Comment posted on Make Money with Twitter by Andreas@Online Advertising
A specific resource that can make you realistic cash (if you have a relevant/quality number of followers) with twitter is fiverr.com, for example you could offer to tweet X times on twitter for 5$.
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- My Perfect Recipe to Building a Popular Blog - Step by Step
As you said, the bottom line is really hard work, writing (or getting written) lots of quality content that targets the niche and helps answering common user questions and problems. Also, with no or not much marketing budget, one needs to come up with creative traffic generating ideas that utilize modern tools and services such as your facebook comment circle. - This Is Not Your Everyday SEO
Start Engaging Others essentially also means that your content should go viral with the help of family, friends, fans and followers referring their friends to your page and so on. - How to Twitterize Your Brand the Right Way
Great article and increasing brand and authority is even more important in 2011 since google and bing are using retweets and likes as part of their real time results ranking algo. - DoFollow Express: Is Traffic Generation Cafe Getting Off?
Linking out to spammy and penalized sites is bad for both new and established blogs.
It all comes down to on whether or not you are able to maintain your blog hygiene with your newly achieved success and are able to control the target urls you are linking out to.
It also depends on whether you think that your traffic is self-sustainable on a certain lower level as some contributors may leave if you say good-bye to dofollow links.
On the other hand, if your success is largely based on your facebook comment circles that are not based on do-follow, the decision may be easier. - 5 Traffic Generation Strategies I Stay Away From
I agree that alexa is not the best way to measure traffic levels, especially when its not compared with other metrics.
I have published a new site with pagerank 0 but several thousands of pages which instantly got a better alexa rank than a page with 10 pages, but actually received the same number of visitors.
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So how many tweets is to many?
When you start getting angry messages and start loosing followers much quicker than you are gaining them, then you’ll know.
On a more serious note, Ray, I would stick to no more than 20-25 tweets per day, only about 25% of them are your own content.
Welcome to my blog!
Hello
Nice blog, i saw your articles on hectorjcuevas and i liked them a lot
that’s the reason i came on this blog.
I’m so gonna start using Twitter for my own good. Thank you for the share.
Take a look if you’re borred
) Estilo
Mihai@Fashion´s last blog ..Fall Winter 2010-2011 Advertising Campaigns!
Thanks for coming by, Mihai - I did go by your blog and really enjoyed it.
Let me know how Twitter is working out for you!
Ana
It seems that Twitter is the biggest thing around now.Twitter this,Twitter that.
I must have around 5,000 followers and I haven’t a clue about how to get in touch with them all!
Joanne´s last blog ..A New Home for the WordPress Trademark — Matt Mullenweg
I had no idea either, Joanne; until I made an effort to learn how to do it right that is.
Ana
Great points about Twitter. I have been on twitter for a long time, slowly gaining followers and followees, but I really haven’t “done much” with it.
I do like your ideas though, personally I have always been offput but too many of the self serving adds on twitter. The zen-like approach of the way to make money is not to try to make money is a great one!
Steve@Lifestyle Design´s last blog ..Does College Internet Marketing Success
My opinion on ANY marketing strategy out there is learn how to do it well or don’t waste your time doing it at all.
And that’s exactly what I did with Twitter. Love reaping the results!
Thanks, Steve!
Hi Ana,
Wow I did’nt know the fact for you that Twitter bring the most people to your blog. It seem that your course on Twitter works very well, nice for you!!
I agree on the fact that with Twitter it’s hard to get the attention of others… We only submit a little Sentence and we have to wake attention of all of our followers and them to retweet it… Not very easy task…
Thanks
Dave B
Rank Builder´s last blog ..Rank Builder Review
Good chance to work on your copywriting skills though, Dave!
Ana
Ana @ Traffic Generation Cafe´s last blog ..Treasure Island of Link Building- How to Find the Best Links Every Time
I just discovered fiverr about a week ago and, boy, is it a cool site!
You are very right, Andreas; that’s a great way to make money on Twitter!
Thanks for the suggestion.
Ana
Ana @ Traffic Generation Cafe´s last blog ..Treasure Island of Link Building- How to Find the Best Links Every Time
A specific resource that can make you realistic cash (if you have a relevant/quality number of followers) with twitter is fiverr.com, for example you could offer to tweet X times on twitter for 5$.
I never really thought about monetizing twitter but Harris does make some good points here. Clearly providing value first has got to be key, but I like that he talked about getting them focused on you - hard to do in the Twittosphere, but any tips can only be a good thing.
I am building up my following, almost 5000 atm, and it results in around 500 visits to my blog per month so definitely potential to monetize that traffic source.
Thanks for the post Harris, and thanks Ana for posting it here so I could get my coffee AND learn a thing or two about the little blue bird
Alex@niche site marketing´s last blog ..What the Blog are you talking about
I firmly believe that any traffic can be monetize, it’s just a matter of picking the right approach. I personally funnel all traffic through my blog and take it from there.
I think you take the same approach, Alex.
Ana
PS How’s coffee in Australia?
Ana @ Traffic Generation Cafe´s last blog ..Mistery of Google PageRank Solved
Ha! It’s 3:14am as I write this.
Does that answer the coffee question
PS: Check the comment luv thread below - I gave you some awesome link love!!
Alex@niche site marketing´s last blog ..Missed Church Have some link love instead
Love it!
I must’ve been at church when you posted it.
No, seriously.
Ana
PS I love coffee so much (got addicted to it once a had a child), maybe I shoulod start writing about that as well. Food for thought…
Ana @ Traffic Generation Cafe´s last blog ..Mistery of Google PageRank Solved
Great analogies woven in here and the point is so true.
I experimented with promoting affiliate links on Twitter some time ago. My conclusion was that you’ll get some clicks, but people won’t often buy because it’s too much of a jump from Twitter to the capture or sales page. A bit like approaching someone on a busy street and trying to sell them something.
Far better to build more rapport and connection and share more value by inviting them to your blog first, as you are doing Ana.
Jym
Jym´s last blog ..MLM Blog- The Center Of Your Strategy
You are right, Jym; you’ve got to bridge the gap between Twitter and a sales page and your blog is perfect for that.
Ana
Ana @ Traffic Generation Cafe´s last blog ..Treasure Island of Link Building- How to Find the Best Links Every Time
Hi
Twitter is the best and Harris really knows great stuff about it.I check few post and they were useful
Thanks For Sharing
-Abhishek
Glad to hear it, Abhishek.
Ana
Ana @ Traffic Generation Cafe´s last blog ..17 Traffic Building Tips from Some of the World’s Most Popular Bloggers
Wow, Harris, really nice tip! I think most bloggers need to build a solid number of followers and provide value to them first before he can promote any offer or tell people to click on the link and visit his blog. There are also many other ways to monetize through Twitter as well as Pay for Tweet, CPA, etc.
Mike´s last blog ..Full review- What do you need to know about Traffic Travis SEO Software
Very true, Mike. Value, value, value. If you do that, an occasional promotional link will be accepted with respect rather than unfollow button.
Ana
Ana @ Traffic Generation Cafe´s last blog ..How To Drive Traffic The Google Way
Now that is a great testimonial for Harris you gave.
So many twitterer’s have links that go directly to sales pages and I always wonder “does that work?”
Wow, most of your blog traffic comes from twitter, good for you.
Peter
Peter Fuller MBA´s last blog ..Just Smile
Twitter happened to be the first strategy I learn to generate traffic and got quite good at it (pretty much followed Harris’ course).
I don’t use it as a direct money making mechanism of any kind, strictly for traffic. However, many of my tweets do end up on my list, so monetizing that way is not out of question.
Thanks, Peter!
Hi Harris,
Thanks for sharing the on the money summation.
Yes, well said about the New York rush hour. I liken twitter to the Wild West of social media.
To make money on twitter, don’t try to make money on twitter. It sounds like a Zen koan, but it’s true. Trying to make money leads to silly, competitive marketing practices which shoot you in the foot and turn off your followers.
Offer value, build a network and cross promote. Toss in the pitch tweets sparingly and you can prosper.
Ryan Biddulph
Ryan Biddulph´s last blog ..Personal Development - How Do You Feel Around Opulence
Very well said, Ryan, and definitely a great point.
Ana
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