how to get more blog traffic from twitter

3 Ways To Get More Blog Traffic From Twitter

July 9, 2014 by Marc Guberti 4 Comments

If you use Twitter to get more blog traffic, it can turn into the juggernaut of your blogging strategy. Twitter accounts for 50% of this blog’s traffic, and when I saw a big increase in my Twitter traffic, I also saw a big increase in my SEO traffic. There is a connection between social media and SEO. In order to see the increase in traffic that you want to see, you need to know how to get more blog traffic from Twitter. Here are three ways to do that.

Schedule tweets of your blog posts to show up consistently and frequently. One of the most common mistakes people make on Twitter is only tweeting about their blog 20% of the time. This is a method we use because we don’t want to only promote ourselves (because that would paint a “bad image”). Your followers don’t care about who wrote the content. They only care about whether the content provides value or not. In addition, it is okay to tweet once every 20 minutes. The average Twitter user only spends 20 minutes on Twitter which means most people will only see one of your tweets. Tweet often, and tweet about your blog.
Pin your most popular tweets of one of your blog posts. This tweet will appear on the top of your profile. Your followers who see the tweet will quickly realize that the tweet was pinned. As they wonder why that tweet got pinned, those followers will realize that the tweet is very popular. People like popular things, so they will visit the blog post in that tweet and read the article. Here’s how you pin a tweet to the top of your Twitter feed.
Interact with your followers. During a free giveaway for one of my books, I realized I was in trouble. The categories for that book were outdated (they were no longer on Amazon’s website), and the up-to-date categories that applied to my book were not available. That means I would not be able to get a lot of extra sales from Amazon’s site. Instead of focusing on getting my book’s ranking down (to make the Top 100 Bestselling Lists for certain categories which would have resulted in hundreds of extra free downloads), I relied on Twitter. I interacted with my followers, pinned the tweet about my free book, and people came by asking me about the book, telling me how they liked it, and some of these people even left reviews for my book. If you want to grow your blog traffic, interact with your Twitter followers so they have the ability to listen. Here are some ways to boost the amount of interaction you have with the audience you built from the ground up.

Your blog is your home on the web. You might as well make it a mansion on the web that everyone admires. What are your thoughts on using Twitter to grow your blog’s traffic? Do you have any additional tips on utilizing Twitter to get more blog traffic? Please share your thoughts and advice below.

3 Ways To Promote Your Blog On Twitter

June 23, 2014 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

In order to get more traffic for your blog, you need to be omnipresent on all social networks. Twitter is one of the social networks you have to be present on, but in order to get a lot of blog traffic from Twitter, you need to know how to promote your blog on Twitter. You may be wondering why the list for this blog post is so short. Most of my blog posts have at least five methods on the list while others go over 50. The reason why this list is so short is because building your audience is the main way to get more traffic. These are just three ways to promote your blog so that the audience you have is more likely to view your blog posts.

Add a link to your blog in your bio. Please do not forget to do this. Many people forget to update their bio for several months, and within those several months, a lot of things can change. You may have switched blogs and decided to focus on a new niche. There is no reason to promote your old blog that will never get updated again. Promoting the new blog in your bio is now the priority.
Tweet about your blog post at least 80% of the time. Many people do not realize that their audiences do not care about how much you promote your blog. Some people are quick to point out that you should share other people’s content and not just their own. If you tweet how-to articles, your audience does not care about the author. They only care about learning more information. If you write quality content, your audience will not mind reading blog post after blog post on your blog. In fact, they’ll want you to tweet your blog posts more often.
Tweet more often throughout the day. Doubling the amount of tweets you send out every day will result in a dramatic increase in traffic. If you schedule tweets throughout the day, you will be able to get visitors from all parts of the world at any time. Tweeting every hour eliminates the problem of time zones, and tweeting even more frequently will make people in your audience more likely to see one of your tweets.

By promoting your blog on Twitter and growing your audience, you will eventually be able to get hundreds of daily visitors to your blog from Twitter alone.

Twitter Case Study: When I Decided To Tweet Every 20 Minutes

May 13, 2014 by Marc Guberti 2 Comments

A while ago, I wrote a Twitter Case Study about how I tweeted every 30 minutes. Since then, several changes have been made to my Twitter strategy. I now use HootSuite Pro which gave me a lot of cool features such as the Bulk Scheduler. Since it became much easier to schedule tweets, I realized that there would be no harm towards increasing my frequency. The reason I did not tweet every 20 minutes until HootSuite Pro is becasue sending out that many tweets manually would have taken too much time.

Now that time is no longer a problem, I decided to see what would happen if I went from tweeting every 30 minutes to tweeting every 20 minutes. While tweeting every 30 minutes, I got around 175-200 visitors every day from Twitter. When I started tweeting every 20 minutes, I saw a noticeable increase in traffic. In less than a week, my blog was already getting over 300 daily visitors from Twitter alone. Getting that big increase in traffic also resulted in search engine traffic rising by 50%.

In my first case study, I came to the conclusion that tweeting about your blog more frequently increases your blog’s traffic. My second case study came to the same conclusion. Maybe I’ll decide to schedule 1 tweet every 15 minutes, but that won’t be happening for a while (or at all). The more you tweet links to your blog posts, the more traffic you will get. In order to get the best results, you need to be tweeting at a consistent, frequent rate.

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.

How Twitter Transformed This Blog And My Sales 140 Characters At A Time

February 1, 2014 by Marc Guberti 6 Comments

For most of 2013, you probably didn’t know about this blog. I did not surpass 500 views in a single month until July. It was shortly after that when the exponential traffic started to kick in. August and September had to do with optimizing bounce rate so people would stay on my blog once they found me. Then, I started to tweet about my blog more, and by December, a majority of my tweets were about my blog.

Then, I made the change from tweeting every hour to every 30 minutes. That change helped out a lot. I stopped relying on the search engines because that was a mistake that I was making for too long. I decided to rely on Twitter for traffic, and it paid off.

The daily traffic I get from Twitter is always 4-8 times more than the daily traffic I get from search engines. Time and time again, people have visited my blog because they saw one of my tweets. January was a breakthrough month. December 2013 brought forth over 5,000 views. January 2014 brought forth over 10,000 views. Many of those views came from Twitter.

You’re probably reading this blog post right now because you saw my tweet and clicked on the link. You could have also visited this blog post through the search engines, but most people come to my blog via Twitter.

My sales have benefitted as well. In fact, my book sales have more than doubled ever since I started to optimize Twitter for my blog. More people visit my blog which means more people see my books and click on them. My book How To Be Successful On Twitter has seen the biggest increase in sales, and that is probably because the people on my blog found my blog through Twitter. In fact, the people who buy my book tweeted that they bought my book, so I know they came from Twitter.

Twitter has the power to dramatically increase the amount of traffic you get on your blog. All you have to do is tweet with 140 characters at a time, build a targeted following, and stick with it. Persistence will allow you to see the hockey stick traffic that every blogger wants to see.