Double Your Blog's Audience With Twitter

by Rick Carbone

Utilizing social marketing with your blog is quickly becoming one of the fastest ways to generate quick targeted traffic. The basic concept is that each time your blog receives a post it automatically creates a tweet to your Twitter account, thereby sending your post to everyone of your followers. If you have a large following you can easily quadruple your posts. If you are an Internet Marketer I'm sure you are already visualizing the possibilities.

In case you didn't know, or you were vacationing on Mars, Twitter is a social bookmarking site that allows the user to create "micro posts" in 140 characters or less to whoever is part of your follower list. Twitter started out as a social media site that most users used to communicate to family and friends, though it is now being used by major corporations and major media outlets to communicate information quickly to their customers or viewers. The best thing about Twitter is you don't need to be a major corporation to use it, in fact you don't even need to be a business.

Home Business owners can easily benefit through this simple process, here's how. Twitter is a great broadcast tool. You can use it to send multiple types of messages to your follower base. This doesn't mean that you can spam your follower base, this will certainly alienate them and they will click to "un-follow" you. However if you utilize your blog with your Twitter account you can be a source of information for your followers.

How is this accomplished? It's a really simple process so I can outline it here. First create your Twitter account and tie it's theme to your blog's theme. The next step is to install a special plug-in to your blog. Go to your plugin's page and click the add a new plugin tab. Search for the "Twitter Tools" plugin, (Make sure it's the free plugin from Alex King.) Install and activate it. You will need to set it up first by using the setting tab. You will now automatically create a tweet each time a post is created on your blog.

In effect each time a post is made everyone on your Twitter follower list is seeing the post with a url back to your blog. This is the true definition of viral marketing and it's done for free, which puts it into the "organic traffic" category.

You can carry the automation a step further by also actively looking for Twitter accounts that are tweeting messages related to your niche that you can automatically follow. This is a bit more advanced and requires some intricate set up. You can get more information at our Twitter Resources website www.Twittasaurus.com

I'm sure that you can see the benefits of Twitter so get yourself an account now. By the way you can follow us, on Twitter, at http://twitter.com/HBRHomeBusiness

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