How to get more traffic using Twitter For Business
The micro bloging platform Twitter has produced a lot of attention in the last few months with a army of celebrities mentioning Twitter on their blogs , and marketing experts telling us we can leverage Twitter to new business leads , the talk about Twitter is hard to avoid . You probably have friends and work colleagues on Twitter and your suppliers may have invited you to their Twitter profile . That brings us neatly to my point . What are YOU doing about it for yourself?
It seems as though many people are still ignoring the potential of Twitter. That could be because it’s potential is disguised inbetween benile posts about breakfast choice.
Regardless of how you feel about Twitter personally, there are some great strategies you should consider 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. The smallest benefit will be extra chances for impressions , 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.
Many people perceive Twitter traffic as being an internal affair . A concept most Twitter directories promote . But with Twitter , the advantages of having your normal traffic join you on Twitter are huge . So valuable that we need to take action .
The easiest thing is to add a Twitter “badge” to your web presences . A badge is just an image saying who you are on Twitter with a link direct to your Twitter profile. In the videos , they go in to how you extend that concept , but we’ll stick to just the badge for now .
WHERE CAN I GET MY BADGE ?
You can get your own customised Twitter badge for zilcho from this site ;
http://wwwTwitterHug.com/twitter/category/badge/ – Free Twitter badge .
You paste the HTML in to your site.
It works great on WordPress blogs as a sidebar Text Widget. I’ve inserted them on my own blogs.
The Twitter badge is sealed in its own HTML tags so should reside happily 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.
Integrating your Twitter page with your existing web properties is an essential strategy. One you can do in the next 10 minutes, with a few mouse clicks,
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