Increase On-line Traffic: Why You Shouldn’t Sell On Twitter, and What You Should Be Doing Instead!

 I didn’t really get Twitter when I was first introduced to it. Today I like it, not simply because it is a way to get valuable traffic, but because it’s a way of making valuable relationships. Indeed traffic is really all about relationships anyway.

If you go to my page on twitter http://twitter.com/stephen_bray and look at the tweets I’ve posted recently you’ll see that they aren’t all about Internet marketing, or even attempting to ’sell’ anything at all.

You see Twitter is a ‘micro blog’, and the way I see it, since it’s my blog I’ll write what I want on it. Of course I try not to offend, even if I do tweet about my life ‘as it is’

Once you treat Twitter as a micro blog, and use a range of media, I use my computer and cell-phone to let people know what I’m doing, Twitter becomes an essential habit in your lifestyle.

I got an e-mail from Alex Jeffreys, my Internet marketing coach, this morning telling me that he no longer answers his e-mail because of the amount of SPAM he’s receiving. I can reach him on Twitter instantly!

Some people overcomplicate Twitter, installing all manner of Twitter plug-ins and programs on their computers. There’s no need to do this. I built a following of over 800 people on Twitter in ten days simply by thinking ‘Google guidelines for websites‘ when posting tweets to Twitter. Quite simply I attempt to make amusing or informative Tweets that people will respond to.

Like any website or blog page, the headline, the first words of a tweet if you’re thinking about Twitter, should capture your reader’s imagination.

If you have a standard blog, or any website with an RSS feed, you can get your posts sent automatically to Twitter by signing up for an account at Twitterfeed.com. A link is posted automatically back to your website in your tweet when you do this.

There is more to Twitter than this, of course, but I’ll save some tips for another day. Today the weather’s fine and I’m hoping to engage in my passion for landscape photography. You’ll be able to follow my progress with this throughout the day at twitter.com/stephen_bray.

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