Twitter is one of the best traffic sources for many bloggers.
Are you searching for the best tips to get more traffic to your blog by using Twitter?
The importance of social media marketing has kept on increasing. Bloggers nowadays try to drive more social media traffic to their blogs. Twitter is one of the best social networking sites, and many people love to tweet daily. It is necessary to drive traffic to your blog from all the possible sources. If you want to increase social media traffic, you’ll definitely need to drive more traffic from Twitter to your blogs.
Blogging success can’t be achieved without good social media traffic. Twitter has millions of active users, and that’s why you may definitely want more and more people to tweet your blog posts to their followers.
Is getting traffic from Twitter easy?
Ah! Nothing can be achieved easily.
You need to be active, creative and at the same time, you need to connect with more and more people on Twitter. In this post, I’ll mention 8 tips that will help you get more traffic from Twitter.
Update – This post was originally published in 2015. New tips were added in 2021. More tips will be added in the future as we want you to drive more and more traffic from Twitter to your blogs and websites.
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How to Get More Traffic from Twitter? Know the Best Tips
1. Increase the Number of Twitter Followers
The most important thing that you need to do to get more traffic from Twitter is to increase the number of followers you have on Twitter. You can’t expect to get a lot of traffic from Twitter just by having 500 followers, but if the number of followers becomes 50,000, you can definitely expect to get a lot of traffic to your blogs from Twitter.
You need to connect with real people regularly as then only your followers on Twitter will increase. One thing that you can do to connect with more people on Twitter is that you can follow other bloggers on Twitter. At the same time, you can retweet the tweets of others, and you should also try to appreciate the good tweets done by the people followed by you.
2. Short Tweets and Quotes Can be Useful
Sometimes short sentences containing fewer words can be more powerful than longer ones. This is what you need to understand for driving more traffic from Twitter.
I’ve seen few bloggers having a good number of followers who often use short tweets to promote their blog posts. You just need to be creative, as well as you always need to tweet about something which can be interesting for your followers.
You need to generate curiosity, which can be only done by using short creative tweets with powerful words.
Another thing that you can do to get more retweets is you can make use of Quotes while sharing your blog posts. Some people really like Quotes, and if your Quote is interesting or motivating, they may definitely decide to retweet it to their Twitter followers.
3. Mention People in your Tweets
If your tweets are not noticed by your followers, you can definitely start mentioning people in your tweets.
You can quickly mention anyone in your tweet by tweeting with ‘@username‘. Here the username should be of the person you want to mention in your tweet.
Mentions are recommended because people mentioned in the tweets get notified about them. People you have mentioned in your tweets may decide to retweet the tweet, but if they don’t, then you shouldn’t get disappointed.
Mentions may also help you build new contacts at Twitter, which may automatically increase your followers on Twitter.
4. Make Use of Hashtags
Hashtags won’t only help you in getting maximum traffic from Google Plus, but at the same time, they’re beneficial at Twitter too. You can use the related hashtags, and you can also try to include the trending hashtags to get more exposure for your tweets.
5. Include Images in Your Tweets
An easy thing that you can do to attract people to your tweets is to upload images in some of your tweets. By attaching suitable and eye-catching photographs in your tweets, you may definitely be able to get more exposure than you did before.
You should always try to use images that people will tend to click without thinking much. If you’re good at designing software like Photoshop and Illustrator, you can definitely try to make some images for your tweets.
6. Tweet Button at the Top and Bottom of Blog Posts
Nowadays, sharing buttons have almost become a necessity. If you want to get more social shares, you definitely need to properly position the sharing buttons. I’ll recommend you have the sharing buttons at the top and at the bottoms of the blog posts. By making the sharing buttons more visible, you may be able to definitely get many more shares than you did before.
7. Schedule Your Tweets Properly
Are you tweeting at the wrong time?
Tweeting at the right time is necessary for getting maximum traffic from Twitter.
If you tweet when most of your Twitter followers are sleeping, your efforts will definitely go in vain. By tweeting at the right time, your tweets will get more exposure, and you’ll be able to get better results. Some tools can help you in scheduling your tweets at the right time.
8. Join Triberr
If you’re ready to give more time for social media marketing, then you should immediately join Triberr too. At Triberr, you’ll be able to connect with a group of bloggers who’re interested in a niche similar to yours.
Bloggers who’re a part of the Triberr group you have joined may visit your blog post and leave a comment and retweet your blog posts to their followers.
Many bloggers’ve been able to maximize their Twitter traffic by using Triberr. This is the reason which may make you get active at Triberr immediately.
Additional New Tips to get Maximum Traffic from Twitter
- Use Creative Images.
- Take part in contests.
- Be active in the #WritersCommunity.
- Participate in #Writerslife.
- Make a circle mentioning the people with whom you regularly interact on Twitter.
- Make use of a Toon-style image of yourself or a very unique, stylish image that can create a good influence on the people in your niche.
- Post regular updates in Stories.
- Post threads regularly to get the maximum likes and retweets. Informative threads may help you to get huge success on Twitter. Make sure to cover all the crucial points while writing on a particular topic as then only you’ll be able to attract more people to your thread. Also, reply to all the people responding to your threads to get maximum interaction on Twitter.
I hope that the tips mentioned in this blog post will help you get more traffic from Twitter. You won’t be able to drive a lot of traffic just by being active for a week or month. But, if you’ll stay proactive for a few months or a year, then you’ll definitely get success in driving a lot of traffic from Twitter.
