
Get more engagement with your followers. After you get followers, you need to engage with the followers that you do have.
Get more retweets. When you get retweets, your name gets out there in a positive way. Here are 11 Ways To Get More Retweets On Twitter.
Have a blog. Having a blog is very important towards getting more followers on Twitter. If people see a link to your blog in your bio, they are more likely to follow you.
Tweet quality content. If you want to get more followers, you need to tweet quality content. You need to give people a reason to follow you on Twitter, and sending out quality tweets will give people a very strong reason to follow you.
Have a picture of you for your avatar. Eggs and animals are not good enough for your bio page. Having a picture of you is critical towards getting more followers on Twitter. The picture of you will make someone trust you more than having a picture of an egg or animal (that shows inexperience).
Promote your Twitter account on your blog. I have multiple widgets on my blog that promote my Twitter account. Even when you have thousands of followers on Twitter, continue to promote your Twitter account on your blog. People need to know that you are influential in order to trust you.
Use HARO to get out there. HARO is a great way to get free PR. There are many categories for HARO, and big media outlets such as Forbes, ABC, and Huffington Post use HARO. I used HARO to get on the U.S. News money section.
Guest blog frequently. I recommend guest blogging once every week. When you are guest blogging, be sure to have a link to your Twitter account in your profile to get more followers.

Those are 10 ways to get more followers on Twitter. Do you have any additional tips for getting more followers on Twitter? Please share your thoughts and tips below.