Create Your Own Twitter Traffic Machine

Twitter is a crazily fast-growing site with 1 aim. To help you reach millions of people instantly.

The site has become incredibly popular because it connects people with a global audience. Membership numbers have continued to explode on Twitter since the site began a few years ago, and you can use this popular Web 2.0 MONSTER as a website Traffic Machine.

Step 1. Set up your account correctly

Go and look at your Twitter profile right now.

Have you…

* Added an interesting image?
* Customised your colors?
* Change the default background?
* Filled in your bio and location?
* Added your site link in the bio?

If you’re missing any of these, go and do them now. The more interesting your profile is, the longer you’ll hold people’s attention. At least, that’s where we begin!

Step 2. Follow Targeted People

If you don’t already have a popular blog or email list, you will initially grow your list of followers by finding and following key people yourself. You follow them, they follow you back.

You can follow people manually and keep track of it all manually, but I recommend getting a tool to do it for you. I use TweetAdder. Try the demo to see if you like it before you pay anything.

Step 3. Get Involved.

You can’t just post link after link, expecting your new audience to just lap it up. You need to get involved in what people are saying. ReTweet interesting posts, @reply to people, Direct Message where appropriate. Don’t just expect to get tons of traffic for no reason.

Step 4. Feed your blog onto Twitter.

I’ve written a tutorial about how to do this here.

You get each new blog post automatically “Tweet itself”. Driving traffic to your blog is perfectly acceptable, sending people to your salespage generally is not. Your followers will get tired pretty quickly.

Step 5. Be Patient!

Web traffic is a patience game. Don’t think it will all happen over night.

Keep at it, work hard, and tweet until you can tweet no more!