Twitter

[Kitten]

Do any of you use Twitter to drive traffic to your site? Do you have any tips for optimizing your time there?

[SageMother]

I have a twitter account and have yet to use it. Personally, I don't see an advantage when it comes to drawing traffic. One in 1,000 people might read your entry, and several thousand more have to read it to get one visit.

I imagine there is someone out there who uses Twitter traffic successfully, but I can't see how the traffic would any different from that which flows from one of the smaller search engines.

[RFL1986]

I keep hearing about Twitter as well but don't really have a clue as to how to use it successfully. I perused their main site but ended up opting not to sign up for a membership considering I don't know if I could capitalize on it well enough.

[Kitten]

Sage, the key is to not spend a ton of time there. Leave it open in a tab, occasionally step in every so often throughout the day, build connections, etc.....and when you have a following, you're more likely to get people to click links you have posted. It won't happen overnight, though.

[Taggart]

I've never heard about it, but I'm curious about.

In some of the above posts, it kind of sounds to me like a new search engine and in others, it sounds like a social networking site.

I'll keep my eyes open for it.

[berlinlife06]

This is the first time I hear of Twitter. What is it all about? I am not a fan of getting traffic in "artificial" ways for my sites, but I'm always willing to learn something new. So, what's the deal?

[SageMother]

Kitten Wrote:Sage, the key is to not spend a ton of time there. Leave it open in a tab, occasionally step in every so often throughout the day, build connections, etc.....and when you have a following, you're more likely to get people to click links you have posted. It won't happen overnight, though.

Well that sounds a lot easier than I thought it would be!

I think I will set out a block of time, like a month, and try your suggestion to see what happens!

[SageMother]

I think it might be helpful to set up a little weekly schedule for social network activities.

My schedule would place social networks in the morning while I sip my coffee, leaving one tab open for the rest of the day as I write articles and do other promotional tasks. Otherwise I could end up wasting a lot of time just looking around a site to see what everyone else is doing!

[dolce_vita78]

I have heard a lot about Twitter from other friends online. I have heard both positive and negative comments about it. I looked it up and read about how it works. I haven't signed up with them yet as I do not see anything beneficial. Well, at least for me.

[Kitten]

SageMother Wrote:I think it might be helpful to set up a little weekly schedule for social network activities.

My schedule would place social networks in the morning while I sip my coffee, leaving one tab open for the rest of the day as I write articles and do other promotional tasks. Otherwise I could end up wasting a lot of time just looking around a site to see what everyone else is doing!

Yeah, definitely. People end up getting sucked into it, so that's why I think it's key to just leave it up and casually do it from time to time.