Blog Promotion – Twittering Successfully
Twittering Your Way To Success Part A
It has to be said that when it comes to blog promotion there is probably no better tool for the job than Twitter. The shear number of active members on Twitter (28,000,000) make this a formidable tool as it offers a potentially huge market to recieve your twittering & blog promotions. That said, there is still a price to be paid & that comes in the form of time !
Time needed & time taken in order to learn the system & how to use it to your best advantage. Using Twitter without the aid of additional tools or addons is really a non starter, it simply takes far too much time & the increase in traffic certainly does not warrant the time required to learn & run the system successfully.
However there are numerous addons or tools available which can make Twitter a far more attractive prospect when it comes to website or blog promotion & we are going to examine some of the better tools in this article.
Tools & Addons For Twitter
1. Twitter Blaster Pro <<< Download >>>
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This one takes pole position as far as I am concerned. Whilst there are other less elaborate friend adders available for use with Twitter accounts, I have not had anywhere near the success that I have had with Twitter Blaster pro. It not only allows you to gather ID’s to follow, but it has an auto follow facility as well as an auto messaging facility, which is ideal for keeping your followers upto date on what is taking place on your blog or website. On my one account with Twitter I have gone from 700 followers on 23-09-09 to around 4,300 followers on 22-11-09. Ok thats 2 months I know, but I do not use this tool daily, in fact I usually only use it once or twice per week. This is to help avoid being branded as a spammer. Grow too fast & you may draw attention that you do not really want !
2. TweetGlide <<<Download >>>
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This could pass as a big sister to Tweetdeck as it has the same general layout, however Tweetglide is more of a Rolls Royce version of Tweetdeck. It has the same style vertical windows (glides) as Tweetdeck, the big difference is you can earn advertising credits & actually run your own adverts using this program. Being a new program it is still in beta version at present and unfortunately Tweetglide has experienced some minor teething problems, but these minor irritations were soon ironed out & I think this is likely to become one of the best of the Twitter tool arsenal.
3. Tweetdeck <<<Download >>>
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A close 2nd place for Tweetdeck, simply because without Tweetdeck your account on Twitter can become an absolute nightmare to keep track of. The shear number of Re-Tweets, Mentions & Direct Messages is enough to make anyones head spin, but with Tweetdeck Twittering your way to success becomes a breeze. This tool is a major time saver when it comes to tracking what is happening or what is being said by your followers.
4. Twitter Karma <<< Visit Site >>>
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Although Titter Karma lacks the finess & sleek design of some of the other tools, this is a great little tool for house keeping & cleaning up your Twitter account ! Ok let me explain, each time you use Twitter Blaster Pro or any other friend adder software, it will add / follow people in bulk eg. 200 at a time usually. Unfortunately not all of these people will follow you back, therefore over a very short period of time, you can build up quite a bit of dead wood in your account. This is something to be avoided as an excess of non-followers can actually prevent you from following others. Twitter Karma needs to be used with a FireFox browser, however it does allow bulk follow, bulk unfollow & bulk block with just a couple of clicks. This is a great time saver as the time taken to manually remove say 50 non followers would be literally hours! This tool achieves the same in less than 5 minutes.
5. Twitter Grader <<<Visit Site >>>
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Run a check on your account and get it graded to see how it is progressing, the higher your score the better your account is doing! This is excellent for ensuring you keep things looking clean & non spammy, which you will really need to do if you expect to attract any sponsored advertising. Twitter Grader also offers a graph image to show your accounts performance over the previous weeks.
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I recommend using this site at least once per week for the simple reason that if there are any irregularities with your Twitter account, this site will inform you of the problem & how to remedy the situation.
This is just a small sample of the many addons & tools now available for Twitter users, however these are what I would class as the top of the pile & if used correctly can make blog promotion & Twittering successfully a piece of cake, which in turn is going to dramatically increase your traffic.
In Part B we will cover some of the do’s & don’ts of Twittering.
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