It’s no surprise that Twitter has quickly risen in popularity among social networks. Few national and local newscasts can go an episode without mentioning the powerful tool. It’s almost become a competition to see who can gain the most followers or who can follow the most celebrities.
As a blogger, there are many different ways you can promote your website through Twitter.Here are 5 ways to market your blog with Twitter.
Promote your blog posts.
Use your Twitter account to share posts with your followers. There’s several different Twitter applications available that will automatically update your Twitter status when you publish a blog post. The power of it comes when your followers then share/retweet your blog post to their followers.
Involve your followers.
Twitter ultimately comes down to interaction. You’re not going to get more page views by just telling your followers to check out your new post. Pose a question or target your followers in a way that will spark discussion. Engage your followers!
Put a Twitter app on your blog.
Many bloggers are very active on Twitter, yet much of their audience doesn’t know it because there’s no place to show it on their blog. Put a Twitter widget with recent Tweets or a link on your blog that points people to your profile.
Interact with other bloggers in your niche.
Although it may not seem relevant to promoting your blog, it’s important to network with other bloggers and even promote their work. The better relationship you have with fellow bloggers and the more you share their work, the more likely they’ll be to share yours.
Offer incentives to your Twitter followers.
Doing regular contests and giveaways are the easiest ways to get easy traffic to your blog. Giveaways and deals are one of the most shared types of tweets on Twitter and as long as you’re giving away something interesting, then you’re sure to get traffic to your blog.
re: “Put a Twitter app on your blog”
Amazing how often this is overlooked (yeah, guilty as charged…).
You could gotten two more thumbs-up for inclusion of links to “your favorite” TwTTr widgets/apps. Plus that creates more clicks on your site to bolster search placement.
“Twitter ultimately comes down to interaction.” Doesn’t success always hinge on interaction? Good point.
Otherwise points well taken. Two Thumbs-up!
~DT
If you want to tweet directly from your web browser try out CloudBerry Lab twitter plug-in for IE and FF. You can tweet the text from the page with a click of the button and attach the link to the source page
Indeed, many people need to spark more conversations and deal with people directly to grow their Twitter network.
Thanks for the post… Gonna help a lot to read blogs like these for my new business.
I might add simply using hashtags (the # signs added to make search queries in Twitter) to follow more people like yourself and to allow others to find and follow you.
Again… good ideas… Just started to tweet and feel like it’s already run pretty far. I’m wondering if it’s already peaked yet?
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Nice job of summarizing some key points to help Tweeters new and old market their blog.