If you don’t already know I am a big fan of using Twitter to bring traffic to a website. You can use it in so many ways, most of the people on your Twitter followers list are already in the niche are interested in what you are trying to sell or give advice on. Why not use that power?
Last night I attended a live video cast after seeing that Peter Shankman Twitter Skydiver from Helpareporter.com was giving away prizes for answering trivia. Using twitter for sending and answering questions was just brilliant. When I started watching the video cast I sent out a message to the 460 people following me with info about what was going on. One of my followers retweeted this info and had another 5 people from her 800+ list of followers.
Besides being the funniest thing I had seen in a while, no script and anything can happen, heck he even had an impromptu party lol. His co host Brian Shaler was funny just trying to be funny especially when he was the only one on camera. Brian Shaler Twitter
I decided to do a little test and see some results. I have been dying to hook up my computer office LCD to my laptop with the cables I bought a few weeks ago and figured this would be the perfect time. I hooked them up and took a picture of the show being broadcast. I sent Peter a tweet with a link to the picture and he retweeted it. I used the nyfalcon.com addy to upload the picture and placed the tweet using my VinnyfromBrooklyn twitter account.
Checking stats this morning it showed me that by retweeting the message it received 398 hits of which about 50 people actually cropped the url and checked out my site. That is not the good part.
Since I used my Vinny From Brooklyn Twitter Profile
People actually went to the Bio on Twitter and sent another 150 visits to my site Vinny From Brooklyn.
Sure it was not avtually buying traffic but I didn’t really have the time or need to set up perfect landing pages for a campaign like a big company would have. Just a simple test on getting traffic to a site using Twitter. Of course Twitter can be used in many ways, If you think about it I actually borrowed Peters and Brians followers for a few minutes. Almost like sharing an email list to some sorts except it didn’t cost me a dime to actually get visitors to my site. It was all done with viral traffic.
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