Comments on: The Traffic Generation Kick-off: Twitter Traffic

By: Gerard Sanfourche

Gerard Sanfourche — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:43:38 +0000

I totally agree with your post Adam, and I think we should have as many followers as possible. As we don’t really expect a lot of them to constantly read the tweets, as well as we don’t read all the tweets we receive. I don’t have numbers but I am pretty sure the percentage of reading is very low. So I think it’s necessary to repeat the tweets along the day. ” within twitter’s rules” of course.

By: Adam Bshero

Adam Bshero — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:12:18 +0000

Hey Simon,

Thanks for the comment…

You will be extremely surprised how many results you will from just asking others for a favor!

Be sure to come back and post some of your results!

By: simon

simon — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:08:11 +0000

Like this site !

Started my IM career 3 months ago. Made lots of mistakes but have 20 odd niche blogs setup todate. I added a nice big request to tweet my blog (added it to all my blogs) today in the hope that if someone likes the blog they will tweet it to their followers. Has to
be worth a go !

By: Glenn Sojourner

Glenn Sojourner — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:16:15 +0000

Adam,
I agree with you about the quantity of followers and two or more accounts. Focusing on niches is fine but you should have an account where you are looking for as many followers as you can get a day within the limits of Twitter. You cannot count on Twitter users filling out a bio with all their interests so you go wide and get as many followers as possible. Just because someone is an Internet Marketer and has 25,000 followers, it doesn’t mean that everyone of those followers are Internet Marketers. I just means he has a lot of followers. Marketing to 25,000 followers will probably achieve as good if not better results than marketing to a narrow niche with only 500 followers.

By: The one I got

The one I got — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:34:17 +0000

Twitter is good and bad for IM in so many ways. Today I see too many bots out there that don’t follow you back and give you the twitter benefit when they post from a feed and never actually visit the site. The good can be though that you find these peoples sites and end up contacting them via email, phone, etc…

By: Adam Bshero

Adam Bshero — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:34:45 +0000

Thanks for letting me know about the links… I’ve fixed them.

To address your question:

Most people who are using twitter are not experts or celebrities. If you are using twitter for traffic generation tactics, then you’re going to want as many followers as possible.

Remember, you’re just trying to get your content out in front of your niche.

If you are worried about your authority or expert status, then I highly recommend you create two separate accounts. One for traffic generation, one for personal use.

When it comes time to post your links, what I have found has worked the best is to tweet in blocks of 3-5 a couple of times a day. Your messages will stick out more.

Additionally, I am not telling anyone to spam twitter. Be sure to follow all their terms of use. I only make 15-20 tweets per day.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:52:52 +0000

First, above on this page in the “three previous posts” links you have two of them the same.
Now about Twitter. I do believe that if you are expert in your area if interest/knowledge then a number of followers should be higher then you are following. Also, from marketing perspective the more followers the better.
I can say that twitting is working technics to get initial traffic surge but you can have it for a one-time only. Keeping posting the same link/s to generate more traffic will looks like spamming to your followers and also will drastically reduce your expert status as well.
The only question is – How to get them without compromising your expert status and without using “mass production” spamming technics to avoid a ban from Twitter? It could be interesting to hear your opinion ion that matter.

By: Kelly Lenihan

Kelly Lenihan — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:42:14 +0000

Hmm, I tend to follow people on Twitter that I find most interesting, but didn’t pay attention to the other half of the equation – people in my niche who may find me interesting! Thanks for the post.
@kellylenihan

By: Adam Bshero

Adam Bshero — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:16:52 +0000

Have a mixture of both. I would stick to accounts that seem like they are following quite a few people. Remember, your goal here is to get them to follow you back. Many big accounts do not follow back a lot of people.

By: j

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:59:36 +0000

Hey There

What do you think is best, following small or big accounts in tweeter ?

Thanks for sharing,