Getting more traffic utilising your Twitter profile
By randomguy. Filed in Random |
The micro bloging platform Twitter has produced a small media storm in the last few months with a glut of subject gurus using Twitter on their video casts , and Internet marketing gurus telling us we can leverage Twitter to hundreds of fans , the interest in Twitter is at a record peak . You probably know people who are on Twitter and suppliers may have invited you to join them on Twitter . And that is what I want to discuss with you today . What are YOU doing about it for yourself?
I don't think many people understand the Twitter phenomena. And that's probably because it can mean different things to different people.
Despite what you think of Twitter for yourself, there are opportunities you should deploy and there's a great FREE training video about that at http://www.TrafficHug.com/twittervideo/ but whatever you do, you should be doing something. Even at a minimum you have one more point of contact via Twitter , ideally with some way of people finding you by your keyword, or your name. Some people will just try to type your name on Twitter and see if you come up.
In other articles we talk about how to get noticed for your keyword and how to manage your account for targeted conversion (also covered well in that free video I mentioned earlier) but let's do something we can do right now.
Most people think of Twitter traffic as being an internal affair . A concept most Twitter directories encourage . But with Twitter , the advantages of having your regular traffic follow you on Twitter are enormous . So valuable that we need to do something about it now .
One thing we can do almost immediately is to add a Twitter "badge" to your existing web entities . A badge is a simple graphic stating who you are on Twitter with a link to your Twitter identity. In the videos I mentioned , they reveal how , but let's stick to a simple badge for now .
WHERE CAN I GET MY TWITTER BADGE ?
You can get your own customised Twitter badge without spending any money from the following website ;
http://wwwTwitterHug.com/twitter/category/badge/ - FREE Customised Twitter FollowMe Badges .
You paste the HTML in to your site.
It works great on WordPress blogs as a sidebar Text Widget. I've inserted one on all of my own blogs.
The Twitter badge is contained in its own little HTML DIV tag so should live perfectly almost anywhere.
You can create an HTML table or div layer to house it, then you can just paste the code in in that place . With WYSIWYG html editors, there is usually an HTML "object" box you can place in the desired location and just place the code in to that. Adobe Dreamweaver users can just insert an AP Layer (from the insert menu) and then paste the code in to that using the HTML code view pane.
There couldn't be anything easier than using a Twitter badge. And it's the glue that links your web 2.0 with your normal web. Don't miss the boat.