Triple Your Site Traffic With Twitter And Your Blog

Social Media Marketing has taken the Internet world by storm with sites like Twitter and Facebook. Today website owners are discovering the benefits of tying in their blogs to their social bookmarking sites to create even more exposure. Basically, the way this works, each time a post is made to your blog an instant tweet is created and sent to your Twitter account. Each of your followers will receive that tweet creating a “viral tweet” for your blog post. It gets even better.

As I’m sure you already are aware, Twitter is a social bookmarking site that can send short messages of 140 characters or less to hundreds, thousands or millions of people within seconds. The best way to define it is that it’s a “micro blogging” tool. When Twitter first arrived a few years ago it quickly became popular as a way to communicate with your friends or family. Over the past two years it has emerged as a commercial tool used by home, small and large companies. Even the President has a Twitter account.

This where you, as a home business owner, come in. You can use Twitter to communicate to your followers sending them messages with all types of information. Of course you just can’t send tweet after tweet with sales pitches that will make you very unpopular and people will “unfollow” you. It’s much more subtle than that. That’s when you tie your blog up to your Twitter account, sending informational tweets on auto pilot each time a post is made on your blog.

How is this accomplished? It’s a really simple process so I can outline it here. First create your Twitter account and tie it’s theme to your blog’s theme. The next step is to install a special plug-in to your blog. Go to your plugin’s page and click the add a new plugin tab. Search for the “Twitter Tools” plugin, (Make sure it’s the free plugin from Alex King.) Install and activate it. You will need to set it up first by using the setting tab. You will now automatically create a tweet each time a post is created on your blog.

With each blog post you are creating an automatic tweet with a url back to your blog. Each individual follower now gets a tweet with each post that is made to your blog. This best feature is that it’s done automatically for you through the plugin creating pure organic traffic back to your blog.

If you are interested in pushing this a little bit further you can also put your Twitter account on auto pilot as well by actively looking for people that are tweeting about your niche and you can start to follow them. In most cases they will begin to follow you as well helping to create additional followers for your Twitter account. You can get some additional information on this at our www.twittasaurus.com website.

If you don’t have a Twitter account, get one now and start getting a landslide of traffic for free. By the way you can follow us, on Twitter, at www.twitter.com/HBRHomeBusiness

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