Twitter Followers – Increase Your Twitter Followers The Easy Way

I recently created my twitter account specifically for this blog. Initially I was too embarrassed to even put my twitter count as it was only showing 40 followers. That figure was pathetic.

I always wondered how none celebrities ever manage to increase their twitter followers by the thousands. It would be an achievement if my followers could even reach the figure of 1000 people. Everyone knows that the more followers you get, the chances of someone visiting your blog increases. Twitter has become one of the best way to increase blog traffic.

After doing much research online I stumbled upon a website called Twitter Follower. This website is create by John Chow.

So what is the big deal with Twitter Follower?

Have you ever encountered the problem when you followed someone but that person does not even bother to follow you? The good news is that Twitter Follower requires each participant to follow people that are currently following them. Sounds confusing? It’s actually quite simple. It’s basically based on the concept of “You follow me, I follow You”. That’s all to it.

It takes less than 5 minutes to set up an account on Twitter Follower. Once you are done, you will be able to see a massive list of Twitter users. All you need to do is start following everyone, but make sure you follow them back or else you might be taken out from the list.

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Now for the big question, does it really work?

Just check out my Twitter count. Right now it’s hovering around 700++ followers. Previously I had only 40 followers. Therefore, if you want to increase your followers, Twitter Follower is the way to go.

June 18, 2009 | Filed Under Blogging Tips, Traffic Tips | 12 Comments 

So You Think You Can Comment?

Believe it or not, commenting on other people blogs can be a really good way of generating quality traffic and advertising your blog to general public.

Why should you comment?

1) The more comments you leave, the better chance that someone will visit your site.

2) The best part about a comment is that it gives you the ability for someone to link to your post by you just posting a response to a post.

3) As time goes by, you tend to build up a network with other blogs owners. They will in return provide comment on your pages as well. This will in return form a strong bond between these blog owners.

4) Regular readers of a blog or even the owner will eventually remember your name if you start to comment on a regular basis. In a subtle way, it will actually work to your advantage as you are slowly beginning to build your brand.

Where Should you comment?

Remember, you want to send quality traffic to your blog. Therefore the readers of your blog should be interested in your niche. It would not make much sense if you expect readers from a furniture website to visit your blog that is related to ways to make money online.

Therefore it is critical that you should only provide comments on blogs that is related to your niche. Although commenting on other non related niche blogs may send traffic to your blog, but ask yourself this question, will the reader be interested with the contents of your post? The answer is no. That is because what you have written is of not what the reader is looking for.

Provide comment like how you would expect them.

Here are some very simple tips to help you be a better commenter on any blogs:

1) There should be a purpose to a comment and to provide additional value to the post. The comment could be insightful or even base on a personal experience. Regardless it should provide a value to the post.

2) Don’t bid around the bush. There are some readers that love to write comments that are longer than the original post. However if you examine the comments in detail, it can actually be sum up in a couple of sentences. Make your comments short and sweet. It is much easier for people to remember.

3) Spam stinks. Never ever put in your post link in your text comment unless the owner of the blog has already installed a plugin that automatically detects your last blog post. It is not polite to steal someone else spot light by advertising your site.

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4) If you think that a link can be beneficial to the owner of the blog and the other readers out there, then you can it. For example, the blog owner might have written a post about a certain wordpress plugin. However you have read on another website on how to further improve this plugin. You can obviously provide the link to this information in your comment.

Basically it all comes down to common sense. Just ask yourself, how would you like people to comment on your blog? If you do not want certain kind of comments appearing on your blog, you should not expect owners from other blogs to accept that kind of comments as well.

June 5, 2009 | Filed Under Make Money Online, Traffic Tips | 22 Comments 

5 Quick Tips For Blog Traffic

It’s no brainer that the more traffic that your blog has, the better your blog exposure. Let assume that you already have a blog and your niche might be how to make money online or about photography. No matter what your blog is about this simple tips will help you increase traffic to your site.

1) Tag Your Keywords

Ensure that you include you keywords in the following tags:
- Title tags: The most important place to include your keywords
- Header Tags: They are the next tags that are important to the search engine. Place your primary or/and your secondary keywords here.
- Alt Tags: This tag is used to provide a text description for a graphic. Most people either forget or choose to ignore this tag.

2) Daily Content

One of the reasons why search engines love blogs so much is because of the constantly new contents. Engine spiders look for new contents and index it. Try to make it an effort to update your blog at least once a day.

3) Backlinks! Backlinks! Backlinks!

Some experts say that content is not always king, but links to your website is. Backlinks are important because this is what the search engine use to leverage your blog popularity and credibility. Therefore you should always find ways to increase your backlinks.

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4) Be A Social Butterfly

There are just so many social networking website out there that can help you to generate traffic to your blog. Facebook and Twitter can be very effective tools to generate links to your site. However do not spam these site by asking people to visit your blog. Instead participate actively by providing suggestions or comments that is beneficial to everyone.

5) Advertisement

If you have the budget, you can consider the use PPC as a source of advertisement. PPC is often used because its easy to set up and allows the advertiser to set a daily budget. However you should ensure that you are making more on your returns then the cost for the PPC advertisement.

What are you doing to increase your blog traffic?

June 1, 2009 | Filed Under Make Money Online, Traffic Tips | 6 Comments