Web 2.0 property Twitter has produced a media storm this year with a plethora of subject gurus integrating Twitter on their podcasts , and marketing experts saying that you can use Twitter to create hundreds of followers , the interest in Twitter is at a record peak . You probably know people who are on Twitter and suppliers may have invited you to join them on Twitter . That brings us neatly to my point . What are YOU doing about it for yourself?
A lot of people, actually I think most, don’t even “get” Twitter. And that’s partly because it can be many different things to almost as many people. And to some extent, they may even be all true, at least to that person.
Regardless of how you feel about Twitter personally, there are some great strategies you should consider and there’s a great FREE training video about that at http://www.TrafficHug.com/twittervideo/ but whatever you do, you should be doing something. The smallest benefit will be extra chances for impressions , ideally with some way of people finding you by your keyword, or your name. Some people will just try to type your name on Twitter and see if you come up.
In other articles we talk about how to get noticed for your keyword and how to manage your account for targeted conversion (also covered well in that free video I mentioned earlier) but let’s do something we can do right now.
Some business owners think of Twitter traffic as an internal channel of Twitter itself . A concept most Twitter directories also foster. But with Twitter , the advantages of having your regular traffic join you on Twitter are huge . So beneficial that we need to do something about it .
The easiest thing is to add a Twitter “badge” to your web properties . It’s simply a graphic saying who you are on Twitter with a hyperlink to your Twitter identity. In the videos I mentioned , you’ll discover a lot more , but a badge will start us off in a good direction .
WHERE CAN I GET MY BADGE ?
You can get your own customised Twitter badge for zilcho from this site ;
http://www.TwitterDominator.com/followme_badges.php – FollowMe Twitter Badge .
You paste the HTML in to your site.
You can also paste the pure HTML in to most blog widgets. I’ve put one on all my blogs.
The Twitter badge is sealed in its own HTML DIV so should reside fine almost anywhere.
If you create a table or div tag to position it in , then you can just paste the code in verbatim . With WYSIWYG html editors, there is usually an HTML “object” box you can place in the desired location and just place the code in to that. Adobe Dreamweaver users can just insert an AP Layer (from the insert menu) and then paste the code in to that using the HTML code view pane.
Once you’ve placed your badge, you can smile in the knowledge you have taken the right action, and before most of your competitors
