Twitter Tips and Tricks To Drive Traffic To Your Sites
When I first launched IncomeDiary, 90% of the traffic came from Twitter which resulted in earning over $5000 in my first month! That’s the great thing about Twitter, you can drive traffic almost instantly allowing you to make a quick income.
Every month I receive around 100,000 visitors to my websites just from Twitter alone and so can every single one of you! I know a lot of you enjoyed the tips I shared in my FREE eCourse about making money online blogging and driving traffic to your blog from Twitter so today I decided to do an updated twitter guide so you can benefit more from Twitter like myself. The great thing with Twitter is the people using it are so diverse, whatever your business is about, you can find people related to your business. I remember a friend was talking to me just before we went for dinner about how he thought Twitter was just for Internet Entrepreneurs and he wouldn’t be able to get people related to his business to follow him on Twitter. He runs a clothing company online offering some of the top brands for great prices. I quickly started a fashion focused Twitter account and before we went for dinner I started adding some followers. When we returned from dinner he had already had sales from being on Twitter for 1 hour. I was happy because he let me pick some shirts from his warehouse for showing him how to do it.
Over the last year, driving traffic from Twitter has changed a lot, you use to have to fit their doing everything manual which would take up a good part of your day. Now you can follow people, unfollow, pre schedule tweets and so much more with simple applications that do everything for you which is the true secret to driving insane traffic from Twitter on almost autopilot.
Quick Tip: I actually get my assistant to do all of my Twitter stuff using the two applications below.
TOOLS YOU’LL NEED
Tweet Adder
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Market Me Tweet
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Driving Traffic From Twitter To Your Blog
When I use Twitter, I use it so I can update my readers about what’s new on my websites and what I’m doing, just like everyone else seems to do. The different, everyone else has around 100 followers and so it doesn’t really make much of a difference to the traffic that goes to their website. I have around 80,000 followers now and I will share how you can quickly catch up.
Now before I go too far, I think it is important to say that while I am a huge fan of Twitter (being able to search real time about current happenings or events is awesome) – I should say that of late, Twitter has also been the subject of spammers or automated accounts set up to drive traffic to less than good websites. What I am about to reveal is not about being a spammer, it is about legitimate business people getting the best out of twitter and also about legitimate business people being fully up to speed on the techniques other Twitter users are using.
Lets get Started:
The first thing you need to do to get more followers is add more people, but adding 80,000 people must take for ever… Luckily there are tools that will allow you to automatically do most of your Twitter marketing, from adding people, deleting, tweeting and much more. I personally recommend two great pieces of software, Market Me Tweet or Tweet Adder, they both allow you to add more people, but Market Me Tweet also gives you a bunch of extra branding options.
This is the way I add people, it doesn’t mean it’s right, it’s just how I do it. Firstly find some big names in your industry that will have people following them that will also be interested in following yourself. For example if you have a Celebrity blog, you may want to go Perez Hilton’s twitter profile, then click on followers, now in the top left will be a button saying “Add All Followers”. It will automatically start adding one of his followers every 2 seconds till its added 1000. Then after 1000 people it will stop adding, this is because Twitter has a limit to only being able to add 1000 friends a day. Now you do this every day, usually at the same time, I recommend between 4 – 6pm (that is UK time) as this usually is the most active time on Twitter and you’re more likely to get people follow you back if they are online at the time you add them. Usually from adding 1000 people, I will get around 400 view my profile and click my website URL which means I get 400 highly targeted visitors in 24 hours. Bare in mind this is just the first point of contact, they will also revisit when I tweet and more people will visit when my followers retweet my tweets to their followers.
Perez Hiltons Twitter Followers
Finding Twitter profiles related to your niche can begin to get hard, when I struggle to find people related to my niche’s I use a website called WeFollow which basically lists top Twitter users in different groups, for example in Social Media category Mashable is the top profile, he runs the top blog about social media which means if you also have a blog about social media, you would do good to follow his followers.
Deleting People On Twitter Can Be Important
A lot of the stuff I’m about to share with you is stuff I don’t use myself because its not necessary for me but it is definitely something you should know about, even if you don’t use it all. The first thing about adding 1000 people a day is that you will be following 600 people more every day then will be following you back so your account will have a lot less people following it then your following which will not make you look very popular. With Twitter, you want to make yourself look as popular as possible so people will be more likely to follow you, think about it this way, would you follow someone who is following 500 people and only has 200 people following him back? probably not. But if the person is following 500 people and has 50,000 following him back then he will look like he has something good to say so you will be a lot more likely to follow him, so social proof is really important! Below are some tips and tricks you can use to cut down the amount of people you follow on Twitter.
Automatically un-follow everyone who doesn’t follow you back is the first step to getting down the amount of people you follow. Now I don’t recommend you do this every day as it won’t give your new followers enough time to follow you and check your profile out so you should do it perhaps twice a week. The script you should use for this is Twitter Mutuality, you can unfollow everyone not following you or choose to unfollow everyone.
The next thing I do and do recommend you all do is use a site called UnTweeps which will allow you to automatically un-follow anyone you are following who hasn’t updated their profile in a few days, you may choose any amount of days you like but I think a fair amount of days would be 7 because for some reason they could just not of been able to get online. This is a great tool because if they haven’t updated then they won’t be seeing your Tweets, a lot of them will be following you back so it will make you look even popular because they won’t un-follow you because they don’t use anymore.
If you do get to the point where your following 40,000 people and you realize you really don’t want to be following all these people, then to delete everyone is really simple. Its something I don’t 100% agree with but I do see this happen a lot and then people will think your super popular. If you want to do this, the tool to use is Twollow which will allow you to delete 2000 people at a time.
Using Twitter and Blogging Together
As I mentioned above, using Twitter to drive traffic to your blog is super important and is one of the reasons for my success. To get more out of Twitter, you want to promote Twitter on your blog in a few different ways. One of the most well known ways is to add a TweetMeMe button which includes a counter of how many times people have retweeted your blog post and it allows other people to automatically retweet it themselves. To use this counter and others TweetMeMe have, click here.
For those lazy people or for those who like everything automated this next resource is really good. If you pre-publish your blog posts like me when you go away on vacation or when you have guest posters and won’t be around then you can automatically tweet when new posts are published on your WordPress blog. Twitter Poster will take the title of a new post and will submit it to the Twitter account specified in the options. It will also add the link back to the post, allowing your twitter followers to access the post details
Other Twitter Tools I Use
Managing 80,000 Twitter followers is impossible, you can’t see what your real friends are doing and the updates that are important. For me its important to see what Young Entrepreneurs, Gurus and Web Designers are saying so I set up a group for each and added the necesary people to each group so I don’t miss a tweet – you can do this using TweetDeck.
As a lot of you know, I went away for a couple weeks and didn’t really update my sites for a month, over that time I still wanted to boost my traffic so I asked my VA to pre publish 100 tweets, a new tweet had to be sent every 2 hours and once the 100 tweets have been published, just repeat. To do this I used pre-publishing software, TweetLater. You can also use TweetLater to send automatic messages when someone new follows you, welcoming them and recommending your website. Although this is great to do, it isn’t really effective anymore as it seems everyone does it (I have over 10,000 messages, I guess 9,950 are automatic).
To Our Success,
Michael Dunlop
PS. What are your honest thoughts about Twitter because everyone has different opinions I would like to invite you to voice them so everyone gets the full picture and perhaps I could prove you wrong 
About Michael Dunlop
I'm Michael, I created this site back in 2009 and since then it's received over a million visitors from all around the world. We offer tutorials and inspiration for online entrepreneurs wanting to achieve more.
145 comments so far… Leave a reply
Andy
August 24, 2009 10:17 AM
Yeh man, twitter is awesome. We do get so much traffic. Great post to help out other blogs!
Daniel Matthews
August 24, 2009 10:20 AM
Some really great tips and tricks here, Like you said these tools aren't for everybody but when used correctly can probably make a huge difference. TweetDeck is my saviour! Putting people into groups means I don't miss a thing, even when following a large amount of people!
baloot
August 24, 2009 10:30 AM
well, i guess this time i will optimize my traffic using twitter. thank you micheal. cheers!
milsum
August 24, 2009 2:23 PM
yeah, lets do it together my mate... hehehe..
Megan
August 24, 2009 10:35 AM
I've dabbled with Twitter as a way to boost traffic but I've only ever promoted myself to those who are already following me, hence are already probably fans of my site. Actively searching for new people to follow/followers in my niche myself is so glaringly obvious yet had thus far escaped me! Thanks for all the advice.
Alif Rachmawadi
August 24, 2009 10:42 AM
Awesome tips. I have done some of them, but after read this post, I have to try new one and optimize it. Thanks Michael!
Prasanth Chandra
August 24, 2009 10:49 AM
Some cool tips here. I use most of those services you mentioned above. I will try your grease monkey trick. Lets see if it will do any good to me.. Follow me @pcsbox
Issa
August 24, 2009 10:56 AM
There are a lot of useful information in this article and I am raring to try them. Thanks!
Aman
August 24, 2009 11:07 AM
Thanks a lot Michael.. a very useful information which i am gonna implement from this very moment. Thanks again... i was searching for this information since long... :)
ranklotdotcom
August 24, 2009 11:13 AM
This article is a great resource. Thank you Michael!
Kateyboo
August 24, 2009 11:23 AM
THese are great tips - will implement this now! Have been trying to get my twitter followers up so that the traffic can flow through to my blog and this advice will definitely do this! Thanks!
Muzi Mohale
August 24, 2009 11:33 AM
From my experience, I've found that building followers through an automated process leads to a lot of junk following one, without any value to your website/blog, irrespective that you selected to follow a crowd/group from a closely related niche blog/website since that doesn't guarantee that the list itself is 100% perfect. To me this has led to a growing list of automated direct messages which have no value to me at all that I receive daily and which is a serious pain.
Josh Stauffer
August 24, 2009 2:55 PM
I second this.
Allahverdi Suleymanov
August 24, 2009 11:47 AM
But, Friend Adder Doesn't work?
Randy Kemp
August 24, 2009 12:15 PM
Michael: Thank you for sharing some great Twitter tips. I have set aside some time today, to utilize the tools you recommended. Randy
Nemo
August 24, 2009 12:21 PM
The greasemonkey script no longer works because Twitter updated its interface.
Michael Dunlop
August 24, 2009 2:59 PM
Hello Nemo, I updated this script so it does work with the new Interface... Michael
Pete
August 24, 2009 12:47 PM
Can't seem to download the free friend adder, it just brings up a ton of javascript. check the link http://www.incomediary.com/twitter_friend_adder.user.js
Luke
August 24, 2009 7:29 PM
Oops. I was in my Chrome browser. Works great in FF! Surprising, I know :) Thanks!
WPSMASH
August 24, 2009 3:40 PM
Michael thanks for great tips !
khalid
August 24, 2009 7:16 PM
Hi Michael My twitter account has been suspended, why I dont know. I was having some 700 follower, sent an application to reconsider to open my account. khalid
Michael Dunlop
August 24, 2009 7:25 PM
Hey Khalid, When did you do this? Typically I don't regret that you just go out and follow 1000 people and have 0 followers becauses its obviously build for spam, slowly build it into a list that works. Michael
khalid
August 25, 2009 4:57 AM
should I open a new account in twitter or wait for the response of twitter people ?
Roland
August 24, 2009 7:25 PM
Great post Michael. Keep up the good work.
Luis Lopez
August 24, 2009 7:39 PM
Excellent technique Michael, but I can't download the script it opens just all the code on a new tab... what can I do
Luis Lopez
August 24, 2009 7:48 PM
Again me, is ok it working, just relaunch firefox and go to install script then enable the greasy monkey.
Michael Dunlop
August 24, 2009 7:50 PM
Good to hear its working. Don't over do it, slowly build it up or you may get into trouble. I have never done but its just a warning as people do. Michael
Indo Contest
August 24, 2009 8:21 PM
Great Post Mike. Thanks for Twitter Friend Adder script. I'm using it now....
Theresa
August 25, 2009 12:02 AM
Sounds like there may be some glitches to the process. Not sure that I want to try something without it being tried and true.
Michael Dunlop
August 25, 2009 10:00 AM
Hello, There are no glitches, just everyone was new to doing this so had to learn, they are all fine now and understand the script. Michael
Gary A. Parenti
August 25, 2009 1:01 AM
Hello Again Michael, Another Great Post by one of the best .YOU!.I also wrote a small post on my Blog about Twitter.com.Here it is...As Follows... I know everyone on Twitter doesn`t have the time to check out every little detail on the Twitter Site , so I found this Secret location for you that haven`t found it as of yet.This is what you do. Scroll all the way down on your home page in your Twitter account..Then you come to a little narrow tool bar or task bar. Then you click on the API Link. when you are directed to the next page or as I call it, Twitters back office.,you then look on the left side of this page until you see Twitter fan wiki.Then you click the twitter fan wiki link... When directed to the next page or further into the back office, you look for APPS. This APPS Link should be the first link on the left side of the page. Click the APPS Link and from there you will see so much information that is related to Twitter and what Twitter is up to.Everyone interested in Twitter should look into this Back Office. Like You Say, To Our Success, Gary A. Parenti
ide
August 25, 2009 1:48 AM
Great Article. Very useful for me. Thanks Mike
arsha @ brand. build. sell.
August 25, 2009 3:45 AM
awesome tips and tricks! just curious. how do you stop (or pause) the script once you have clicked "add all followers"?
arsha @ brand. build. sell.
August 25, 2009 3:49 AM
disregard! i figured it out. thanks! the cancel button was stuck for a bit! still an awesome script though!
JoniB
August 25, 2009 4:11 AM
Thank you so much for the wealth of information on Twitter that you provide!! I know that Tweeting has driven a lot of customers my way by triple if not more. I got my daughter on Twitter and her traffic also quadrupled but she won't admitt to me that I helped her? Mother daughter dynamic is difficult!! LOL Oh well it is good to be helpful in this world. I do believe that what goes around comes around. You do receive in proportion to what you give in this life and not just online. I will be studying a lot more about what you have to say. I have had a lot of viewers to my online shop but not necessarily customers? I think you hit it on the head when you say that we need to choose our followers wisely. I have just started to figure this out and with what you have said here in this article is awesome!!!!!!!!!! Thanks so very much for paying it forward!!!! Joni B :-)
Michael Dunlop
August 25, 2009 2:30 PM
Hello Joni, Great to hear your feedback, I know that trouble with people not giving credit where credit is due ;-) With your online store, look for one related to yours and then find there followers. For example Zappos and ASOS, two huge online stores have a great following on twitter. Michael
Vijay
August 25, 2009 4:57 AM
Yes, Michael, Twitter is very usefull in getting new people to know you. I have been building folowers list thru twitter and I need to succeed like you in blogging. Great help, thanks Michael.l
shufaad
August 25, 2009 6:43 AM
Great Resource! I'm very sure to have a try! Thanks Michael!
Nick
August 25, 2009 10:40 AM
Michael, Thanks for the post. Let's say I use the "Add All Followers" option and like you said I follow 1000 new people. What happens in the day after that? Does the script know to continue from the last person I've added? Or should I seek for another popular twitter user?
Jaap van Goor (Promanent - The Netherlands)
August 25, 2009 2:20 PM
Michael, good solid tips. I am new to using Twitter so your tips help. I can recommend Tweeterfeed.com, with this free tool you can add a RSS Feed to be published on your Twitter accounts. I have one feed from my weblog connected to Twitter and for our website and online shop we do the same with product updates that we automatically publish in a feed and this links through to the Twitter accounts that belong to these websites. The Twitterfeed dashboard shows how many times a feed was clicked.
Michael Dunlop
August 25, 2009 2:29 PM
Hey Jaap, Thanks for the great share, will use that resource myself for a couple blogs of mine. Michael
Lynette
August 25, 2009 3:02 PM
Michael, Thanks for the Twitter tips. Thanks to your suggestion, I have started using TweetDeck for the first time. It really changes the experience and is very useful. Best regards, Lynette www.picpocketbooks.com
Josh Lam
August 25, 2009 3:31 PM
And yet you still only have 6000 followers?
Michael Dunlop
August 25, 2009 3:37 PM
Hey Josh, I have around 80,000 ~ thought you knew as ive blogged with you on my popular account. Your talking about my personal account which has 7,000 followers. Michael
Bill
August 25, 2009 8:43 PM
Dear Michael, If I follow the above steps for following people above, will it get me past the 2,000 that Twitter currently has as my limit? I have about 820 people following me and I am following about 1,999. I know that if I keep following others I will receive a message saying "limit reached". Does this process above with the FF and plug-ins get around that? Thanks for your help. - Bill
Michael Dunlop
August 25, 2009 11:14 PM
Hello Bill, The plug-in doesn't get round this, once you get close to 2000 followers it will start to let you go past 1999 following. Just take it easy and slowly at the start. MIchael
Bill
August 26, 2009 1:11 PM
Michael, I can't seem to get more than 800 followers, it's kinda up and down hovering around 800. I feel like I will never get to 2,000 at this piont. I am currently following 1,997 people. Do you have any advice, I'd greatly appreciate it! Thanks.
Michael Dunlop
August 26, 2009 1:30 PM
Hello Bill, You need to unfollow those who don't follow you back using the tools above and then start following more, that is how you get over this problem. Michael
Ahmed El.Hussaini
August 25, 2009 10:40 PM
Thank you so very much for well organized article. Really helpful.
Luke Bond
August 25, 2009 11:53 PM
Great post Micheal! Another tool I might add which is very useful with Twitter is DM whacker. Its a little script a bit like greasemonkey which will delete all your direct message. It's quite handy as if you use your script to add everyone, you get lots of auto responses which fills your inbox right up. Try out http://dcortesi.com/tools/dm-deleter/
Yves
August 26, 2009 1:19 AM
This was a great post. I wasn't aware of the "unTweeps" site... very handy. As I'm just really starting to learn about building targeted traffic I'm grateful that you as well as some other bloggers post such great content. Thanks Michael!
GoBusiness101
August 26, 2009 8:49 AM
The trick here, is keep following the most followed tweets account. Because they are also seeking whom to follow at random.
Lin Klaassen
August 26, 2009 1:52 PM
I am very thankful for the people like you who are a twitter success and share your knowledge with us who wish to follow in your footsteps. Twitter opens a world that few would have seen possible ten years ago. I appreciate your generous sharing,
Daniel
August 27, 2009 8:15 PM
Thanks Michael for a great tip. Question: Is there a similar resource for extracting friends off of Facebook?
Brian
August 28, 2009 6:03 PM
It appears the GreaseMonkey script isn't working again.
Michael Dunlop
August 29, 2009 10:31 PM
Hello Brian, I don't know what problem you are having with it but it works for everyone else. Michael
Will
August 29, 2009 12:58 AM
Michael, you are brilliant. This worked perfectly. I am seeing a 10% conversion rate from follow them to follow me. Thank you.
Leslie Nicole
August 29, 2009 12:15 PM
Hey Michael, your writing is quite good, but typos get by the best of us. Just a wee correction: "Bare in mind this is just the first point of contact" Should be BEAR in mind. ;-) Really smart site. Good guides.
Leslie Nicole
August 29, 2009 12:23 PM
Great tips, here Michael. I was wondering if it's smart to un-follow everyone not following you? Some people / sites (like this one) don't follow all of their followers, but I want their updates. Also, how should you handle the amount of followers? I know it's polite to follow those who follow you, but honestly I don't know how I can make real connections if I try to follow 5000 people. So as you start to unfollow people, will they dump you too, or do they just not notice?
Michael Dunlop
August 29, 2009 10:30 PM
Hello Leslie, Important question, what I do is have two accounts, use on for personal who I follow people I want to follow. The other account I use to follow everyone related to my niche and website. Michael
Andrew
August 29, 2009 1:23 PM
great guide! about reading updates from real friends and followers, i preferred having saparate accounts; one for real friends and other for business.
Michael Dunlop
August 29, 2009 3:35 PM
Hello Andrew, Exactly what I do, works very well. Michael
Shreejana Hickman
August 29, 2009 9:04 PM
Thanks Michael, I used Twitter Mutality after reading this post, and dropped the unfollowers like a bad disease!! Now the ratio is much better! Next I want to try adding followers from popular twitter users in my niche..will see how it works.
Michael Dunlop
August 31, 2009 1:28 PM
Hello Shreejana, Great to hear, hope everything works out well for you. Michael
Issa@youwanttoberich.com
August 31, 2009 10:18 AM
This has been very useful to me. I just can't seem to install the friend adder... I would love to automate adding friends.... but great post and keep up the good work!
Michael Dunlop
August 31, 2009 1:27 PM
Hello Issa, What seems to be the problem? Michael
JonatsGonats
September 3, 2009 4:16 AM
Cool tip. I am trying this out right now and it looks awesome! Great neat trick my man :D
Richard
September 3, 2009 7:36 PM
I also get lots of traffic from twitter and i am a fan of twitter, i daily spend approx 2-3 hours on twitter.. You share good tips of twitter .. :)
Dedy
September 4, 2009 3:17 PM
Thanks for the great tips Michael !, I directly did what you have suggested!...:-)
cbrown
September 6, 2009 12:59 PM
cool tips..thanks mate
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