Getting Niche Related Traffic From Twitter

Using Twitter to drive quality traffic to your niche site is pretty painless and easy to do. While it will not drive a ton of traffic at first, it may down the road the more followers you get.

The first thing you will want to do is to get a Twitter account centered somewhat around your niche name. If comic books is your niche, you may choose a name like comicbookguy or comiccollector. Just make sure it is somewhat related to the niche you are driving traffic to.

Secondly, make sure to add the link to your site in the bio section of your account settings on Twitter.

Third, design an attractive Twitter background and add as much info about your niche and website on the background. Make sure to put your website address in big bold letters on the background as well. If you are graphically challenged, you can user a great program like Customize Twitter to design a very professional background.

Next you will want to hunt down 5 or 6 great blogs or news sources related to your niche. Make sure these sites update regularly and have a RSS feed.

Add these RSS feeds to post automatically to your Twitter account using Twitter Feed. Here is a great tutorial on how to use Twitter Feed. If you have a blog as well, make sure to add your feed as well.

Make sure to check your followers daily and follow back any users that follow you. Over time, you will pick up quite a few followers related to your niche. You will also be driving some traffic to other sites in your niche, but you can use this to your advantage and contact the other sites and try to work out a link trade between you and the other sites.

After you build up some followers, you can also mix in some affiliate link offers into your Tweets two or three times a day.

This is a painless, yet effective way to build up quality surfers without spending a ton of time other than the initial setup. Give it a try, you might be surprised how good it works.

Saturday Around The Web June 20th

OK, Happy Saturday to everyone. I hope your week was as good as mine was. A ton to get to on this Saturday, so here we go:

Google recently launched the discovering the web page that has a ton of useful features.

Twittip is a great blog for getting what else? Tips about using Twitter.

Speaking of Twitter, is there really such thing as a Twitter slap?

An interesting post on how the page rank sculpting uproar may affect blog comments that are no followed. Javascript and iframes may be on the way back to help with this.

Speaking of the nofollow leak, SEOmoz did a Whiteboard Friday video on How Do We Plug the Nofollow Leak?

Matt Cutts discuss the differences between paid link directories like Yahoo and BOTW and regular paid links.

Darren Rowse discusses how simple changes he made with Adsense doubled his revenue. If you have not seen his new ebook yet, it is a must buy.

In case you missed my post early in the week, Google gives notifications with reconsideration requests.

Search Engine Land has a good read on the Impact Of The Internet On Human Behavior.

Wordpress Grammer Spelling Style Missed Words Plugin

Sorry for the late post as I got caught up with some family stuff. Tonight's post will be short and sweet. I came across a great Wordpress plugin that checks spelling, misused words, style and grammar. If you suffer from all of these things as I do, you will find this plugin a godsend.

ETA: ... and right on cue I misspelled the word grammar in the post title. See, I really need this.

Google Now Sending Reconsideration Request Messages

Google Employee, Sagar Kamdar, recently posted a reply in the Google Webmaster Help forum that they are now sending confirmation messages after a reconsideration request was processed for a site review. Although it seems they do not tell you if the site in question was accepted back into the index, at least they tell you if it was reviewed or not. Before you do resubmit, I highly suggest you take a hard look at your site from a Google point of view. this is hard to do sometimes as every one of us thinks that are sites are Google worthy. If it is a very thin site, or the content is not original, odds are you will not be let back in. This is a step in the right direction for Google, though. at least they are making an effort to keep webmasters in the know.

The reconsideration request submission form is here. The site must be included in your Webmaster tools section for it show in the drop down section of the form. If you have some success stories using it, make sure to post a reply to this post.

Linkshare Wordpress Plugin

There is a new Linkshare Merchandiser Wordpress plugin available now so you can list products from Linkshare merchandisers you have a relationship with. Linkshare is free to sign up with and I have used them for years. They pay on time and have a huge selection of products and companies to promote. This plugin would make a great addition to the PHPBay and PHPZon Wordpress plugins.

Certain Linkshare publishers may have hundreds of advertiser relationships to keep up with which can make it very difficult to keep track of vital pieces of Advertiser information like commission terms, contact information, and Premium Partner status.

On Friday, Linkshare released a report called the Consolidated Advertiser Report in the Publisher Dashboard to help with this. This report has information on all of your Advertisers in one place.

Have You Ever Heard Of The Top 10 List By David Letterman?

If you live in the United States and have had a television at one point in your life, you probably have heard of the Top 10 List By David Letterman. It has been an ongoing segment on the Letterman show for ages. Why do they continue to do it? Because it is successful. Many folks will tune in just to watch that one segment.

Top ten list can easily be translated over to any niche as well and makes for a great social bookmark. It is a quick read for surfers and really draws attention. You never know what regular visitor you may pick up when posting a top ten list to your niche site. You can probably do a weekly top 10 to train visitors to come to your site once a week.

The "I did not know that!" factor works the best when using these. Make them witty yet informitate and be sure they are researched and factual. List items that a regular niche user may not know about before they came to your site.

Needing Hubpages Content, Just Look Around Your House

If you are just getting started with Hubpages and unsure where to start with as far as content goes, just look around your house. Any products you purchased lately that you could write a positive review on? Just narrow down a long tail keyword phrase via any of the keyword tools you may have and target the article around it. Throw in some links to the manufacturers product page and mix in some eBay and Amazon ads and you are good to go. You probably have a house full of content just waiting to be written about.