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Hi Guys,

I wanted to share few twitter marketing tips with you.

Twitter is a powerful platform to engage with your readers, connect new people and drive traffic to your site.

However, there are very few people really teaching how to take full advantage of this powerful platform.

It took me quiet sometime to drive traffic from Twitter.

1. Post in Blocks: One of the best ways to drive more traffic from Twitter to your site is by posting in blocks of 3 -4 tweets at a time.  This way your tweets show up in a row giving you more exposure.

Make sure that all your tweets are of high value, last tweet being the most important as that is the one that's going to show up on top. If you do not know what to tweet about, you get some really good
content to tweet in the below sites.

alltop.com
tweetmeme.com
stufftotweet.com

2. Label Your Tweets: Another way to get more clicks on your tweets is to label your tweets. For example, FREE PDF: , VIDEO: etc..

"FREE Report: Grab this free report in which I revealed all my traffic secrets ......."

You also need to re-tweet your most valued content 3 -4 times a day. If you re-tweet them at different points of time in a day, your tweets will be exposed to an entirely new set of audience.

The best times to tweet your most important content in Twitter: 12am to 2pm, evening after 6pm.

From my observation, people are least active on Sunday.

3. Su.pr: This is the only URL shorterner that puts your content infront of 8 million Stumbleupon users. You can schedule to tweet your posts at any time or date in future. Thus, allowing you to retweet your posts during peak times through out the day.

4. Hash tags: Use the most popular hash tags in your tweets. Any word that starts with the sign "#" becomes a Hash tag which inturn links to all other mentions of that word.

For example, if you go to Twitter search and search for "#marketing", you will find a long list of tweets containing
"#marketing" in them.

So, including popular hash tags in your tweets can give you lot of exposure.

Few resources to find popular hash tags.

http://hashtags.org
http://twubs.com

If you want to follow people talking about Facebook, you can search Twitter using #fb hash tag and find a list of people talking about Facebook. If you have a very good content or article on Facebook which you want to tweet in Twitter, then you can use #fb in your post.

I suggest you to use one or two popular hash tags in a single tweet, without diluting their effectiveness.

For more indepth information, visit

http://www.blog.theideashome.com/

This is great stuff.

Another strategy I use that works great for me is to use http://www.tweetbeep.com to send me via email alerts on keywords from twitter search that I have found to be profitable and useful for me. I then reply back to the people who are asking questions about my keywords.

Fantastic info thanks. I have not been utilizing twitter as much as I should.

These are really helpful, thanks. I recently discovered the hash tags option, it is a great way to keep your content relevant to your target audience.

I've been finding success using the Tweet Spinner tool. Besides being able to find & follow people based on the keywords in their Tweets and/or their Twitter profile, it lets me change my Twitter profile bio, so others can find me based on the KW's in my Twitter profile.

Over the past 33 days since tracking my Follower count, I'm encouraged to see a 51% reciprocity on both KW and the "tagged" Profiles I selected to follow who they are following.

There is another way that's not exactly driving traffic but more about getting followers on twitter. This is what I'd do.

1. Find twitter users who are in the industry or niche you are in

2. Start following their most active users, usually follow people who have made an update within the last 24hours.

3. Follow as many as 900 - 1000 per day depending on your daily limit / ratio

If you can build up a high amount of followers within your industry your traffic is not only increased but more targeted.

Alternatively you can mix up this strategy by searching twitter for people who talk about certain keywords in your industry.

Just my 2 cent

I agree twitter is a great tool for driving traffic and also good for finding business people.

Great advice.  I have definitely found twitter to be a useful tool.  I highly recommend using a picture and having good, relevant info in your bio.  This is usually how people will choose who to follow.

One more to add to this great list:

If you want to target local twitterers:   check out Localtweeps.com.

You can follow people by city and even zip code.

--Daphne