Twitter is a medium where people can see the ‘real’ you, so first and foremost you can create Twitter posts about your day-to-day life, actions and thoughts. I am not saying that you write a Twitter post every waking moment of your life or every blink, but when something worth tweeting comes up. This something can be humorous, or an insight into your daily life.

These tweets will reveal if you are nuts, or you have something in common with other people. I have found other people on Twitter who also get woken up by their pets nudging them, who can never find a comfortable pair of shoes no matter how hard they try, who prefer reading transcripts rather than watching videos and people who’ve I managed to help when I spot a question I can answer.

So the first thing you should know about Twitter Posting is to look at what people are saying. Yep I am giving you full permission to eavesdrop on people’s conversations! So if you see a Twitter post that you’d like to comment on (even if it’s addressed to someone else with an @)feel free to join in.

As long as you add something of value to a Twitter conversation it doesn’t matter that you ‘butt in’. When you add something of value, these people will thank you and remember you and maybe even follow you back, if they are not already. But at the very least you will have made someone take notice of you.

Try not to tweet a direct link to a salespage (or affiliate link), as this tends to lose you followers. You can be quite creative and get around this by saying ‘Today I have been working on …’, for example, but it is a little frowned upon, unless you are a guru. That’s the great thing about Twitter, you can create your own rules and see how others react.

What I suggest you can do instead is provide is provide direct links to free ebooks, which have your sales links embedded into it, or to squeeze pages where you can also capture an email address before sending on the free ebook. This is basic Internet marketing really - you are using Twitter to get the traffic.

Another thing you can do is write good blog posts, Squidoo lenses, articles, knols, or whatever it might be and give links out to them in Twitter- you can also put links to your salespages in these mediums too, as this deemed acceptable.

By giving some value back to the Twitter world, the world will tweet about it! Word of mouth and Twitter go hand in hand and if you link to something of interest or is controversial, you can expect that link to be twittered and tweeted.

There you have it on this Twitter how to article, the art to writing a good Twitter post. You now know the basics of networking on Twitter, how to insert a link and get away with it, so go write those award winning Twitter Posts. You can learn more about Twitter at http://www.twitter-for-twits.com

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Tip #1: Write about what you know

Visitors to your blog are only interested in your blog if your blog has interesting content. Do you stay intrigued in a website if the content is boring? And what better way to make content more exciting than to add content about a topic you know? If you know a lot about motorcycles, start a block about it. Topics can include changing the carburetor or redoing the chrome on the headlights. If the topic is something you know, your writing will flow more naturally and hence read more naturally to visitors. The content will also be more informative and intelligent.

Tip #2 - Stay on topic

Using the motorcycles, your blog should not stray from motorcycle related issues. Do not start talking about the latest real estate news or golf carts. Talk strictly about motorcycle topics. Google AdSense parses the keywords in your blog and uses those keywords to place ads on your blog that are relevant to the content. The aim is to get visitors to click those ads. You want motorcycle readers to click ads on motorcycle topics. Cross topics, such as mixing motorcycle content with real estate and golf carts will result in ads that cover all three or public service ads that pay nothing. Keeping the topic centric on one topic will result in relevant ads.

Tip #3: Quantity over quality?

This may seem counterintuitive. You want visitors to be interested in your site because the content is great. So quality is important, right? But, in order to get visitors, the quantity of content should be large meaning more keywords detected by search engines, which translates to higher spots in search results, right? Well, yes, they are both right. The ideal situation is a lot of high quality content. Although this is not entirely possible all the time, you must have a high quantity of content on your blog because the more content means the more searchable material from search engines. There is a balance that must be met.

Tip #4: Recycle

No news is good news. No news really means nothing new to post on your blog. You do not necessarily need to keep posting new content. That is the perfect circumstance, but there is also a lot of information available on almost every topic ever written on the Internet. Taking that content, rewording it and posting it on your blog is recycling. It is not actually new content, just recycling old content and making it look new. That takes some writing skill but can be learned after practice. That way, you blog will have the appearance of new material and hopefully keep your visitors coming into the future.

Tip #5: Post on a regular schedule.

Our posts have a schedule written on them, usually an “updated every week” bulletin. And guess what? We stick to it. There may not always be new content for such a posting schedule, so you can use the recycling idea. While a weekly schedule is hard to keep (everyone has a family), when you stick to a schedule, visitors can really on updated blog content, and they will return more frequently to your blog, increasing the likelihood of an AdSense click.

Tip #6: Be clear and simple

This is more of a know you audience concept. If talking about motorcycles, using motorcycle jargon is okay. Make your content understandable. Use easy to understand words, and make the format user friendly. You are talking to a large and varied audience, and it should not require an advanced engineering degree from MIT to read a blog. We have seen highly intelligent people be confused over blogs that contain simple topics because the blog was written in a confusing manner, overly wordy, or weirdly formatted. The goal is to get a click, and having a confusing blog will ensure visitors/clickers will not return.

Tip #7: Keywords, keywords, keywords

Google parses through the blog’s content to not only find relevant ads to put on the blog but also to rank the blog in its search results. If your blog is about motorcycle repair, the keyword set “motorcycle repair” should be mentioned at minimum three times every blog post. Google will see the density of those keywords and associate your blog with motorcycle repair sites and include the blog with other motorcycle repair sites or blog when returning search results. This will drive traffic to your blog.

Tip #8: Check your blog for spelling and grammatical errors

All modern word processing software include spell checkers. Many blog sites, including Blogger.com and Wordpress.com , also have spell checkers. We admit that we are not the best spellers, but considering the availability of spell checking tools, there is no reason to have misspelled words on your blog. Checking for grammar may be more difficult, but if you have questions, copy your blog into a word processing program and run a grammar checker. Then repost the grammatically correct blog. Having bad spelling and poor grammar shows a lack of care for your blog and, quite honestly, stupidity. No one wants to read a blog laden with misspelling and poor grammar.

Tip #9: Multiple blogs

Publishing multiple blogs increasing visitor traffic and AdSense clicks. You do not want to post multiple blogs using the same exact content, but you can publish multiple blogs using recycled content. However, your multiple blogs of the same content should not be on the same blogging site. Publish one on Blogger.com and another on Wordpress.com. Publish a third to another blogging site. And, include a link in each blog to the others. It will increase backlinks to your site, therefore increasing page rank, as well as traffic.

Tip #10: Why should I come back?

Getting one visitor to your site is great. Getting two visitors even better. Getting those two visitors to come back is excellent. You want repeat visitors, because they are more likely to spread the news about your blog, increasing traffic. What does it take to get repeat traffic? How about an RSS feed? Or another subscription list? It takes a combination of the tips mentioned above as well as utilizing other methods mentioned on this site to drive traffic to your blog. Traffic is the only way to get clicks on your AdSense ads, and you want traffic.

Matt Ramirez
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Do Your Blog Visitors Really Read Your Blog?

Bloggers Lab says the answer is no! People aren’t interested in reading web writing; the most they do is scan it? only few % of your blog reader will read your post word to word, rest will just scan the page (read headers) and make their conclusion about the post. People want to gather what they need and move on. It is very likely that they will browse your site while working on project, chatting with some friends on Yahoo or MSN, as a result they need to be able to filter and scan specific information on your site easily; else they will hit that nasty back button. It becomes essential to stop your reader from hitting that back button by making your content scannable.

How to write Scannable Content? Well read on to know.

Check this post Dates on Blog Posts - Should You Have Them? from ProBlogger Blog Tips:

Last week in my post exploring how to make blogs sticky I suggested (in point 14) that one technique to consider is to remove the dates from your blog posts. My theory is that dates can either add to or take away from a post. Let me explore this a little further:

When you put a date on a post you signal to your reader when the post was written. This is useful to readers wanting to make a judgment on how relevant the post is for them at any point of time. It signals to them that a post is current or recent when the date signals that it was written within the last weeks and signals to them that a post could be dated when the date is years back.

The Problem of Dates on Posts

The problem is that when you have a post that is ‘timeless’ (ie it doesn’t really date because the tips you give or the principles that you talk about will always apply) a date can act as a distraction to your reader. They arrive at the post and see that it was written in 2006 and a little warning bell goes off in their mind that what they are reading is not ‘current’.

As I mentioned in last week’s post - I’ve had comments numerous time on ‘old’ posts saying things like “this is old” or “this is out of date” even when the post was anything but out of date.

When a reader has this reaction no matter what your post contains - it’ll seem ‘old’ to them and you lose reader engagement. This might only happen to a small percentage of your readers but over time this adds up.

On the flip side - when a reader arrives on a post that IS recent and sees the date showing this you can actually get a good reaction because they get a sense that what they are reading is the latest thinking that you’ve had.

So dates can be good and bad. They can make a post seem dated or cutting edge.

So What’s a Blogger to Do? Should You Have Dates on Posts?

The key question to ask when it comes to whether or not to include the date of authorship on a post is - ‘is it relevant to the post?’

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Check this post Dates on Blog Posts - Should You Have Them? from ProBlogger Blog Tips:

Last week in my post exploring how to make blogs sticky I suggested (in point 14) that one technique to consider is to remove the dates from your blog posts. My theory is that dates can either add to or take away from a post. Let me explore this a little further:

When you put a date on a post you signal to your reader when the post was written. This is useful to readers wanting to make a judgment on how relevant the post is for them at any point of time. It signals to them that a post is current or recent when the date signals that it was written within the last weeks and signals to them that a post could be dated when the date is years back.

The Problem of Dates on Posts

The problem is that when you have a post that is ‘timeless’ (ie it doesn’t really date because the tips you give or the principles that you talk about will always apply) a date can act as a distraction to your reader. They arrive at the post and see that it was written in 2006 and a little warning bell goes off in their mind that what they are reading is not ‘current’.

As I mentioned in last week’s post - I’ve had comments numerous time on ‘old’ posts saying things like “this is old” or “this is out of date” even when the post was anything but out of date.

When a reader has this reaction no matter what your post contains - it’ll seem ‘old’ to them and you lose reader engagement. This might only happen to a small percentage of your readers but over time this adds up.

On the flip side - when a reader arrives on a post that IS recent and sees the date showing this you can actually get a good reaction because they get a sense that what they are reading is the latest thinking that you’ve had.

So dates can be good and bad. They can make a post seem dated or cutting edge.

So What’s a Blogger to Do? Should You Have Dates on Posts?

The key question to ask when it comes to whether or not to include the date of authorship on a post is - ‘is it relevant to the post?’

Read the rest of this article

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