Powerful Tweeting Techniques To Drive Traffic To Your Blog | Microgeist

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I found this a great start to giving ideas on how to use Twitter to drive traffic to your blog or website. Some of the first 5 tips are:

Communicate a benefit

Blogs have been associated for a long time now with opinion and personal experience. This is often times the way they are portrayed in the main stream media. This may be due, in part, to the desire on some level to frame blogs as a less authoritative resource.


Make claims and promises

A claim or promise is certainly attractive, but because you are working in social media you must always maintain your trust asset. This, along with your content, is a major component to your traffic engine. This means that whatever your claims are, they should be backed up by content or services that meet those statements. Not doing so eats into your trust asset while doing so contributes to it. Halfway meeting it may maintain your status on this level but it also provides opportunities for competitors to surpass you with superior quality. You are better off being comprehensive and in so doing providing a disincentive for other to try and emulate you. What is more likely in this case is for someone to link to you and add their own commentary or insight on top of yours. What this does is embed you in the community as a person that consistently contributes. From there, you can develop the authority to a) sucessfully recommend affiliate products and services or b) market your own.

Personalize

- Rather than speaking in the general sense as in ‘drive more traffic to a blog’, it is better to phrase it: ‘Drive more traffic to your blog’ This is because many people in smaller niches may be of the opinion that a generalized approach is suitable only for sites with a given minimum traffic requirement. By making things more personal, a reader will start to visualize the proposition as applying to him or her.

Use Keywords

- This aids in being found because each keyword can help your tweet be found via different seach criteria. Many of these words work well together and may be searched as a pair, which will push you further up in the search result. Twitter search is used by many to find information but at the same time it does not have the same volume as Google. What this means is that you are competing with fewer people for top ranking. While this might mean a smaller base of users, it also means a more enthusiastic person because they are using a wider variety of tools to find what they want.

Ask a question

- A question can be one that searches for an answer but what tends to be more effective are questions that pose a controversy or are rhetorical. That latter is particularly effective because it states both the content being delivered as well as the fact that you have a possible solution for them.

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"What's the FOUR Letter Word Asked About Social Media?" Video

What is the FOUR Letter Word Asked About Most Frequently Regarding Social Media, at Social Media Marketing Seminars and Classes throughout the United States?
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Details at the event signup page here:


Getting Connected through Social Media Class for Realtors.

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• WEDNESDAY FREE LUNCH TRIVIA QUESTION OF THE DAY

What Lewis Carroll book was banned in China after censors decided:
"Animals should not use human language"?
Answer: YOU TELL ME! :-)

So, for every correct answer that is either either replied via Facebook (post a reply/comment on my wall under the question) or Twitter (send me an @edbisquera reply) or post a comment here below on my blog, gets entered into a drawing to win a FREE Lunch to Blackstone, Gift Card valued at $50! Now, you can send me a private message via Facebook and Twitter too with the correct answer; that will get you entered to win.

Again, it's for every CORRECT ANSWER that gets you into the drawing. And I'll post a video recording of me drawing the winner next Wednesday, along with the new Wednesday Trivia for Free Lunch.

I had NO ONE enter the contest last week, so I'm hoping there's a few that at least play along for a FREE LUNCH to Blackstone Restaurant (ok, you get a $50 gift card. Deadline is by next Tuesday, July 7 at Midnight!).

• The FOUR Letter Word Dealing with Social Media
revealed at the 1:45 mark in video above

It's every person's "curse" and every person's main question when talking about using Social Media. Are you facing the same problem? Are you interested in learning more and how to maximize this FOUR Letter word? Watch the video to find out what I talk about and if you're interested in a Social Media 101 Class & Course, contact me through EdBisquera.com or call me at (360) 597-8283. I will have an event sign up here on my blog tomorrow. Stay tuned!

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Best wishes to you and here's to a wonderful Wednesday!

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"If 2008 taught us anything, it’s that 2009 stands to be proving ground for the social Web. With declines in viewership, subscriptions and recall of traditional channels, it will be more important than ever for marketers to cut through the noise and separate the hype from the truth about what the social Web is all about. And, if the burn rate for most start-ups is any indication, 2009 might be the make-or-break year for many of those shiny trinkets to start putting out for investors.With this in mind, and the uncertainty of the economy a reality, I see the new year as a great opportunity for everyone to catch up on all these changes and take advantage of the great things happening on the Web. Here are a few resolutions marketers can make in ‘09 to help bring about a prosperous new year."

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