18 Best Practices To A Traffic Driving Twitter Account
Having a website is easy; driving traffic can be difficult and few manage to generate consistent amounts of traffic.
When asked about the best source of traffic, the majority of social media marketing "guru's" said Twitter is the best source of traffic.
But you can't drive traffic by just having a Twitter account and tweeting once in a while only. Here are the some of the best practices to become a Twitter power user.
- Complete your profile
- Use a good profile picture
- Tweet at least 5 to 10 times a day until you find your own sweet spot
- Use links in your tweets
- Use different type of content in your tweets like quotes, links, pictures etc.
- Consistent tweeting matters
- If you are tweeting regarding an event use a # tag
- Give credits whenever possible by adding a user's Twitter handle
- Use Twitter's search to find questions regarding your niche and answer them
- Twitter is a conversion; connect with like minded people using @ replies
- Don't over promote yourself, most recommend using a 1:9 ratio
- Ask questions
- Use tools like www.wefollow.com to find new followers
- Engage with people; more engagement more followers
- Promote your Twitter account on your blog, website and other social networks
- Follow Twitter power users in your niche and learn the best practices
- Retweet other people; every one likes to be pampered
- There are plenty of tools and apps to enhance your Twitter experience; I like Hootsuite and Buffer
What is your best source of social media marketing traffic? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below.
Rana is a Social Media Marketing enthusiast and the founder of All Marketing Solutions. All Marketing Solutions He is helping small businesses to build online visibility, establish authority and get more leads using social media.
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Hi Rana. Thanks for these pointers. I am a newbie in the online marketing business and only just started using Twitter. I wasn't too sure if it was good etiquette to reply to peoples tweets but I see I can so will do now as I would like to leave a comment when something that is said resonates with me or when I don't quite understand what they mean but found what they said intriguing. I wouldn't tweet just to get noticed only to get clarification on something that is of interest to me. Is this OK to do?
Many thanks
Isabella