Be A Blogging Pro – Top 15 Ways Twitter Can Help

If you have followed me on my blog here or on Twitter @JohnAguiar, then you know I am a BIG believer in Twitter marketing and community building. I have been on Twitter for over a year now it is hard not to see the benefits Twitter can bring to a wanna be blogging pro.

Most people get on Twitter and they start tweeting about their random daily things, like “I had eggs and coffee for breakfast” people really don’t care what your eat..lol or they try to use every one of their 140 characters.

TIP:  people like to read shorter to the point tweets, it also gives them room to RT and comment.

The good news is as you spend more time on Twitter you will slowly become a Tweeting pro, you will start to pay attention to what you say and the best way to say it within your given 140 characters.

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4 Steps To More Twitter Traffic and Re-Tweets

People are always asking me how they can get their tweets re-tweeted and how to drive traffic from twitter. So I wanted to put this post together to give you an overview of how I get more RTs and more traffic

When I first started on Twitter with my @JohnAguiar account, I had the same problem as you, I couldn’t get an RT even with some begging..lol  It took me about 3 months to bring together what I needed to start driving more traffic to my blog and getting more RT’s.

At first I felt I was doing all the things I needed to, writing decent content, I had a decent amount of followers, I was posting to Twitter on a good schedule and yet I was lucky if I got 5 RTs.

Asking Questions

I was questioning everything I was doing…

Do they not like my content?

Did I send out my post to many times?

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Now that Twitter and Facebook fan pages are included in Google search results, I thought I would share with you a few SEO tips to get more SEO push out of your twitter and facebook pages.

These tips apply to both twitter and facebook fan pages and they are simple to do.. and we all like simple..right?  lol

Choose The Best Name and Username

Your name should include one of your keywords, or at least fit your niche. Ex: if you sell dog toys, then choose a name that fits that.

You can also add a keyword to your display name too. I don’t do this because it makes it less personal, but if SEO juice is what you want then keyword your name too.

Use A Actual Website URL

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I been hearing a lot about twitter becoming more and more noisy with sponsored tweets, or advertising tweets.

I can see both sides of this argument and I agree with both sides.. I think..lol

Basically a sponsored tweet is a tweet about a product or service that you are paid to tweet to your followers.

I think this is a great way to advertise real time and reach your target audience. I think the problem most people have is more with the frequency people will post these type of tweets.

If you tweet out helpful, informative, and funny tweets that people like, then a sponsored tweet here and there wont piss people off to much.

Now if you are tweeting 5-10 tweets a day and 4 are sponsored, then yes people will get pissed off and unfollow you.

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<p>It has been 2 weeks since I officially launched Twitter Dummy Guide, so I wanted to share my results and also some things I learned from my first product launch.

This was my first product launch, and I have to say it opened my eyes to a few things.

    1-Launching a product is HARD and takes A LOT of work. I mean I’m not expert at launching a product, but I did spend about a month reading as much as I could on the topic.

    2-The blogging community is awesome and showed great support for a up start blogger like me.

Let’s talk about the hard work, here is just a few things I did to promote Twitter Dummy..

1-Press release sent to about 100 websites.

2-Article sent to about 200 websites.

3-Submitted Twitter Dummy Sales page to over 200 directories.

4-Wrote a sales page

5-Finished ebook and worked on banner ads for affiliates

6-Setup affiliate system for Twitter Dummy

7-Contacted bloggers and marketers to get a JV partnership.

8-Wrote 2 posts to build buzz around twitter marketing

9-Drank more coffee then I thought I ever could

That is a small list of everything I did leading up to and thru out the launch.

Blogging Community Support

Let me start by saying not all bloggers were interested or even liked the guide. But that’s ok, the fact that they answered my email and were nice enough to congratulate me and wish me luck in my launch was pretty damn cool.

Having people that are #1 in the world like ShoeMoney, Darren Rowse, Chris Brogan to reply to my email directly.. and show support was a BIG eye opener. What I will say is work on the email you initially send, I think that is why I had such a great response from people I reached out to.

Bloggers That Were A Big Help

First was Kevin Muldoon at BloggingTips.com  Kevin did a nice Twitter Dummy Review

I have to say Kevin was awesome, answered my questions and even offered me a guest posting slot on BloggingTips.com, Just a str8 up nice guy!

Next was Tyler Cruz at TylerCruz.com  Tyler did a Twitter Dummy Giveaway Contest  connected to his Twitter account, very cool idea. Again another really nice guy that was a great help.

Then we have Robb Sutton at RobbSutton.com  Robb wrote I think the BEST Product Review I ever read..lol  After reading it I was like “Damn I’m Awesome” lol

Robb was a great help and again another nice guy that answered all my questions.

Like I said earlier, not all bloggers replied or were willing to promote Twitter Dummy for their own reasons.

But a nice side benefit  was even though some said no to promoting Twitter Dummy, some did offer me guest post opportunities, and some just acknowledged that they knew who I was and about my blog, from the comments I have left on their blog over past few months.

So that is proof that your “Quality” comments on other blogs do get you noticed.

How Did Twitter Dummy Do

So far I have made 4 sales before the launch and 53 sales after, about 30% of that from a few affiliates.

Now I don’t know how good or bad that is compared to most product launches, but I know for the time and work I have put in I am happy with the results so far, since I don’t have a big list to sell to, my blog is growing but I don’t have 10,000 subscribers to sell to, all I had was hard work and a few blogger relationships to help.

For anyone thinking about launching their own product I say DON’T lol  it’s hard work.

Now if your ok with hard work, long hours, no sleep, then go for it.

In the end you will have your own product to sell for life and no one can take that away from you.

Twitter Money On Twitter

Just wanted to let everyone know that the Twitter Dummy Guide is now available to everyone.

This book comes from my 8 months of hard work and trial and error on what works and what doesn’t work on Twitter.  I have built a Twitter following of over 50,000 using the tips, techniques and common sense how to’s that are in Twitter Dummy.

For Today Only Special 25% off Original Price

As a Thank You to all my Twitter followers I will take 25% of the original price and leave this Special price up until 12 midnight est time.

To read more visit the Twitter Dummy Info page.

Just know that…

1 -  I am NO Twitter expert or Guru… I just found things that have worked for me and few others on Twitter, and that will work for you.

2 – Twitter Dummy will show you how to GET more followers, BUT that is small part.. Twitter Dummy will get into how to KEEP the followers you have and how to build a community around them.

I honestly know that Twitter Dummy will help you get More Followers, More RT’s, More Conversations, and More Traffic To Your Blog or Website!

To read more visit the Twitter Dummy Info page

Reminder: Special price CLOSES at 12 midnight est time

Also if you want to make a BIG 50% Commission on selling Twitter Dummy, I have set up a Affiliate Program that is FREE to join.

To read more visit the Twitter Dummy Affiliate Page

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