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?
Was my post worth RTing??
I went on for a couple hours and it hit me… I wasn’t doing anything wrong, I was actually doing almost everything right…Almost!
4 Steps To More Re-Tweets
Good Content
More followers
Engage with your followers
Build a community around your followers
I was writing good content, I was tweeting it out at the best times of the day, I was engaging pretty well, but I was lacking in the community building.
Quick Tip: Best Times To Tweet Are At 4pm – 7:45pm – 11:30pm eastern time
Most bloggers start on twitter and think they can show up a few minutes a day or even worse, they want to schedule all their tweets (big mistake) and think this will drive huge traffic and RTs, when all this will get you is the complete opposite result.
The more attention you give to all 4 steps together every day, then the more traffic and RTs you will get for your blog posts over time. Be There – Be Consistent!
Getting Re-Tweets Is 4 Step Process
You see doing any one of the 4 steps alone is ok, and will get you some traffic and a few RTs but if you are trying to get the most out of twitter and as much traffic back to your blog, then you need to hit all 4 steps combined.
Write good content.
Continue to add new followers each week
Engage with your followers, you need to “be there” to get most out of twitter
Build a strong community around your followers, RT their tweets, engage them, do #FollowFridays etc..
Quick Tip: Follow Fridays is the best and easiest way to get yourself in front a huge amount of people. When you #FF someone, they most likely will #FF you back and all their followers will see that, now multiply that by 5 10 40 people you #FF for… see the potential?
It takes a little time each day to be there and engage with your followers and you will start to see why Twitter is your #1 source for Free Traffic!
Does This 4 Step Plan Work?
Ok talk is cheap…Right?
Let’s see how well I have done following my own advice, and remember I’m not using any “secret software“ or any magic “get more RT’s website” all I do is follow the 4 step plan.
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I know what your thinking, “but JP you have 56,000 followers that’s why you get more RT’s” and in a small way you would be right, but…. I have seen people with the same and even more followers then me and they don’t get that many RT’s, I have also seen people with much less followers then me and they are killin it with RT’s.
The amount of followers you have is a very small piece of the puzzle when it comes to getting your tweets RT’d, so don’t let the fact that you only have 500 or 200 followers stop you from getting the most from twitter.
Twitter can be one of your best free traffic sources if you just use it correctly. All it takes is a little effort and time on the things that matter.
I talk about these steps in more detail and all my other Twitter Marketing advice in my Twitter Dummy Guide.
Connect with me @JohnAguiar
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