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5 Dead Simple Tactics For Those Struggling To Get Traffic From Twitter - DailyBlogTips

5 Dead Simple Tactics For Those Struggling To Get Traffic From Twitter - DailyBlogTips

5 Dead Simple Tactics For Those Struggling To Get Traffic From Twitter

Posted: 01 Oct 2014 09:18 PM PDT

For some people Twitter is simply a way to put their thoughts out about what's going on in their world. But for us bloggers Twitter is a valuable tool to get more people to read our content.

I won’t be able to count all those hours spent learning the trendiest Twitter Marketing tactics and then trying them out on my blog. But I can easily tell you how many of them brought me some results – no more than 20%.

So if you’ve been struggling lately to get some nice traffic from Twitter don’t lose your motivation just yet. Most of the tips that Social Media experts preach are nothing but a waste of time, but there are a few golden nuggets that are totally worth your time and effort.

1. Twitter Lets You Tweet Images – So Tweet Them!

Using Twitter for text is so passé! Most people are going to be drawn by a stunning picture rather than a great headline. But if you have both, you'll be golden.

Find the right visual to go along with your post and you're going to have people going to your website. This is particularly true if you are advertising a new product line, but it goes with any kind of update.

2. Make Your Content Easy to Share

The urge to tweet doesn’t last long. Once your reader feels he’d like to share your piece of content with his following, he will either do it the same second of forget about it forever.

If you don’t have a tweet button in a place where it’s easily accessible by your readers – you’re missing out. If you ask me – I prefer those that float with you as you scroll down. You can add them to your articles by using a plugin like Digg Digg.

3. Nail It With Your Headline

Think about the newspapers. What kind of headlines do they have? What makes you want to read them? Usually the catchy titles, right?

  • A Few Ways You Can Make Money Fast
  • 5 Easy Ways You Could Make Money Today. #3 Will Blow You Away!

Those two headlines are basically about the same thing, but the second one is more attention grabbing, right?

An average Twitter user is bombarded with hundreds of headlines per hour. Can you win his attention in this cruel war? If your headline is not enticing enough – you’re going to lose plenty of potential readers.

If you ask me – I’d use the dirtiest headline tricks to win some attention on Twitter. Go read some tips on writing killer headlines and practice them till you become a true ninja!

4. Give Them Some Evergreen Content

People always appreciate helpful content that never expires. If the content you publish will be relevant years from now – you’re going to enjoy a steady flow of Twitter traffic for just as long.

But creating this kind of content alone won’t break the deal. You should send some readers at it from time to time, so that they could tweet it out bringing even more readers to the piece.

You can do that by:

  • frequently referencing your evergreen content in newly published articles;
  • placing a link to it in the sidebar of your blog;
  • creating a “resource page” and listing all of your evergreen content there;
  • tweeting it manually or using a plugin like Revive Old Post or any other twitter automation tool;
  • scheduling it with tools like Hootsuite or TweetDeck.

5. Motivate People to Share Your Content

Don’t know if you’ve already noticed, but many bloggers have adopted a brand new tricky way to motivate their readers to tweet more often.

Other than having those floating tweet buttons to make their readers tweet the actual article they place short catchy takeaways within the article itself and make people tweet those as well.

This tactic is now known as “tweetable quotes” and I bet you’ve already seen some articles with tweetable quotes in them.

You might also noticed bloggers talking about ClickToTweet online service or TweetDis plugin for WordPress as ways to create those fancy-looking “tweetable quotes”.

But in case you’re new to this concept, I strongly recommend you to research it further.

All of these tips work together to help you drive more traffic from Twitter to your blog. Whether it's creating interesting and inspirational headlines, making it easy to tweet or motivating your readers to take action – you will find that they can provide you with a lot more traffic to your website than you were expecting to get.

Tim Soulo calls himself an MMA marketer (which stands for "Mixed Marketing Arts") and his focus is tactics and strategies that bring you either money or clients. Make sure to visit his personal blog at: BloggerJet.

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