Today I am going to discuss a tutorial I wrote a while back about using twitter to receive traffic to your website or blog. This helps to build on ranking when you have a new site. We all know that SEO takes time and work everyday. It can take a while to actually see desired results. What you need is to start getting traffic right from the get go.  What better method than using twitter?

The first step in this process is to have your website ready and published on the net. Now let’s drive some traffic.

Create a twitter account

You can easily set up a twitter account in 1 minute. Simply shoot on over to twitter.com and register for a new account. It is quick and free. I would suggest customizing your twitter with a background and site logo within the background.

Getting quick follows

Now we need to get you some followers. The most you can add is about 1500-2000 followers in a day. I would add about 1400 just to stay off of twitters radar. As more people add you back, you can add more followers.  You can simply search for people that are related to your niche and manually add them or you can shoot on over to buzzom.com which let’s you easily target your audience by users who are related to your niche. Build up about 1400-2000 followers right from get go.

I want to stress the fact that you need to target followers who relate to your websites niche. You need to do so because, if you are adding people who are interested in let’s say for example “technology” and your website is about “myspace layouts”, nobody is really going to be interested in what you have to offer.

Auto-Cross Posting To Twitter

So you don’t have to spend a lot of time posting your articles and links to twitter, you need to download an auto-cross poster. If you are using wordpress there are tons of plug-ins for this. Simply just search Google for an auto-cross poster or for wordpress search “Wordpress To Twitter Plug-in”. What this does is let you configure your site to automatically post headlines of your new articles with a shortened URL/Link back to your article page. These plug-ins use a link shortening service automatically so that you can have more characters to write into your tweet.

Start Posting / Adding Content

Now all you have to do is just simply post your content and with every new article you write, it will be shown on twitter. Depending on your audience and how many twitter followers you have, this will bring you about 100 hits a day with just 2000 followers. (Not everyone will click and go to your article) So this is just my range of hits. With an old news site I was getting 400+ hits a day just from twitter alone with 2000 followers.

All in all, this will help build up your websites popularity while you focus on the SEO and maintenance of  website or blog. If you have any questions or like this method, please leave some feedback.