It all started when I saw a comment from someone about my post Top Ten Reasons To Use Wordpress. It had a weird site address and mentioned something about Twitter. I didn’t think anything about it other than I was happy that that post ranked high enough in Google for someone to actually find it!
Then I looked at my traffic numbers the next day. Guess what – I saw a huge spike! When I dug deeper into it I found that all of it was coming from the person who found my site and ‘tweeted’ it to his followers. Followers makes him sound like some sort of religious zealot, but in Twitter speak it means those who choose to receive your messages (or ‘tweets’).
Intrigued, I went to Twitter and signed my self up under the name “RapidFireCash” – cool sounding eh?! LOL. Anyway, the next thing I know I have like 15 people signing up to be my ‘followers’. I’m thinking this is a good start considering this is my first day at it!
Increasing Traffic With Twitter
My plan is simple – give people the best information that I can on this site and then alert them (’tweet’ them) my blog content via Twitter. I also have used the TweetMeme Retweet Button plugin for my blog to add a feature beside every blog post so that anyone with a Twitter account can click on the post and send it to their followers.
Bottom Line
What I learned was that there are many different ways to drive traffic to your site. I never really put to much thought into the power of social networks but I’ve changed my tune on that one. Everyone should make it easy for those with networks to share your information that they think will benefit their followers. Do yourself a favour and add this plugin to your site to help with that: Add to Any: Share/Bookmark/Email Button, as well as the other plugin mentioned earlier in this post.
To sign up for Twitter Click Here.
To sign up to follow me on Twitter Click Here.
Geoff
