I’ve been experimenting with Twitter although I openly admit to being a little sceptical since I personally take little notice of other people’s Twits – most seem to be promoting something or telling me they’re making a cup of coffee!

But today, Mark at Healthy Foods brought something to my attention that really caught my imagination.

This brand new plugin (like most Wordpress addons it’s free) has really opened my eyes to how Twitter can be a real traffic generator. There is an upsell to be fair, which actually is really exciting, but I’ve not gone for it yet. My Homer tendencies had me reaching for the credit card but I’ve got too much else going on right now.

What’s unusual about this plugin is that is does several things. The main part being it should really increase the traffic to your sites due to the viral nature of what it does.

Firstly it automatically posts to Twitter immediately you post to your blog. One job saved.

Secondly, there is a widget that goes on your own blog that immediately shows your latest Twits. Visitors at your site are likely to look at your list of Twits and, if your worth following, will start to follow you.

Thirdly, there’s the upsell. If anyone decides to download the plugin and buy the upsell then you get a share of the commission.

So by simply using a plugin to potentially generate more traffic you could also make some commissions without doing any more promoting at all.

I’ve decided to try to enhance this traffic experiment a little further and you may like to give this a go too.

Anyone posting a comment on Guru-Fodder (at any time) or showing up in my Recent Visitors box will, as always, be visited by me.

What I’ll now do, however, is Twit those blogs / websites so they will get exposure to my followers and perhaps my followers, followers. In addition, the link to those blogs will also show up in My Twitter Feeds on this blog.

So, for a simple comment here you will get two links – one from Twitter and the other from this blog.

Will that lead to more traffic? I can’t answer that but I can tell you – there’ll be no traffic from here if you don’t give it a go since no one will know you’ve visited!

To join just click the link at the bottom of the My Twitter Feed list or take a look at Tweet My Blog.

Looking forward to your comments.

Mark

If you know little about Twitter you’ll find these other resources useful

Ultimate Twitter Resource and Promotional Guide – (Here are the links to my previous Twitter columns: Using Twitter to Increase Readers and Make Friends, Don’t Take Promotional Personal with Twitter, and The Twitter Effect). My series of Twitter entries created quite a bit of buzz, …

Digsby: Get Twitter Followers and Nintendo SP? – Now I have been on Twitter for a little more than 10 months, and I have currently a little over 260 followers. I started actually using Twitter in March, in only five months I have gained 250 followers. How did I do it? …

Relationship Marketing via Twitter – Social networking sites like Twitter have rapidly saturated the Internet landscape and are flourishing. Is your organization capitalizing on this phenomenon? Zappos is using Twitter to connect with job seekers. …

Using Twitter in your Social Media Strategy – For those that aren’t aware, Twitter is a social network that allows ‘friends’ to communicate with each other in brief 140 character bursts of text (known as tweets). You can send these tweets directly through the twitter website, …

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1. Some people watched the video here and couldn’t follow the link to the other videos.

This is what you need – Easy HyperLinks Tutorials

2. Suzie from Abundance Highway asked me about Flock so I’ll put together a video showing how great that browser is for Social Bookmarking and putting your most visited sites into easily accessible toolbar folders.

I hope to get this done for tomorrow.

Mark

I’ve also found the following posts about Squidoo Lenses and Squidoo Links that you’ll find useful

Squidoo Secrets Revealed: Drive Unstoppable Traffic To Your Home … - Use your lens like it’s your blog and link to your home business sites. This is such an easy yet powerful technique. Search engines love Squidoo and so links from a high-ranking lens to your home business site can really boost your … Affiliate Marketing – How To Get Into Page 1 Of Google Using Squidoo - What you can do is to visit other Squidoo lens that have content similar to your lens and write comments on them. Your comments should provide links back to your lens. You should also submit your lens to various social bookmarking sites … How to Use Squidoo to Build Your Page Rank - Well, in order to rank that phrase at the top of the search when someone types “housebreaking German shepherd puppies” into Google, I’ll create a Squidoo site (called lens) that has the same keyword phrase, and link it to my page using … Squidoo : Getting Links To Your Squidoo Pages - Squidoo : Getting Links To Your Squidoo Pages Ok, so now you have a lens with some content, and a YouTube module or two and some Ebay products (that don’t directly compete… SlashDashes submitted by SlashDashes.

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Your links need to be everywhere:

* Comments in blog posts, Squidoo Lenses, Hub Pages etc

* In articles

* On other websites

* In emails you send

* On Social Bookmarking sites

In fact, the more places you can find to leave your links the more traffic your site will receive. It’s a bit like leaving a Business Card everywhere you can.

The challenge is, however, to make your links look enticing enough for someone to click and for the Search Engines to rank because of the relevant content they find at your site.

I’ve made so many mistakes with the html code and bcc code when trying to post comments on Squidoo lenses, blogs and in forums resulting in a pile of junk that leads nowhere. Too late – you can’t edit the blog comment and your chance has gone.

I decided to make my life easier and asked a good friend to create a simple program for me that I could leave open in a tab on my browser and easily create whatever links I need, without thinking about the relevant code.

Take a quick look at this great FREE tool for creating keyword rich easy hyperlinks anchor text from blogs, lenses, forums, in fact anywhere they are allowed

This program is available to everybody – all I ask in return is that you use it to add a link or two to this blog post.

Take a look and if you need help in using it click on the text link at the bottom of the page where you’ll find a great post about Backlinks, a selection of video tutorials plus a link to my complimentary program Easy HyperLinks Cloaker and the e-book How Do You Do, Squidoo.

Here’s the first video tutorial (the quality is better via EasyHyperLinks)

All available to you in return for just one comment link (I won’t make you stop at one!!)

Here’s the link again:

EasyHyperLinks

Hope you like it.

The Anti Hype

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