I’ve been experimenting with Twitter over the past few months, and have come to find that if you know what you’re doing, it can be a fantastic way to get tons of targeted traffic to your websites.
Obviously, the key phrase from what I just wrote is “if you know what you’re doing.” During the first month I used Twitter, I wasted countless hours and got very little traffic to my websites. It was an incredibly frustrating situation.
Then, I came up with the following three Twitter rules, which I’ve since shared in previous posts:
These rules helped to increase my Twitter traffic exponentially, which has helped to bump up my Adsense, affiliate and marketing revenue. Needless to say, I was pretty pleased with the above rules.
However, I still felt like I could get more out of Twitter, so I started to experiment the actual words in my Tweets. After playing around for the past month or so, I’ve come up with the following headlines as the most likely to get your links clicked:
- Who else…
- How to…
- Top (insert number here)…
Who else tends to promote a sense of community, and also can promote you as an authority source. For example, I recently promoted a link to Life Lock on one of my Twitter accounts using the Tweet: “Who else wants to avoid becoming a victim of identity theft?”
In one day I had over 100 clicks, which is much better than the 10 clicks I got from using the “Visit Life Lock to learn about staying safe from identity theft.”
Obviously, everyone would like to avoid becoming a victim of identity theft, but by posing the question using a “who else,” I was able to get a ton more clicks.
How to is great because you’re basically telling anyone reading your Tweet, “If you have this problem, I can solve it.” This promotes you as an authority, and will get almost anyone looking for your solution to click on your link.
Top (insert number) is great because everybody loves lists. Really, it’s true.
So, if you’re interested in generating more traffic from Twitter, follow the three rules I posted previously, and follow my headline advice. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised with how much your traffic increases.
I agree with most of what you said, but blocks of 10 or 20 will get you unfollowed faster than anything on my timeline, I would rather tweet 2 or 3 and have value draw them in. Then I include an automatic link under each Tweet back to my blog.
Warren,
Thanks for the comment. I have yet to see a lot of unfollows due to my 10 to 12 Tweet block rule, however, maybe I’ll start experimenting with your 2 to 3 Tweet block and see if it makes a difference in traffic.
Brian