HOW TO BOOST YOUR TWITTER FOLLOWER
By now you probably know that what Twitter is and how it works. For them who
have no idea on what twitter.com is, it’s a social media messaging network where
you can post short updates. Since twitter is real time and public, everyone and
anyone in the world can follow your stream and connect with you. I won’t go to
the basics again, just go ahead and register for a twitter account. Chances are that
you already have a twitter account and thinking how you can utilize it.
I have used twitter to successfully drive targeted traffic to my blog and increase
the number of ReTweets (when people re post your tweets). I have made things
automated so I don’t have to spend hours every day to my twitter account. I will
show you the exact ways that I have used to gain this traffic and how you can too
drive hundreds of new visitors everyday using your twitter account.
Optimize your twitter username: Make sure that you have a short and easy to
type in username. My name Tamal Anwar will become twitter.com/TamalAnwar
which will be harder for people to type (yeah the longer the harder) I made
my twitter name shorter to twitter.com/xTamal –this is because “tamal” was
taken so I put an extra “x” in first. You may add an extra “i” such as iBenny to
make sure that you get a good username. When I use such a small name it will
be easy for people from their mobile devices to type my username. My blogs
name “blogkori” is a good username since a lot of people know about it.
Twitter allows numbers and underscores “_” in your username. Avoid them
because it is harder to remember or type. Most people use twitter from their
phones these days. Make it easy for them to mention and you will get more
traction.
- Use your own picture: Put a good headshot of yours as your twitter handle.
People trust users with a human face. Have a headshot. In twitter your profile
picture will look tiny at different apps and mobile phones, so make sure that your
face is clear when the image is smaller.
Describe yourself and add a link to your blog: Put a good description of yourself
as a person. Descriptions that reveal you as a person works best. If you like to play
Call of Duty, add that in your description. So many people would follow you just
because you play the same game as they do. Also add a few keywords related to
work. For an example I will be adding web design, blogging in my detail. Then add
your blog address at the url section.
Getting More Followers Daily
The main game of twitter is to get more people to follow you. A general rule of
the thumb is, you follow people and they will follow back. So it works like this,
#1 you follow a number of people
#2 you wait a few days for them to follow you back naturally
#3 you un-follow the people who are not following back
But, it’s not that simple. This is very time consuming and you will have to invest
at least one hour everyday only for following and un-following users. With this
approach you will quickly lose interest and end up spending more time than what Ebookyou are getting back in return.
- I have a quick way for you to do this. Use TweetAdder (This is my affiliate link) you
should be able to grab a free trial where you can test this out. This software will
allow you to auto follow your list and then auto un-follow the people who are not
following you. This way within a few weeks you can get hundreds of followers and
you will be following less people than who you are following.
What I like best of this software is that after you install and setup your account,
it naturally performs your daily twitter tasks. Twitter will think that you are
manually using your account.
It’s a serious time saver actually. What I do is to search for people in twitter using
my keywords. TweetAdder matches the fields and shows me up the results. I then
put the results in follow list and TADA!! My account starts to follow the accounts
that I have specified.
If you are running multiple twitter accounts, then I recommend getting a multi
user license that will save you money upfront.
Maintaining Your Twitter Reputation
- Now that I have covered the part on how to get the number of twitter followers;
why they should care about your tweets? Frankly speaking they don’t care
and they have no idea that you exist. This is because the number of people who
are following you, out of them only 10% of people will read and maybe share
your content. To make that 10% count, you have to follow a plan and build a
reputation.
This is what I have come up with. Consistency. The more you show up on people’s
stream the more you will gain reputation and people will click on your link. I call it
one tweet every hour. You can try your own formula by posting a tweet every half
hour but any more than that will be a kill, you will lose it.
You have to make sure that one tweet is worth it and it should not have a link.
Let me explain, if you give your best advice in a tweet and if it doesn’t points to
any links, people will stop at it and think about it. In twitter people are used to
look at links so they ignore it. You are not a celebrity so they don’t care what you
had in lunch, so be helpful.
What I did was to write useful blogging, design and SEO tips. These are the things
that I write on my blog. Then I wrote one liner tweets in a notepad. I made a
collection of it. I kept writing new tips every time I get a new idea. I kept 100s of
them in the notepad. Now the trick is I will broadcast them automatically every
hour in twitter.
24 tweets in 24 hours
I will never run out of tweets because I can use my old tweets again because most
people haven’t read every tip I posted.
- When I follow people, they are from around the world and they are checking their
twitter at different times. If they see my face and the useful tweet and they keep
seeing it regularly, they will come to my profile and check me out.
To automate this process I will connect my account with HootSuite.
This service allows me to post updates at a future date. What I do is to Put all
these tweets in hourly interval and enjoy what I am doing. The best thing is you
can schedule a week or even few weeks ahead with tweets. Your twitter followers
will see the tweets and they will respond back. When they mention you, all you
have to do is to get back to them. Take 10 minutes every day for monitoring your
twitter account for the mentions and re-tweets.
When you are sending 24 auto tweets, they are not links. What you now have to
do is to post a tweet that point to one of your blog posts. Send 4 links like this
every day at 6 hour intervals. Make these auto tweets too.
The benefit is that you will get more clicks because you post enough useful tweets
and people are open to you. You will also be able to check when you get more
clicks using the analytics tool such as Bitly.
If you keep repeating the process and gain new followers, you will increase the
traffic to your blog from twitter.
©2012 www.BlogKori.com – Tamal Anwar – You are allowed to share this ebook – Tweet This EbookSo let us quickly recap the whole process,
1. Optimize your twitter username, make is short and easy to type
2. Put your personal headshot as your twitter avatar
3. Put a good personal description and add a link
4. Follow, un-follow and automate it using TweetAdder
5. To build a reputation post genuine advice (no link)
6. Make a list of tweets in a notepad
7. Automate your tweets using HootSuit and post 24 tweets a day
8. In between send 4 tweets with link to your blog at 6 hour interval
9. Monitor your performance and take 10 minute everyday to reply to people
10. Rinse and repeat and grow your followers and traffic to your blog
Some More Ways to Get Followers Naturally
● Put a twitter widget on your blog
● List your account in twitter directories like WeFollow
● Put your twitter link on your facebook profile and page
● Tweet other people’s posts and mention them
● Add a twitter follow button on your site
● Join in a real conversation
Thank you
