While you may not agree with this “tactic,” if your goal is to grow your site traffic it’s just another idea right up there with guest posting.
Use TweepML to follow a list of people with interests you believe mirror your own or those of your readers. For example, I recently followed this list of #BlogChat participants.
A large percentage followed me back within 24 hours and they are an engaging group as well. My Twitter stream took on a new personality for the day. I then watched the spike in blog traffic because as you might expect bloggers like to look at other blogs. Based upon other similar lists I’ve followed much of that traffic will convert to long-term growth.
The key to having success with this method is the link you include in your Twitter profile. Please don’t under estimate the value of both the link and the actual text you choose for your profile.
Any ideas for growing blog traffic you’d like to share? Comments are open as always.
Whether you’re one of the folks who just use Twitter as a very personal vehicle to develop a small number of relationships, or a small to medium-sized business who wants to conscientiously create meaningful relationships with potential customers, this is a cool tool. Unfortunately I’m sure the (#%@^) spammers who build accounts to thousands and thousands of followers to peddle their junk have also discovered it.
Like all tools and technology they can be used for “good’ or “evil” (both of which are somewhat in the eye of the beholder). I am sure there are those who would say that what I’ve described above is not authentic. While I’ll disagree it doesn’t change their perception that I’m in the “evil” column with this tactic. – Just sharing what works, that’s what I do here at JimRaffel.com 🙂