How to increase your traffic with Twitter.

So I run a semi automated blog on a certain up coming video game that I'm trying to build up to be a more gray hat site. I had been submitting the posts to social media sites using http://www.OnlyWire.com, building link wheels, doing article submissions, and having unique content being written for it. But traffic wasn't climbing past 20-30 visits a day.

I decided to check out how Twitter can help bring traffic to a blog. After reading quite a few good posts around the forum I set up a Twitter account under the name of the blog and put an avatar related to the niche.

Then I used http://twitterfeed.com/ to have my RSS from the blog directly tweeted on to Twitter.

I then had to find a way to mass follow people in hopes of them following me back. Once again I searched BHW and came across Pyrogenic Media's Phoenix Twitter Desktop app which allows you to manage multiple Twitter accounts and mass follow people after entering a certain keyword as well as auto update the accounts tweets from a list.

One trick I learned while reading around the forums was to remove anyone you are following that isn't following you within 24 hours of adding them. The reason for this I think is so your account doesn't stand to far out as a spammer if you are following 20k+ people and only have 1k following you it's going to look fishy. What I did was use an auto unfollowing web app. http://www.refollow.com/refollow/index.html It's pretty simple to use.

Then just the past 2 days I've only followed about 1k people and have 128 following me back and an extra 100 hits to my blog of 100% targeted leads.

_Austin

nice post i never thought of that idea to remove people in 24hrs makes sense

Nice, been looking into getting some twitter traffic too. Do you automatically tweet your posts or are you doing regular tweets manually?

ladansenoire said:

Nice, been looking into getting some twitter traffic too. Do you automatically tweet your posts or are you doing regular tweets manually?

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I used http://twitterfeed.com/ to have my RSS from the blog directly tweeted
on to Twitter.

_Austin

good share mate. you can also make load of accs and add away. twitter traffic is shit though

badd said:

good share mate. you can also make load of accs and add away. twitter traffic is shit though

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Thanks, yeah I've been noticing that the traffic isn't that great any more. I
all it is now is mostly spammers following other spammers just spamming each
other with their ads. But you can still find the occasional real user of the
service and depending on your website or product he could be worth a lot!

_Austin

Ok so I have a movies site, And I have never used Twitter
I signed up for the site, because I'm desperate for ways to get traffic to my site. Any help on how I would get traffic from twitter with a movie site?

Thanks, Kody

_Austin said:

Thanks, yeah I've been noticing that the traffic isn't that great any more. I
all it is now is mostly spammers following other spammers just spamming each
other with their ads. But you can still find the occasional real user of the
service and depending on your website or product he could be worth a lot!

_Austin

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I'm not currently engaged in Twitter Follower (Whoring? Err...) Gathering, but when I was, I generally filtered spam-bots out by using something like "philosophy -http" I did this to filter out the bots taht use http and it greatly reduced the number that popped up, although the occasionaly few did follow through.

_Austin said:

One trick I learned while reading around the forums was to remove anyone you are following that isn't following you within 24 hours of adding them. The reason for this I think is so your account doesn't stand to far out as a spammer if you are following 20k+ people and only have 1k following you it's going to look fishy. What I did was use an auto unfollowing web app. http://www.refollow.com/refollow/index.html It's pretty simple to use.

_Austin

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Twitter will prevent you from following 20k+ people if you only have 1k following you. Once your account is following 2k people Twitter will begin to throttle your account until you reach 2k followers.

Nice will have a look into it thanks.

Kiner24 said:

Ok so I have a movies site, And I have never used Twitter
I signed up for the site, because I'm desperate for ways to get traffic to my site. Any help on how I would get traffic from twitter with a movie site?

Thanks, Kody

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What kind of video site?

You could make an account and add people using that follower I posted you
would just enter the niches as keywords to search for followers. Then you
can just update the account with your latest videos and site news.

Jekashi said:

I'm not currently engaged in Twitter Follower (Whoring? Err...) Gathering, but when I was, I generally filtered spam-bots out by using something like "philosophy -http" I did this to filter out the bots taht use http and it greatly reduced the number that popped up, although the occasionaly few did follow through.

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Where did you use "-http", is that when you enter keyword searches for followers?

NG Resonance said:

Twitter will prevent you from following 20k+ people if you only have 1k following you. Once your account is following 2k people Twitter will begin to throttle your account until you reach 2k followers.

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Ok, cool, I didn't know that, thanks!

Austin do you have AIM or Skype?

Right now i putting your method on one of my webpage. I report results in few days Thanks for tip

yeah they are cracking down on the fake emails
looks like you actually gotta use real ones now
grrrrr

Kiner24 said:

Austin do you have AIM or Skype?

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Yes I do Kiner, it's in my profile.

andariels said:

Right now i putting your method on one of my webpage. I report results in few days Thanks for tip

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Awesome, keep me updated, I gotten an extra 300 visits so far.

nataliepetrov said:

yeah they are cracking down on the fake emails
looks like you actually gotta use real ones now
grrrrr

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It's not that big of a deal, just create a quick email for that domain and you
should be golden. I don't even change IP addresses but that's probably a
mistake on my part.

_Austin

Hello. I got few new visitor cca 10 per day from twitter. I have cca 500 followers i think is to low. But Phoenix Twitter Desktop is not working for me. Software write that "100 people added" but in real i have follow 0 people. Do you have some tips for another software? I try to search but unlucky. I Believe that works great but i have to low number of followers. I also follow people around niche my website that people are interestet to my tweets. Thanks for tips

But getting targeted traffic from twitter is a major problem for me..We can get good hits but all seems to be a junk for me!!!!

badd said:

good share mate. you can also make load of accs and add away. twitter traffic is shit though

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I think also from my experience that twitter traffic is shit. But, more traffic more fun

from 7 days I have a new twitter acc, with twitter feed have my Autoblog RSS , I have 2500 tweets till now , and 800 followers in less than one week , I think in less than one month I will have 4K followers "God will"
Auto send message to followers by using tweetlater.com

i tried to do that, but i didnt recive any visit to my blog from twitter